 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £0.01 beyond criticism.
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 | The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 mythology of middle-earth.
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 | The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.01 the finding of the ring.
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 | The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.03 the only other work that suffers comparison to Tolkien in terms of greatness.
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 | The Darkness That Comes Before: Prince of Nothing, Book 1 by R.Scott Bakker
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 intelligent, political fantasy with invented languages. Book 1. Heavily influenced by Dune.
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 | The Warrior-Prophet: Prince of Nothing, Book 2 by R.Scott Bakker
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.22 Book 2.
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 | The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three by R. Scott Bakker
Buy used from: £2.12 Book 3.
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 | The Broken Sword (Fantasy Masterworks) by Poul Anderson
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.99 dark fantasy based on norse mythology.
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 | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.91 politically enlightened and endlessly inventive.
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 | The Scar by China Mieville
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.90 as good as P.S.S.
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 | The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer by Brian Bates
Buy used from: £1.47 a christian monk tries to convert an anglo-saxon sorcerer and is himself converted to paganism.
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 | Time and the Gods Six Story Anthology (Featuring A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder) by Lord Dunsany
Buy new: £6.91 / Used from: £8.60 a feast of words. inspired Lovecraft's early work.
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 | Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.86 a forgotten treasure. oddly reminiscent of gormenghast...
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 | The History Of The Runestaff by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.94 probably the best of the eternal champion series.
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 | Orcs: Bodyguard of Lightening, Legion of Thunder, Warriors of the Tempest: "Bodyguard of Lightning", " Legion of Thunder", " Warriors of the Tempest" (Gollancz S.F.) by Stan Nicholls
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 light but entertaining.
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 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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 | Dune (Hodder Great Reads) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 this will make you want to read all the Dune books. Original fantasy with invented languages.
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 | The Mark Of The Beast And Other Fantastical Tales (Fantasy Masterworks) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.00 supernatural tales of India.
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 | The Return of Tarzan: Vol 2 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Buy used from: £0.01 the second tarzan adventure.
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 | The First Book of Lankhmar (Fantasy Masterworks) by Fritz Leiber
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £1.96 much under-rated. brilliantly witty and imaginative.
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 | The Second Book Of Lankhmar (Fantasy Masterworks) by Fritz Leiber
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.49 as above.
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 | City of Hawks (No. 2) by E. Gary Gygax
Buy used from: £3.14 not brilliantly written but very imaginative and strangely addictive. don't miss Gord the Rogue if you like fast-moving fantasy. Read this one first.
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