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Fantasy

Best Fantasy BooksTom Shippey's Top 12 Fantasy Books

C. S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength (1945)

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings (1954–5)

T. H. White

The Once and Future King (1958)

Avram Davidson

The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

Stephen R. Donaldson

Lord Foul's Bane (1977)

Ursula Le Guin

Earthsea Quartet (1968–90)

Diana Wynne Jones

Fire and Hemlock (1984)

Michael Shea

In Yana, the Touch of Undying (1985)

Jack Vance

Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl (1985)

Lyon Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt

The Intrepid Enchanter (published in the USA as The Complete Compleat Enchanter) (1989)

Michael Swanwick

The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)

George R. R. Martin

A Game of Thrones (1996)