 | Phantastes: A Faerie Romance by George MacDonald
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £6.63 I have gathered a list of books that have been published over the last 100 or so years, primarily because most of the lists I have seen tend to list the same books.
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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 The first three books in this list were first published in the late 1800s and early 1900s...
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 | The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
Buy used from: £5.50 ...They all had an influence on Tolkien and Lewis...
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 | The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.01 ...Speaking of which this is where many consider fantasy to have begun...
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £3.71 / Used from: £0.01 ...If Tolkien isn't the most famous and influential fantasy author then it's probably Lewis.
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 | A Wizard of Earthsea (Puffin Books) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 Le Guin, one of the early women fantasy writers...
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 | Over Sea, Under Stone (Puffin Books) by Susan Cooper
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £0.01 ...Followed by Cooper who seems to be one of the few authors writing good fantasy in the Seventies...
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 | Magician (Riftwar saga) by Raymond E. Feist
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 ...But look what the Eighties brought...
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 | The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 ...It set the groundwork for the 90's, one of the most prolific decades for quality fantasy writing.
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 | Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Well there you have it. There are loads of exiting fantasy writers around today,so check them out. However there are alot of authors that have been unfairly forgotten by time so spare a thought.
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