25 To-Read Classics

1. Of mice and men – John Steinbeck
2. The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
3. The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Cannery Row – john Steinbeck
5. Animal Farm -  George Orwell
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  – Mark Twain
7. Dracula – Bram Stoker
8. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
9. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
10. James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
11. The Hounds of Baskerville – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Sir Ernest Hemingway
13. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
14. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
15. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
16. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
17. Don Quixote – Cervantes
18. Guliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
19. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
20. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
21. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
23. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
24. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
25. To kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Top 25 Fantasy Books

The Top 25 Fantasy Books list selects from a wide range of fantasy, from epic fantasy to detective fantasy, from well known series to obscure Fantasy, and from old fantasy books to brand new fantasy releases.

#1:   A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)

#2:   The Malazan Book of the Fallen (Steven Erikson)

#3:   The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)

#4:   Tigana (Guy Gaveriel Kay)

#5:   Lord of the Rings (J.R.R Tolkien)

#6:   The First Law (Joe Abercrombie)

#7:   The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)

#8:   The Farseer (Robin Hobb)

#9:   The Darkness That Comes Before (R. Scott Bakker)

#10:   Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock)

#11:   Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)

#12:   His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)

#13:   Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)

#14:   Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (Stephen R. Donaldson)

#15:   American Gods (Neil Gaiman)

#16:   Earthsea Cycle (Ursula Le Guin)

#17:   Abhorsen Trilogy (Garth Nix)

#18:   A Sword of Shadows (J.V. Jones)

#19:   Memory, Sorrow, Thorn (Tad Williams)

#20:   Acacia (David Anthony Durham)

#21:   Magician: Apprentice and Magician (Raymond E. Feist)

#22:   Heroes Die (Matthew Woodring Stover )

#23:   The Dark Tower (Stephen King)

#24:   Dresden Files (Jim Butcher)

#25:   Amber Chronicles (Roger Zelazny)

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