Fantasy

Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17
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Horror is recognized as a separate genre, but I don't read enough of it to make a separate notebook for it worthwhile. Things are different with science fiction.

I've spun off the list of recommendations into a separate page.

To read, fantasy and horror:
• Ben Aaronovitch
  • False Value
  • What Abigail Did That Summer
• Lynn Abbey, Rifkind's Challenge
• Chelsea Abdullah, The Stardust Thief
• Daniel Abraham
  • The Dragon's Path
  • A Shadow in Summer
• Richard Adams, Shardik
• Saladin Ahmed, Engraved on the Eye
• Robert Aickman, The Wine-Dark Sea
• Joan Aiken, The Cockatrice Boys
• Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
• Poul Anderson, Midsummer Tempest
• Kim Antieau, The Jigsaw Woman
• Jennifer Armintrout, Blood Ties
• Sarah Ash, Lord of Snow and Shadows
• Camille Bacon-Smith
  • Eye of the Daemon
  • The Face of Time
• Kage Baker
  • Dark Mondays
  • Mother Aegypt and Other Stories
  • Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
• Wayne Barlowe, God's Demon
• Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist
• Peter S. Beagle
  • A Fine and Private Place
  • Folk of the Air
  • Garden of Earthly Delights
  • Giant Bones
  • I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
  • The Innkeeper's Song
  • The Line Between: Stories
  • Mirror Kingdoms: The Best Of
  • Tamsin
  • We Never Talk about My Brother
• Amelia Beamer, The Loving Dead
• Elizabeth Bear
  • Book of Iron
  • The Chains That You Refuse
  • The Lotus Kingdoms
    2. The Red-Stained Wings
  • The Promethean Age
    1. Blood and Iron
    2. Whiskey and Water
    3. Ink and Steel
    4. Hell and Earth
  • Seven for a Secret
  • Shoggoths in Bloom
• Greg Bear
  • Sleepside
  • Songs of Earth and Power
• Bradley P. Beaulieu, The Winds of Khalakovo
• Alex Bell, The Ninth Circle
• R. J. Bennett, Foundryside
• Lauren Beukes
  • Afterland
  • Bridge
  • Zoo City
• Laura Bickle, Mercury Retrograde
• Holly Black
  • Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
  • The White Cat
• Levi Black, Red Right Hand
• Katherine Blake (pseud. of Dorothy J. Heydt), The Interior Life
• James P. Blaylock
  • All the Bells on Earth
  • The Digging Leviathan
  • Homunculus
  • Land of Dreams
  • Lord Kelvin's Machine
  • Night Relics
  • The Paper Grail
• Hannes Bok, Beyond the Golden Stair
• Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero, The Book of Imaginary Beings
• Len Boswell, The Cave of the Six Arrows
• Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire
• Lila Bowen, Conspiracy of Ravens
• Richard Bowes, Minions of the Moon
• Elizabeth Boyer, The Elves and the Otterskin
• Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
• Marie Brennan
  • Driftwood
  • In London's Shadow: An Onyx Court Omnibus
• Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon
• Patricia Briggs, Hob's Bargain
• Kristen Britain, Mirror Sight
• John Brown, Servant of a Dark God
• S. G. Browne, Breathers; A Zombie's Lament
• John Brunner, The Compleat Traveller in Black
• Steven Brust
  • Agyar
  • The Viscount of Adrilankha
    1. The Paths of the Dead
    2. The Lord of Castle Black
  • the Vlad Taltos books, in order
    • Taltos
    • Phoenix
    • Athyra
    • Orca
    • Dragon
  • Brokendown Palace
• Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity [Which I've seen stocked as non-fiction]
• Emma Bull
  • Bonedance
  • Finder
  • Territory
• James A. Burton, Powers
• Barbara Nye Byfield
  • The Glass Harmonica [=The Book of Wierd {sic?}]
  • The Man Who Made Gold [=Andrew and the Alchemist]
• P. D. Cacek, Canyons
• Alan Campbell, Scar Night
• Ramsey Campbell
