Definitive List of Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That You May or May Not Want to Read After You Read the Books on the Previous Page or If You Are Really Bored (According To Us)

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High Fantasy

The Dragonlance Saga (Books 1-3) -- Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
A Game of Thrones -- George R. R. Martin
The Legend of Huma -- (Richard Knaak?)
The Gunslinger -- Stephen King
The Fionavar Tapestry -- Guy Gavriel Kay
The Books of Swords -- Fred Saberhagen
The Wheel of Time -- Robert Jordan

General Fantasy

The Deryni Chronicles -- Katherine Kurtz
The Innkeeper's Song -- Peter S. Beagle
Nobody's Son -- Sean Stewart
The Book of Merlin -- T. H. White
The Drawing of the Dark -- Tim Powers
The Landover Series -- Terry Brooks
The Shadow of the Torturer -- Gene Wolfe

Comic Fantasy

The Xanth Series (Books 1-6) -- Piers Anthony
Good Omens -- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Expecting Someone Taller -- Tom Holt

Science Fantasy

The Split Infinity Series (Books 1-3) -- Piers Anthony
The Incarnations of Immortality (Books 4-?) -- Piers Anthony
The Split Infinity Series (Books 4-?) -- Piers Anthony

Hard Science Fiction

The Mars Series -- Kim Stanley Robinson

General Science Fiction

Eon, Eternity -- Greg Bear
Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula Le Guin
Timescape -- Gregory Benford
Farenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
Slow River -- Nicola Griffith
Moving Mars -- Greg Bear
Stand on Zanzibar -- John Brunner
Downbelow Station -- C.J. Cherryh
I, Robot (screenplay) -- Harlan Ellison
Lucifer's Hammer -- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Postman -- David Brin
Starship Troopers -- Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
The Armageddon Blues -- Daniel Keys Moran
Across Realtime -- Vernor Vinge
Look to Windward -- Ian Banks
Slant -- Greg Bear
Inversions -- Iain M. Banks
Shadow of the Hegemon -- Orson Scott Card
The Difference Engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Cold Cash War - Robert Asprin
Promised Land -- Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice
Battlefield Earth -- L. Ron Hubbard (Pages 1-400, 800-End, )
Illuminatus -- Robert Anton Wilson
Icehenge -- Kim Stanley Robinson

Comic Science Fiction

The Road to Mars -- Eric Idle
Head Crash -- Bruce Bethke

Cyberpunk

Virtual Light -- William Gibson (Didn't Finish)

Collections/Short Stories/Novellas

The Best of Japanese Science Fiction Stories -- John Apostolou and Martin Greenberg, eds.

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