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Rank |
Author/Editor | Title |
Year |
1 |
J R R Tolkien | Lord Of the Rings Trilogy |
1954 |
2 |
J K Rowling | Harry Potter Series |
1997 |
3 |
J R R Tolkien | The Hobbit |
1937 |
4 |
George R R Martin | A Song of Ice & Fire |
1996 |
5 |
Robert Jordan | Wheel of Time Series |
1990 |
6 |
C S Lewis | The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe [S2] |
1950 |
7 |
Terry Goodkind | Wizard's First Rule [S1] |
1994 |
8 |
David Eddings | The Belgariad Series |
1982 |
9 |
Philip Pullman | Northern Lights (Golden Compass) [S1] |
1995 |
10 |
Stephen King | The Stand |
1978 |
11 |
George Orwell | Animal Farm |
1945 |
12 |
Terry Pratchett | The Colour of Magic [S1] |
1983 |
13 |
Terry Brooks | The Sword of Shannara [S1] |
1977 |
14 |
Richard Adams | Watership Down |
1972 |
15 |
Raymond E Feist | Magician [S1] |
1982 |
16 |
Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle In Time |
1962 |
17 |
Ursula K Le Guin | A Wizard of Earthsea [S1] |
1968 |
18 |
Mitch Albom | The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
2003 |
19 |
Stephen King | The Gunslinger [S1] |
1982 |
20 |
Neil Gaiman | American Gods |
2001 |
21 |
R A Salvatore | Dark Elf Trilogy |
1990 |
22 |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Mists Of Avalon |
1983 |
23 |
Piers Anthony | On a Pale Horse [S1] |
1983 |
24 |
Gaiman & Pratchett | Good Omens |
1990 |
25 |
William Goldman | The Princess Bride |
1973 |
26 |
Dianna Gabaldon | Outlander [S1] |
1992 |
27 |
Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted |
1997 |
28 |
Robin Hobb | The Farseer Trilogy |
1995 |
29 |
Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife |
2003 |
30 |
Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere |
1997 |
31 |
Brian Jacques | Redwall [S1] |
1986 |
32 |
Stephen Donaldson | Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever |
1977 |
33 |
Roger Zelazny | Nine Princes in Amber [S1] |
1970 |
34 |
Bram Stoker | Dracula |
1897 |
35 |
Anne McCaffrey | Dragonflight [S1] |
1968 |
36 |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
1967 |
37 |
Garth Nix | Sabriel [S1] |
1995 |
38 |
Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland |
1865 |
39 |
T H White | The Once & Future King |
1958 |
40 |
Tad Williams | Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series |
1988 |
41 |
Daniel Quinn | Ishmael |
1992 |
42 |
Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
1818 |
43 |
Laurell K Hamilton | Guilty Pleasures [S1] |
1993 |
44 |
C S Lewis | The Screwtape Letters |
1942 |
45 |
Steven Erikson | Gardens of the Moon [S1] |
1994 |
46 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery | The Little Prince |
1943 |
47 |
Michael Moorcock | Elric of Melnibone [S1] |
1972 |
48 |
Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
2004 |
49 |
Moore & Gibbons | Watchmen |
1987 |
50 |
William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
1600 |
51 |
Weis & Hickman | Death Gate Cycle |
1990 |
52 |
Jostein Gaarder | Sophie's World |
1991 |
53 |
Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana |
1990 |
54 |
Mercedes Lackey | Magic's Pawn [S1] |
1989 |
55 |
Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis |
1915 |
56 |
Lloyd Alexander | The Chronicles of Prydain |
1964 |
57 |
Patrick Suskind | Perfume |
1986 |
58 |
China Mieville | Perdido Street Station |
2000 |
59 |
L Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz |
1900 |
60 |
Ray Bradbury | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
1962 |
61 |
Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
1891 |
62 |
David Gemmell | Legend [S1] |
1984 |
63 |
Frank Miller | Batman - The Dark Knight Returns |
1986 |
64 |
Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita |
1966 |
65 |
Gene Wolfe | Book of the New Sun |
1980 |
66 |
L E Modesitt Jr | The Magic of Recluce [S1] |
1991 |
67 |
Robert E Howard | [C] Coming Of Conan the Cimmerian |
1933 |
68 |
Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
1972 |
69 |
Jacqueline Carey | Kushiel's Dart [S1] |
2001 |
70 |
H P Lovecraft | [C] Bloodcurdling Tales |
1937 |
71 |
Glen Cook | The Black Company [S1] |
1984 |
72 |
Clive Barker | Weaveworld |
1987 |
73 |
Haruki Murakami | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
1994 |
74 |
Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair [S1] |
2002 |
75 |
Susan Cooper | The Dark Is Rising [S1] |
1973 |
76 |
Robert A Heinlein | Glory Road |
1963 |
77 |
Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol |
1843 |
78 |
Orson Scott Card | Seventh Son [S1] |
1987 |
79 |
Mary Stewart | The Crystal Cave [S1] |
1970 |
80 |
Richard Matheson | I Am Legend |
1954 |
81 |
Robin McKinley | The Blue Sword [S1] |
1982 |
82 |
William S Burroughs | Naked Lunch |
1959 |
83 |
Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House |
1959 |
84 |
Peter S Beagle | The Last Unicorn |
1968 |
85 |
Steven Brust | Jhereg |
1983 |
86 |
Jack Vance | The Dying Earth |
1950 |
87 |
Melanie Rawn | Dragon Prince Trilogy |
1988 |
88 |
Edwin A Abbott | Flatland |
1884 |
89 |
Robin McKinley | Beauty |
1978 |
90 |
Barry Hughart | Bridge Of Birds |
1984 |
91 |
Kenneth Grahame | The Wind In the Willows |
1908 |
92 |
Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court |
1889 |
93 |
Guy Gavriel Kay | The Lions Of Al-Rassan |
1995 |
94 |
Ken Grimwood | Replay |
1987 |
95 |
Astrid Lindgren | The Brothers Lionheart |
1973 |
96 |
Robert Lynn Asprin | [A] Thieves World Anthologies |
1979 |
97 |
John Crowley | Little, Big |
1981 |
98 |
John Fowles | The Magus |
1965 |
99 |
Gregory Maguire | Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister |
1999 |
100 |
Patricia A McKillip | The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld |
1975 |
[S1] First book in a series; [C] Single-author collection; [A] Multiple author anthology