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This is a list I pulled from somewhere on the internet a while back and it contains a list of 206 fantasy and science fiction series that are worth consuming. In the instances that only the first book of a series is included, please assume this to mean that the entire series is on the list.

1/9/07: I found the Master Lists and the creator. Jay Tomio and

http://www.fantasybookspot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=471

http://www.fantasybookspot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1183

  2. 2.
  3. 3.
    Viriconium
    by M. John Harrison
  4. 4.
  5. 5.
    Tales of the Dying Earth
    by Jack Vance
  6. 6.
    To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld Saga, Book 1)
    by Philip Jose Farmer
  7. 7.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert
  9. 9.
    The Emperor of Dreams (Fantasy Masterworks)
    by Clark Ashton Smith
  12. 12.
    The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  15. 15.
    Hyperion
    by Dan Simmons
  16. 16.
    Lord of Light
    by Roger Zelazny
  17. 17.
    ?
    The night life of the gods
    by Thorne Smith
  18. 18.
    The Course of the Heart
    by M. John Harrison
  20. 20.
    Gloriana
    by Michael Moorcock
  21. 21.
    A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
    by George R.R. Martin
  22. 22.
    The Land of Laughs
    by Jonathan Carroll
  23. 23.
    The Anubis Gates
    by Tim Powers
  24. 24.
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
    by Susanna Clarke
  25. 25.
    Riddle-Master
    by Patricia A. McKillip
  26. 26.
    The Night's Dawn Trilogy
    by Peter F. Hamilton
  27. 27.
    Perdido Street Station
    by China Mieville
  28. 28.
    The Compleat Enchanter (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks S.)
    by Fletcher Pratt
  29. 29.
    Watchmen
    by Alan Moore
  30. 30.
    Lyonesse: Book 1 - Suldrun's Garden
    by Jack Vance
  31. 31.
    ?
    5th Head of Cerberus
    by Wolfe
  32. 32.
    The Color of Magic
    by Terry Pratchett
  33. 33.
    Secret Life
    by Jeff VanderMeer
  34. 34.
    The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
    by Neil Gaiman
  35. 35.
    Solomon Kane: Skulls in the Stars
    by Robert E. Howard
  36. 36.
    The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  38. 38.
    Elric of Melnibone 1
    by Michael Moorcock
  39. 39.
    The Last Coin
    by James P. Blaylock
  40. 40.
    Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
    by Neal Stephenson
  41. 41.
    The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance
    by E. R. Eddison
  42. 42.
    Mother London
    by Michael Moorcock
  43. 43.
    Voice Of The Fire
    by Alan Moore
  44. 44.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson
  45. 45.
    Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Robin Hobb
  46. 46.
    The Earthsea Quartet
    by Ursula Le Guin
  47. 47.
    Rendezvous with Rama
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  49. 49.
    Fevre Dream
    by George R.R. Martin
  50. 50.
    Paper Grail
    by James P. Blaylock
  52. 52.
    The King of Elfland's Daughter (Del Rey Impact)
    by Lord Dunsany
  53. 53.
    ?
    On Stranger Tides
    by Tim Powers
  54. 54.
    Otherwise: Three Novels
    by John Crowley
  56. 56.
  57. 57.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick
  58. 58.
  59. 59.
    The Fourth Circle
    by Zoran Zivkovic
  60. 60.
    Requiem
    by Graham Joyce
  62. 62.
  63. 63.
    Neverwhere
    by Neil Gaiman
  65. 65.
    The Once and Future King
    by Terence Hanbury White
  66. 66.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams
  67. 67.
    Last Call
    by Tim Powers
  68. 68.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card
  69. 69.
    Warrior's Apprentice
    by Lois McMaster Bujold
  70. 70.
    Little, Big
    by John Crowley
  71. 71.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  72. 72.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  73. 73.
    City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1)
    by Tad Williams
  75. 75.
    Foundation (Foundation Novels)
    by Isaac Asimov
  76. 76.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  77. 77.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson
  78. 78.
    The Lions of al-Rassan
    by Guy Gavriel Kay
  79. 79.
    The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
    by Stephen King
  80. 80.
    American Gods
    by Neil Gaiman
  81. 81.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  82. 82.
    Animal Man, Book 1 - Animal Man
    by Grant Morrison
  83. 83.
    The Last Unicorn
    by Peter S. Beagle
  84. 84.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  85. 85.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis
  88. 88.
    City of Saints and Madmen
    by Jeff Vandermeer
  89. 89.
    The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane
    by Karl Edward Wagner
  90. 90.
    The Devils in the Details
    by James P. Blaylock
  91. 91.
    Cryptonomicon
    by Neal Stephenson
  92. 92.
    The Golden Age (The Golden Age, Book 1)
    by John C. Wright
  93. 93.
    Pattern Recognition
    by William Gibson
  94. 94.
    The Facts of Life: A Novel
    by Graham Joyce
  95. 95.
    Transmetropolitan Vol 01: Back on the Street
    by Warren Ellis
  96. 96.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  97. 97.
    Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    by Richard K. Morgan
  98. 98.
    The Iron Dragon's Daughter
    by Michael Swanwick
  99. 99.
    The Steampunk Trilogy
    by Paul Di Filippo
  100. 100.
    The Silmarillion
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  101. 101.
  102. 102.
    A New Universal History of Infamy
    by Rhys Hughes
  103. 103.
    The Tooth Fairy
    by Graham Joyce
  104. 104.
  105. 105.
    Jack Faust
    by Michael Swanwick
  106. 106.
    The Troika
    by Stepan Chapman
  107. 107.
    The Neverending Story
    by Michael Ende
  108. 108.
    The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)
    by Ray Bradbury
  110. 110.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  111. 111.
    Heroes Die
    by Matthew Woodring Stover
  112. 112.
    Rats and Gargoyles
    by Mary Gentle
  113. 113.
    Broken Sword
    by Poul Anderson

