I just finished a day long research project. Someone on facebook linked to a sort of quiz thingy about how many of these 100 great fantasy books have you read? Well, I looked and I'd only read 27 of them! So, since we've been looking for more material to listen to as audiobooks, I took that list of 100 books and crossreferenced it to the Audible.com website and put all the ones they had of that list that I hadn't read into my wish list. (At least, the ones that the blurb sounded OK on and the listener reviews weren't too bad) And then (not wanting to pay when I could have it for free) checked my library's downloadable and CD audiobook sites and will be able to get about ten of them from the library. Eventually.
Here's the list:
1. The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
2. The Fellowship of the Ring- J.R.R. Tolkien
3. A Game of Thrones- George R.R. Martin
4. Gardens of the Moon -Steven Erikson
5. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
6. Titus Groan - Marvin Peake
7. The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
8. The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson
9. Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb
10. The Warded Man - Peter V. Brett
11. Black Sun Rising - C. S. Friedman
12. The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
13. The Magicians - Less Grossman
14. A Cavern of Black Ice - J.V. Jones
15. Acacia - David Anthony Durham
16. The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker
17. Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
18. Lord Foul’s Bane - Stephen R. Donaldson
19. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
20. Sabriel - Garth Nix
21. The Dragonbone Chair - Tad Williams
22. Redwall - Brian Jacques
23. The Way of Shadows - Brent Weeks
24. Magicican: Apprentice - Raymond Feist
25. Welcome to the Jungle - Jim Butcher
26. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
27. Wizard’s First Rule - Terry Goodkind
28. The Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin
29. Homeland - R.A. Salvatore
30. Dragon Wing - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
31. Grendel - John Gardner
32. The Gunslinger - Stephen King
33. Seventh Son - Orson Scott Card
34. The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
35. Watership Down - Richard Adams
36. Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
37. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
38. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
39. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
40. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. Dracula - Bram Stoker
44. The Odyssey - Homer
45. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
46. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
47. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
48. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
49. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Howl’s Moving Castles - Diana Wynne Jones
52. Legend - David Gemmell
53. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
54. Green Rider - Kristen Britain
55. Lamb - Christopher Moore
56. Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
57. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
58. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
59. Glory Road - Robert A. Heinlein
60. The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
61. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
62. The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
63. Imajica - Clive Barker
64. Time and Again - Jack Finney
65. The Misenchanted Sword - Lawrence Watt-Evans
66. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
67. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
68. Stellar Wind 2012 - Catherine Barber
69. The Black Company - Glen Cook
70. Another Fine Myth - Robert Lynn Aspirin
71. The Deception - R.A. Knowlton
72. Pyromancer - Dan Callender
73. Vulnerable - Amy Lane
74. The Pox Party - M.T. Anderson
75. The Innocent Mage - Karen Miller
76. Magyk - Angie Sage
77. The Phoenix and the Sword - Robert E. Howard
78. The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick
79. Arrows of the Queen - Mercedes Lackey
80. The Magician’s Guild - Trudi Canavan
81. Magic Bites - Ilona Andrews
82. The Sum of All Men - David Farland
83. Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
84. Pawn of Prophecy - David Eddings
85. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
86. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
87. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
88. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
89. Beowulf - Unknown
90. Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
91. Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
92. Dragon Prince - Melanie Rawn
93. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
94. Sheepfarmer’s Daughter - Elizabeth Moon
95. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
96. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
97. Beauty - Robin McKinley
98. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Marakami
99. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
100. Boy’s Life - Robert McCammon
How many have you read?