 | Daggerspell (Deverry) by Katharine Kerr
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.19 A hugely imaginative twist on the celtic epic, flawed but engaging characters and lots of tragedy, a great series
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 | The Never-ending Story (Puffin Books) by Michael Ende
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £0.01 Forget the movie (which left out the moral of the story!), this is quite simply a timeless masterpiece and contains in its opening chapter one of the most touching descriptions of why books are great!
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 | Riddle Master by Patricia A. McKillip
Buy new: £9.20 / Used from: £2.65 All three of McKillip's classic Riddlemaster novels brought together in one volume. If pushed to choose my favourite series I think this would have to come out top.
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 | The Forgotton Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
Buy used from: £0.01 Beautiful, elegant prose infused with faery - a strange and wonderful delight
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £7.19 Well you can't venture into fantasy without reading this!
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 | The Sword of Shannara (The Shannara series) by Terry Brooks
Buy used from: £0.01 a complete ripoff from Tolkien but a rollicking good read all the same! I'm including it as it was one of my first ever fantasy reads
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 | The Earthsea Quartet: "A Wizard Of Earthsea"; "The Tombs of Atuan"; "The Farthest Shore"; "Tehanu" (Puffin Books) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £3.55 this is one of those series you simply have to read if you're at all interested in fantasy!
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 | The Sorceress and the Cygnet (Pan fantasy) by Patricia A. McKillip
Buy used from: £0.01 to read McKillip is like stumbling into the faery realm, or falling into a Burne-Jones painting, never more so than here. Enchanting
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 | The Mists of Avalon (Mists of Avalon 1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £2.86 if you think you think you know Arthurian legend by heart, then try this and see that world revealed from a whole new Pro-Celtic perspective in a truly remarkable novel
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 | The Táin: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge: From the Irish Epic "Tain Bo Cuailnge"
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.02 Thomas Kinsella's wonderful interpretation of the ancient Irish oral epic. Myth doesn't come any more colourful, violent or weird than this!
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £7.99 Of the trilogy the first volume, Northern Lights, is my favourite. Ostensibly 'childrens' fiction, this deals with VERY big issues that few adult novels dare tackle. Intelligent and thought provoking
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 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.51 darkly imaginative take on fairytales replete with Carter's lucious prose - several of the stories inspired the movie The Company of Wolves
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 | Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.96 if The Bloody Chamber delighted you then why not try all her short fiction. Trust me it doesn't disappoint though it may give you nightmares!
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 while this is not fantasy is the traditional sense, this philosophical mystery tale has enough strangeness and surrealness within to file under Fantastic
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 | The Colour of Magic: The First Discworld Novel (A Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 well when the battle at Helm's Deep leaves you quaking in your boots, it's good to have some light relief to turn to!
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 | Rider at the Gate by C.J. Cherryh
Buy used from: £1.44 The strange world of Finesterre where beasts called Nighthorses are addicted to human minds and are the only thing that make it possible for humans to survive there at all
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