  • Ghosts and Grisly Things
  • The Hungry Moon
• Mike / M. R. Carey
  • Someone Like Me
  • The Steel Seraglio
• A. A. Carr, Eye Killers
• Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
• Jonathan Carroll, White Apples
• S. A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold
• H. O. Charles, City of Blaze
• C. J. Cherryh
  • Faery in Shadow
  • The Goblin Mirror
  • The Morgaine stories: Gate of Ivrel, Well of Shiuan, Fires of Azeroth, Exile's Gate
• M. Lucie Chin, Fairy of Ku-She
• Deborah Christian, Kar Kalim
• Michael Cisco, The San Veneficio Canon
• Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories
• Jo Clayton, The Diadem Saga [= Diadem from the Stars, Lamarchos, and Irsud]
• B. W. [=Brenda] Clough
  • The Crystal Crown
  • The Name of the Sun
  • The Realm Beneath
  • Suburban Gods [= How Like a God + Doors of Death and Life]
• Deborah Coates, Strange Country
• Nancy Collins, Sunglasses After Dark
• Harry Connolly
  • Child of Fire
  • One Man
• Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir
• Dana Copithorne, The Steam Magnate
• John Crowley
  • Aegypt
  • Beasts
  • Engine Summer
  • Little, Big
• Leah R. Cutter, Paper Mage
• Roald Dahl, Kiss Kiss
• Brian Daley
  • A Tapestry of Magics
  • Starfollowers of Coramonde
• Kara Dalkey
  • Bhagavati
  • Euryale
  • The Nightingale
  • Steel Rose
  • A Sword Named Sorrow
  • Uguisu (The Nightingale)
• Richard Dansky, Firefly Rain
• John Darnielle, Universal Harvester
• Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  2. The Lady of the Sorrows
  3. The Battle of Evernight
• Avram Davidson
  • Jackleg
  • The Other Nineteenth Century
  • The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone
  • Ursus of Ultima Thule
  • What Strange Stars and Skies
• Avram Davidson and Grantia Davis, Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty
• Aliette de Boddard, Teh House of Shattered Wings
• Mark Del Franco, Unshapely Things
• Charles de Lint
  • Dreams Underfoot
  • Forests of the Heart
  • The Ivory and the Horn
  • Moonlight and Vines
  • Someplace to Be Flying
• A. M. Dellamonica, Indio Springs
• Alan DeNiro, Total Oblivion, More or Less [Author's self-presentation]
• Susan Dennard, Truthwitch
• Graham Diamond, Samarkand and Samarkand Dawn
• Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine
• David Drake, Lord of the Isles
• Dave Duncan, A Man of His Word
• David Anthony Durham, Acacia
• Marina and Sergey Daychenko, Via Nostra
• Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld
• E. R. Eddison
  • Mistress of Mistresses
  • The Worm Ouroboros
• Phyllis Eisenstein, In the Red Lord's Reach
• Kate Elliott, Spirit Gate et seq. [Review by Liz Bourke]
• S. L. Farrell, A Magic of Twilight
• Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!
• Charles G. Finney
  • The Ghosts of Manacle
  • The Magician Out of Manchuria
  • The Old China Hands [Nonfiction]
  • The Unholy City
• John M. Ford
  • Aspects
  • From the End of the Twentieth Century
  • Heat of Fusion
• Diana Pharaoh Francis
  • Bitter Night
  • Blood Winter
  • Path of Fate, Path of Honor, Path of Blood
• Teresa Frohock, Miserere: An Autumn Tale
• Lorna Freeman, Covenants
• C. S. Friedman, Black Sun Rising
• Esther Friesner
  • Child of the Eagle: A Myth of Rome
  • Mustapha and his Wise Dog
  • Spells of Mortal Weaving
  • Wishing Season
  • The Witchwood Cradle
• Gregory Frost, Shadowbridge
• Neil Gaiman
  • Anasi Boys
  • Coraline
  • The Graveyard Book
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane
  • Neverwhere
  • Smoke and Mirrors
  • Stardust
• R. Garcia y Robertson, Firebird
• Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
• Randall Garrett, The Steel of Raithskar et seq.