  114. 114.
    ?
    The Tain
    by China Mieville
  115. 115.
    The Mists of Avalon
    by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  116. 116.
    Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set (Books 1-5)
    by J. K. Rowling
  117. 117.
    ?
    USE OF WEAPONS (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Iain M. Banks
  118. 118.
    Grendel
    by John Gardner
  119. 119.
    The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
    by Jeffrey Ford
  120. 120.
    The Genizah At The House Of Shepher
    by Tamar Yellin
  121. 121.
    ?
    Noctuary
    by Thomas Ligotti
  122. 122.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Lewis Carroll
  123. 123.
    The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams
    by Arthur Machen
  124. 124.
    ?
    A Year in the Linear City
    by Pau Di Filippo
  125. 125.
    The Atrocity Archives
    by Charles Stross
  126. 126.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany
  127. 127.
    The Languages of Pao
    by Jack Vance
  128. 128.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka
  129. 129.
    My Life as Emperor
    by Su Tong
  130. 130.
    Signs of Life
    by M. John Harrison
  131. 131.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco
  132. 132.
    The Baron In The Trees
    by Italo Calvino
  133. 133.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  134. 134.
    The Forever War
    by Joe Haldeman
  135. 135.
    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
    by Philip K. Dick
  137. 137.
    The WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL
    by Iain Banks
  138. 138.
    The Romance of Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1
    by Guanzhong Luo
  139. 139.
    Appleseed
    by John Clute
  140. 140.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov
  141. 141.
    Things That Never Happen
    by M.John Harrison
  142. 142.
    The Onion Girl
    by Charles de Lint
  143. 143.
    Lords Of Rainbow
    by Vera Nazarian
  144. 144.
    Perfect Circle
    by Sean Stewart
  145. 145.
    ?
    Wizardry and wild romance: A study of epic fantasy
    by Michael Moorcock
  147. 147.
    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino
  148. 148.
    Nine Layers of Sky
    by Liz Williams
  149. 149.
    City of Pearl
    by Karen Traviss
  150. 150.
    Bones of the Moon
    by Jonathan Carroll
  151. 151.
    Latro in the Mist
    by Gene Wolfe
  152. 152.
    Weaveworld
    by Clive Barker
  153. 153.
    Lust: Four Letters. Infinite Possibilities.
    by Geoff Ryman
  154. 154.
    The Etched City
    by K.J. Bishop
  155. 155.
    Chess Garden
    by Brooks Hansen
  156. 156.
    The Black Gondolier
    by Fritz Leiber
  157. 157.
  158. 158.
    Lud-In-The-Mist
    by Hope Mirrlees
  159. 159.
    Tales of Old Earth
    by Michael Swanwick
  160. 160.
    Archangel (Samaria, Book 1)
    by Sharon Shinn
  161. 161.
  162. 162.
    The Outlaw of Torn
    by E.R.Burroughs
  163. 163.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  164. 164.
    ?
    More Tomorrow & Other Stories
    by Michael Marshall Smith
  166. 166.
    ?
  167. 167.
    The Divinity Student (Buzzcity Press First Editions)
    by Michael Cisco
  168. 168.
    Move Under Ground
    by Nick Mamatas
  169. 169.
    The Bone Doll's Twin (Tamir Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Lynn Flewelling
  170. 170.
    Lost Pages (Di Filippo, Paul)
    by Paul Di Filippo
  171. 171.
    Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
    by Angela Carter
  172. 172.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon
  173. 173.
    Jirel Of Joiry
    by C. L. Moore
  174. 174.
    The State of the Art
    by Iain M. Banks
  175. 175.
    The World Inside
    by Robert Silverberg
  176. 176.
  178. 178.
    Leviathan Three
    by Forrest Aguirre
  179. 179.
    Gun, With Occasional Music: A Novel
    by Jonathan Lethem
  180. 180.
    Nowhere Near Milkwood
    by Rhys Hughes
  181. 181.
    Twilight Falling: The Erevis Cale Trilogy, Book I
    by Paul S. Kemp
  182. 182.
    Tigana
    by Guy Gavriel Kay
  183. 183.
    King Rat
    by China Mieville
  184. 184.
    Replay
    by Ken Grimwood
  185. 185.
    Imajica (The Fifth Dominion, Book 1)
    by Clive Barker
  186. 186.
    Stranger Things Happen: Stories
    by Kelly Link
  187. 187.
    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester
  188. 188.
    In the Palace of Repose
    by Holly Phillips
  189. 189.
    Coraline (rpkg) (HarperClassics)
    by Neil Gaiman
  190. 190.
    Carrion Comfort
    by Dan Simmons
  191. 191.
    The Shivered Sky
    by Matt Dinniman
  193. 193.
    ?
    Punktown
    by Jeffrey Thomas
  194. 194.
    Dying Inside
    by Robert Silverberg
  195. 195.
    Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders, Book 1)
    by Robin Hobb
  196. 196.
    A Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of Shadows)
    by J. V. Jones
  198. 198.
    Black Orchids from Aum
    by Gerard Daniel Houarner
  199. 199.
    The Light Ages
    by Ian R. MacLeod
  200. 200.
    The Family Trade (Merchant Princes)
    by Charles Stross
  201. 201.
    Pashazade
    by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
  202. 202.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    by Arthur Conan Doyle
  203. 203.
    Earth Abides
    by GEORGE R. STEWART
  204. 204.
    Behold the Man
    by Michael Moorcock
  205. 205.
    From Hell
    by Alan Moore
  206. 206.
    Letters from Hades
    by Jeffrey Thomas
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