 | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: "Lord Foul's Bane", "Illearth War" and "Power That Preserves" (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £2.53 Absolute brilliance - a very intense trilogy. Everybody should be forced to read this.
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 | The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: "Wounded Land", "One Tree" and "White Gold Wielder" by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £10.55 / Used from: £4.89 A fantastic, intelligent writer. Very dark and very thought provoking.
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 | Legend by David Gemmell
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.96 A great British author and if you are starting to explore classic heroic fantasy you really couldn't do better than giving this a go.
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 | Waylander II: In The Realm of the Wolf (Waylander) by David Gemmell
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.48 Great book, part of the Drenai series which deserves credit.
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 | Morningstar by David Gemmell
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.30 A classic, stand-alone story. One of the very first Fantasy novels I ever read back when I was a gawky teenager. A great book to start out on.
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 | The Mists of Avalon (Mists of Avalon 1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.49 Epic epic epic. I love this book. It is part of a larger series which I haven't yet read.
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 | Eragon (Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.19 OK its more for the kids but respect is due. Can't believe was written by a 15 year old!
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 | Wizard's First Rule: Book 1: The Sword Of Truth Series: Wizard's First Rule Bk.1 (The Sword of Truth) by Terry Goodkind
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.01 Another smashing read. It is part of a much larger series which sadly totally loses it in the last few books but this first one works brilliantly as a stand alone novel.
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 | Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first of a great trilogy, it has giant ants in it. What more could you possibly want?
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 | The Real Story (Gap) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy used from: £0.01 The first of a truly grand series by the mighty Donaldson. Harsh stuff but utterly compelling.
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.40 I couldn't leave this one out.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £17.49 / Used from: £15.00 Super Duper lovely books. OK the last one goes a bit Revelations but I can forgive that.
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 | The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.95 Seen the film? This is the book it was based on. It rocks.
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 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.14 / Used from: £0.01 I have a hankering for the occassional Potter, I must admit. Can't be bothered to list all of them here but anyway, this was always my favourite.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £0.01 Very clever writing, big thumbs up.
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 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.68 The first of a very gripping, epic, earthy series of novels - 'A song of Ice and Fire'
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 | The Dark Is Rising Sequence: "Over Sea, Under Stone"; The "Dark Is Rising"; "Greenwitch"; The "Grey King"; "Silver O" (Puffin Books) by Susan Cooper
Buy new: £9.69 / Used from: £5.35 I am on book four of this series at the moment and I wish that I had discovered this series sooner! I would have loved this as a child and I still think it is a good read now.
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 | The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
Buy used from: £4.58 Not as cheesy and saccharine as you might imagine from the title, I found it surprisingly dark and grown up, and wonderfully descriptive
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