• Richard Gavin, Omens
• Patricia Geary
  • Living in Ether
  • Strange Toys
• Mary Gentle
  • 1610: A Sundial in a Grave
  • The Architecture of Desire
  • The Black Opera
  • The Book of Ash
    3. The Wild Machines
    4. Lost Burgundy
  • A Hawk in Silver
  • Ilario
  • Left to His Own Devices
  • Scholars and Soldiers
• Felix Gilman, Gears of the City
• Greer Ilene Gilman
  • Moonwise
  • Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
• Laura Anne Gilman
  • Flesh and Fire
  • Silver on the Road
• Max Gladstone
  • Last Exit
  • Craft Sequence
    4. Last First Snow
    5. Four Roads Cross
• Lisa Goldstein
  • Dark Cities Underground
  • The Dream Years
  • Travellers in Magic
  • Summer King, Winter Fool
  • Walking the Labyrinth
• Carol Goodman, The Disinvited Guest
• Angelica Gorodischer
  • Kalpa Imperial
  • Trafalgar
• Theodora Goss
  • The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
  • The Complete Enchantments
• Kathryn Grant
  1. The Phoenix Bells
  2. The Black Jade Road
  3. The Willow Garden
• Kelley Grant, Desert Rising
• Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels: Or, the Resurrection of Matthew Swift
• Todd Grimson, Brand New Cherry Flavor
• Austin Grossman, Crooked
• Kerstin Hall, The Border Keeper
• Karina Halle, Darkhouse
• Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
• Duncan M. Hamilton, Dragonslayer
• Elizabeth Hand
  • Glimmering
  • A Haunting on the Hill
  • Last Summer at Mars Hill
  • Mortal Love
• M. L. N. Hanover, Black Sun's Daughter
• Thomas Harlan, The Shadow of Ararat
• M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
• Rick Hautala, Night Stone
• Erica Hayes, Shadowfae
• Robin Hobb
  • Ship of Magic
  • The Rain Wilds Chronicles
    1. Dragon Keeper
    2. Dragon Haven
    3. City of Dragons
    4. Blood of Dragons
  • The Soldier Son Trilogy
    1. Shaman's Crossing
    2. Forest Mage
    3. Renegade's Magic
• P. C. Hodgell, Honor's Paradox
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • A Fistful of Sky
  • Permeable Borders [Review by Jo Walton]
  • A Red Heart of Memories
  • The Silent Strength of Stones
  • The Thread that Binds the Bones
• Robert Holdstock
  • Ancient Echoes
  • Earthwind
  • Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
  • The Hollowing
• Madeline Howard, The Hidden Stars
• Tanya Huff
  • Blood Price
  • Wizard of the Grove
• Stephen Hunt
  • The Court of the Air
  • The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
• Kameron Hurley
  2. The Empire Ascendant
  3. The Broken Heavens
• James Hynes, Publish and Perish
• Alexander C. Irvine, The Narrows
• M. R. James, Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
• N. K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
• Kij Johnson
  • At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
  • The Fox Woman
• Diana Wynne Jones
  • Archer's Goon
  • Chrestomanci Quartet
  • The Dalemark Quartet
  • Dogsbody
  • Fire and Hemlock
  • The Homeward Bounders
  • The Merlin Conspiracy
  • The Ogre Downstairs
  • The Time of the Ghost
  • Unexpected Magic
  • Year of the Griffin
• Howard Andrew Jones
  • For the Killing of Kings
  • Waters of Eternity
• J. V. Jones
  The Book of Words
  • A Sword of Shadows
    3. A Sword from Red Ice
    4. Watcher of the Dead
    5. Endlords
• Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
• Graham Joyce, Some Kind of Fairy Tale
• Kel Kade, Fate of the Fallen
• Richard Kadrey
  • Angel Scene/Teeth and Tongue Landscape
  • Sandman Slim
• Kirsten Imani Kasai, Ice Song
• Guy Gavriel Kay
  • A Song for Arbonne
  • The Fionavar Tapestry
    1. The Summer Tree
    2. The Wandering Fire
    3. The Darkest Road
  • The Last Light of the Sun
  • River of Stars
  • The Sarantine Mosaic: Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors
