 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £2.19 Probably the best contemporary fantasy series. Start with this one, then read the rest of the Ice and Fire books.
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 | Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur (A Novel of Arthur: The Warlord Chronicles) by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £4.51 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant retelling of the King Arthur legend.
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 | The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy used from: £0.37 Could be called the original epic fantasy. Full of heroic deeds and imaginary monsters.
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £11.99 Tokien's masterpiece. Enough said.
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 | Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy - Book 1) by Robin Hobb
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.01 The first in an original and interesting series.
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 | Nobody's Son by Sean Stewart
Buy used from: £0.90 Overlooked too often. Imaginative twist on the traditional fantasy story.
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 | Legends: Discworld, Pern, Song of Ice and Fire, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Wheel of Time
Buy used from: £0.01 Nice to see some shorter fantasy stories. The Burning Man by Tad Williams stood out for me.
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 | The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
Buy new: £5.62 / Used from: £3.19 Better than Homer, in my opinion.
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 | The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow & Thorn) by Tad Williams
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is one of the highest quality fantasy series out there.
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 | The Metamorphoses: a New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.99 More fantastical than either the Odyssey or the Aeneid.
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