Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (New Accents)

Rosemary Jackson

Fantasy Fiction: An Introduction (Literary Genres)

Lucie Armitt

The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Ursula K. Le Guin

Rhetorics of Fantasy

Farah Mendlesohn

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

Wizard of the Crow

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

Lois McMaster Bujold

Swordspoint (Riverside, #1)

Ellen Kushner

Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Robin Hobb

Mama Day

Gloria Naylor

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

George R.R. Martin

King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1)

Kate Elliott

Arrows of the Queen (Heralds of Valdemar, #1)

Mercedes Lackey

The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)

Tad Williams

Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)

Raymond E. Feist

The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)

Robin McKinley

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)

Terry Goodkind

The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1)

Terry Pratchett

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

Terry Brooks

Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)

Michael Moorcock

The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)

Patricia A. McKillip

Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

Richard Adams

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)

Roger Zelazny

Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)

Anne McCaffrey

A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)

Madeleine L'Engle

Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)

Susan Cooper

Night Watch (Discworld, #29)

Terry Pratchett