  • Tigana
  • Under Heaven
• Julie Kenner, Tainted
• Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
• Jack Ketchum, Red
• Greg Keyes
  2. The Charnel Prince
  3. The Blood Knight
  4. The Born Queen
• Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Khorasan Archives
  3. The Blue Eye
  4. The Bladebone
• Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • Alabaster
  • Silk
  • Murder of Angels [Sequel to Silk]
  • Low Red Moon [Sequel to the excellent Threshold]
  • Tales of Pain and Wonder
  • To Charles Fort, with Love
  • The Drowning Girl
  • Two Worlds and In Between
• Stephen King
  • Bag of Bones
  • Duma Key
  • Insominia
  • Lisey's Story
  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes
  • Revival
  • Rose Madder
• Mindy L. Klasky
  • Season of Sacrifice
  • Glasswright
    2. The Glasswrights' Progress
    3. The Glasswrights' Journeyman
    4. The Glasswrights' Test
    5. The Glasswrights' Master
• Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
• Kathe Koja
  • Bad Brains
  • Extremities
• Nancy Kress, Briar Rose
• Ellen Kushner
  • The Fall of the Kings
  • The Privilege of the Sword
  • Thomas the Rhymer
• R. A. Lafferty, The Devil Is Dead
• Sarah Langan, Audrey's Door
• Marc Laidlaw, The 37th Mandala
• Jay Lake, Trial of Flowers
• Sarah Langan, Audrey's Door
• A. R. Larkwood, The Thousand Eyes
• Jeanne Larsen, Silk Road
• Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower
• Guenevere Lee, Orope, the White Snake
• Vernon Lee, The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
• Tanith Lee [I'm not sure why I keep trying...]
  • Heart Beast
  • Kill the Dead
  • Sabella, or, the Blood Stone
• Guenevere Lee, Orope, the White Snake
• Ursula Le Guin
  • Annals of the Western Shore
    1. Gifts
    2. Voices
    3. Powers
  • Lavinia
  • Malafrena
  • The Other Wind
  • Orisian Tales
  • Searoad
  • Tales of Earthsea
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters
• Fritz Leiber, Swords and Deviltry (et seq.)
• Stina Leicht, Of Blood and Honey
• Megan Lindholm, The Reindeer People
• Jane Lindskold
  • Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
  • Child of a Rainless Year
  • Legends Walking
  • Thirteen Orphans
  • When the Gods Are Silent
• Kelly Link
  • Stranger Things Happen
  • Magic for Beginners
• Holly Lisle, Hawkspar
• Anne Logston
  • Exile
  • Firewalk
  • Shadow
  • Shadow Hunt
  • Waterdance
  • Wild Blood
• Anne Lyle, The Alchemist of Souls
• Scott Lynch
  4. The Thorn of Emberlain
  5. The Ministry of Necessity
  6. The Mage and the Master Spy
  7. Inherit the Night
• Elizabeth A. Lynn
  • Dragon's Treasure
  • Watchtower
  • Dancers of Arun
  • The Northern Girl
• Jenn Lyons, The Ruin of Kings
• R. A. MacAvoy
  • The Belly of the Wolf
  • The Book of Kells
  • Damiano's Lute
  • Death and Resurrection
  • The Grey Horse
  • The Third Eagle
• Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan
• Ian R. MacLeod
  • The Light Ages
  • The House of Storms
• Violette Malan, The Mirror Prince
• Kip Manley, City of Roses
• Michael Marano, Dawn Song
• Juliet Marillier
  • Foxmask
  • Wolfskin
  • Den of Wolves
• George R. R. Martin
  • A Dance with Dragons
  • Fevre Dream
• A. Lee Martinez, Monster
• Graham Masterton, A Terrible Beauty
• Anne McCaffery (ed.), Alchemy and Academe
• Robert McCammon, Swan Song
• J. M. McDermott, Last Dragon
• Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
• Seanan McGuire
  • Every Heart a Doorway
  • Sparrow Hill Road
  • Rosemary and Rue
• Chandler McGrew, The Darkening
• Patricia McKillip
  • Dreams of Distant Shores
  • Harrowing the Dragon
  • Kingfisher
  • Something Rich and Strange
  • The Throme of the Erril of Sherril
  • Wonders of the Invisible World
• Robin McKinley
