fantasy prior to the 1970s before Del Rey publishing ruined the genre with their "formula for success”
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last updated July, 2026
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Travel Light
Naomi Mitchison
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
Mervyn Peake
The Three Impostors
Arthur Machen
Phantastes
George MacDonald
Undine
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
The Shrinking Man
Richard Matheson
Avalon
Anya Seton
The Wood Beyond the World
William Morris
Jurgen (The Biography of Manuel, #7)
James Branch Cabell
The Broken Sword
Poul Anderson
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany
Lud-in-the-Mist
Hope Mirrlees
Mistress of Mistresses
E.R. Eddison
On the Marble Cliffs
Ernst Jünger
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis
The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)
Lloyd Alexander
The Worm Ouroboros
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
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