  • Beauty
  • Chalice
  • Dragonhaven
  • A Knot in the Grain
  • The Outlaws of Sherwood
  • Pegasus
  • Rose Daughter
  • Shadows
  • Spindle's End
• Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister
• Sean McMullen, Voyage of the Shadowmoon
• Richelle Mead, Dark Swan
  1. Storm Born
  2. Thorn Queen
  3. Iron Crowned
  4. Shadow Heir
• E. J. Mellow, Song of the Forever Rains
• George Meredith, The Shaving of Shagpat
• A. Merritt, The Ship of Ishtar
• Meyrink, The Golem
• China Mieville
  • The City and the City
  • Iron Council
  • King Rat
  • Kraken [Thanks to Henry Farrell for a copy]
  • Perdido Street Station
  • The Scar
  • Un Lun Dun
• A. A. Milne, Once On a Time
• David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi (ed.), Twenty Epics
• Christopher Moore
  • Bite Me
  • A Dirty Job
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
  • Sacré Bleu
  • Secondhand Souls
  • You Suck
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things
• Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
• Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
• William Morris
  • The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • The Wood Beyond the World
• James Morrow, Bible Stories for Adults
• Ilana C. Myer, Last Song Before Night
• Linda Nagata, The Wild
• Vera Nazarian
  • Cobweb Bride
  • Dreams of the Compass Rose
  • Lords of Rainbow
  • The Duke in his Castle
• Rachel Neumeier, House of Shadows
• Adam Nevill, Apartment 16
• Emma Newman, Between Two Thorns
• Kim Newman
  • Bad Dreams
  • The Quorum
• Garth Nix
  • Lirael
  • Abhorsen
• Naomi Novik
  • Uprooted
  • A Deadly Education
• Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child
• Joyce Carol Oates, Bellefleur
• Stewart O'Nan, The Night Country
• Rebecca Ore, Slow Funeral
• Shannon Page and Jay Lake, Our Lady of the Islands
• Michael Paine, The Night School
• Susan Palwick, The Necessary Beggar
• Alexei and Cory Panshin, Earth Magic
• Jason Pargin, If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe
• Paul Park
  2. The Tourmaline
  3. The White Tyger
  4. The Hidden World
• J. K. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
• Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast Trilogy
• Helen Phillips, The Need
• Holly Phillips
  • The Engine's Child
  • In the Palace of Repose
• Tom Piccirilli, The Night Class
• Meredith Anne Pierce
  • The Darkangel, Gathering of Gargoyles, The Pearl of the Soul of the World
  • The Firebringer, Dark Moon, The Son of Summer Stars
  • The Woman Who Loved Reindeer
• Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
• Tim Powers
  • The Anubis Gates
  • The Drawing of the Dark
  • Earthquake Weather
  • Expiration Date
  • Last Call
  • On Stranger Tides
  • The Stress of Her Regard
  • Three Days to Never
• Terry Pratchett
  • Eric
  • I Shall Wear Midnight
  • The Last Continent
  • Moving Pictures
  • Raising Steam
  • Snuff
  • Unseen Academicals
  • Wintersmith
• Tim Pratt
  • Little Gods
  • Spell Games
  • The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl [Recommended by David Moles]
• E. Hoffman Price
  • The Devil Wives of Li-Fong
  • The Jade Enchantress
• T. A. Price, Poison Sleep
• Cherie Priest
  • Bloodshot
  • Dreadful Skin
  • Fathom
  • Those Who Went Remain There Still
  • "Clockwork Centry" series
    1. Boneshaker
    2. Dreadnaught
  • "Eden Moore" series
    2. Wings to the Kingdom
    3. Not Flesh Nor Feathers
• Philip Pullman
  • The Amber Spyglass
  • Lyra's Oxford
• Melonie Purcell, Hand and Talon
• Cat Rambo, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight
• S. M. Reine, The Descent
• Laura Resnick, Disappearing Nightly
• Kat Richardson
  • Downpour
  • Seawitch
• Morgan Rice, A Quest of Heroes
• Sile Rice, The Saxon Tapestry
• Phil Rickman
  • Chalice
  • Candlelight
  • Writing as Will Kingdom
    • The Cold Calling
    • Mean Spirit
• K. Arsenault Rivera, "Their Bright Ascendancy" trilogy
  1. The Tiger's Daughter
  2. The Phoenx Empress
  3. The Warrior Moon
• Jennifer Roberson, "Tiger and Del"
  2. Sword-Singer
• Madeline E. Robins, The Stone War
• Benjamin Rosenbaum, The Ant King, and Other Stories
• Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
• Diana Rowland, Touch of the Demon
• Nilajana Roy, The Hundred Names of Darkness
• Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
• Michelle Sagara/Michelle West/Michelle Sagara West
  • Chronicles of Elantra
    • Cast in Sorrow
    • Cast in Flame
    • Cast in Honor
  • The Hidden City
  • Into the Dark Lands
  • Silence
  • The Sun Sword
    1. The Broken Crown
    2. The Uncrowned King
• Lilith Saintcrow
  • Dante Valentine
  • The Iron Wyrm Affair
  • Jill Kismet
  • Moon's Knight
• Charles Saunders, Imaro II
• Graydon Saunders, Safely You Deliver
• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas
  • The Harem of Aman Akbar
  • The Healer's War
  • Last Refuge
  • Nothing Sacred
• Courtney Schafer, The Whitefire Crossing
• V. E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
• Ekaterina Sedia
  • The Alchemy of Stone
  • The Secret History of Moscow
• Darren Shan, The Procession of the Dead
• Michael Shea
  • Nifft the Lean and The Mines of Behomoth
  • Polyphemus
  • A Quest for Simbilis
  • Tomorrow's Men
  • In Yana, the Touch of Undying
• Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove
• Joseph Sherman
  • The Shining Falcon
  • The Horse of Flame
• Frances Sherwood, Book of Splendor
• Will Shetterly
  • Dogland
  • Gospel of the Knife
  • Nevernever
  • The Tangled Lands
• Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
  • Double Feature
  • (eds.) Liavek et seq.
• Michael Shevdon, Sixty-One Nails
• Susan Shwartz
  • (ed.) Arabesques
  • (ed.) Arabesques 2
  • Byzantium's Crown
  • Cross and Crescent
  • The Grail of Hearts
  • Silk Roads and Shadows
• Dan Simmons
  • Lovedeath
  • Summer of Night
• Mary Sisson, The Weirld
• Clark Ashton Smith, A Rendezvous in Averoigne
• Jeri Smith-Ready, Wicked Game
• Midori Snyder
  • Beldan's Fire
  • Innamorati
  • New Moon
  • Sadar's Keep
• Monique Snyman, Dark Country
• Alexandra Sokoloff
  • The Price
  • The Unseen
• Wen Spencer, Tinker
• William Browning Spencer
  • Irrational Fears
  • The Ocean and All Its Devices
  • Resume with Monsters
• Nancy Springer
  • Chance, and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate
  • Fair Peril
  • Metal Angel
    The Book of Isle:
    1. The White Hart
    2. The Silver Sun
    3. The Sable Moon
    4. The Black Beast
• Brian Stableford, Curse of the Coral Bride
• Caroline Stevermer
  • A Scholar of Magics
  • The Serpent's Egg
• Sean Stewart
  • Galveston
  • Resurrection Man
• Peter Straub
  • A Dark Matter
  • If You Could See Me Now
  • Julia
• Matthew Sturges, Midwinter
• Tasha Suri, Empire of Sand
• Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War
• Michael Swanwick
  • The Dragons of Babel
  • Jack Faust
• Ciatlin Sweet
  • The Door in the Mountain
  • Telling of Stars
• Sam Sykes, Seven Blades in Black
• Sonya Taafe, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens
• Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
• Molly Tanzer, Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp
• Judith Tarr
  • Alamut
  • Arrows of the Sun
  • The Dagger and the Cross
  • The Hall of the Mountain King
  • Pillar of Fire
  • Spear of Heaven
  • A Wind in Cairo
• Doyce Testerman, Hidden Things
• Ian Tregillis
  • Bitter Seeds
  • The Alchemy Wars
    2. The Rising
    3. The Liberation
• Lisa Tuttle, The Mysteries
• Michael R. Underwood et al., Born to the Blade
• Catherynne M. Valente
  • A Dirge for Prester John
    1. The Habitation of the Blessed
    2. The Folded World
  • Apocrypha
  • Deathless
  • Fairyland series
    1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    2. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
  • The Grass-Cutting Sword
  • A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
  • The Labyrinth
  • Oracles
  • The Orphan's Tales
    2. In the Cities of Coin and Spice
  • Palimpsest
  • This Is My Letter to the World
  • Under in the Mere
  • Ventriloquism
  • Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
• Anne and Jeff VanderMeer
  • (eds.), The New Weird
  • (eds.), Fast Ships, Black Sails
  • Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
• Jeff VanderMeer
  • City of Saints and Madmen
  • Finch
  • Veniss Underground
• Vivian Vande Velde, User Unfriendly
• Greg Van Eekhout, California Bones
• Sydney Van Scyoc, Drowntide
• Carrie Vaughn
  • Kitty Steals the Show
  • Kitty's Greatest Hits
  • Steel
  • Discord's Apple
  • Voices of Dragons
• K. S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro
• Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
• Evangeline Walton, Prince of Annwn
• Jo Walton
  • Among Others [Self-presentation]
  • Lifelode
  • Thessaly
    2. The Philosopher Kings
    3. Necessity
  • Tooth and Claw
  • Walton's version of the Matter of Britain:
    1. The King's Peace
    2. The King's Name
    3. The Prize in the Game
• Freda Warrington, Elfland
• Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Gini
• Patrick Weekes, The Paladin Caper
• Martha Wells
  • Edge of Worlds
  • Emile and the Hollow World
  • Stories of the Raksura (2 vols)
  • Witch King
• T. H. White, The Once and the Future King
• Kit Whitfield
  • Benighted
  • In Great Waters
• Deborah Wilde, The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
• Conrad Williams
  • Decay Inevitable
  • Use Once, Then Destroy
  • The Unblemished
• Jen Williams, Winnowing Flame trilogy
  2. The Bitter Twins
  3. The Poison Song
• Liz Williams
  • "Detective Inspector Chen" series [detective novels set in a mildly futuristic, franchised Singapore, where the traditional Chinese afterlife is is entirely real, and thoroughly integrated into the mundane bureaucracy.]
    • The Demon and the City
    • Precious Dragon
    • The Shadow Pavillion
  • Nine Layers of Sky
  • Worldsoul
• Tad Williams
  • War of the Flowers
  • Shadowmarch
  • Shadowplay
• Walter Jon Williams, sequel to City on Fire, if it ever appears
• Chris Willrich
  2. The Silk Map
  3. The Chart of Tomorrows
• G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
• Terri Windling, The Woodwife
• Carol Wolf, The Summoning
• Gene Wolfe
  • Peace
  • The Knight
  • The Wizard
• Jonathan Wood, No Hero
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbo
  • Ariosto
  • Blood Games
  • Sins of Omission
• Jane Yolen
  • Briar Rose
  • Dragon's Blood; Heart's Blood; A Sending of Dragons
  • Dragonfield
  • Except the Queen
  • Sister Light, Sister Dark
  • White Jenna
• Roger Zelanzy
  • A Dark Traveling
  • Eye of Cat
  • Unicorn Variations
• Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold, Donnerjack
• Sarah Zettel
  • Dust Girl
  • A Sorcerer's Treason
  • Risa
• Stephan Zielinski, Bad Magic

To read, about fantasy:
• Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears [Review in Bookslut]
• Beal, Religion and Its Monsters
• Ariane and Christian Delacampagne, Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Beastiary
• Stefan Ekman, Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings
• Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
• Eric S. Rabkin, The Fantastic in Literature
• Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great