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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

  1. 2.

  2. 3.
    Viriconium
    by M. John Harrison

  3. 4.

  4. 5.
    Tales of the Dying Earth
    by Jack Vance

  5. 6.
    To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld Saga, Book 1)
    by Philip Jose Farmer

  6. 7.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  7. 9.
    The Emperor of Dreams (Fantasy Masterworks)
    by Clark Ashton Smith

  8. 12.
    The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  9. 15.
    Hyperion
    by Dan Simmons

  10. 16.
    Lord of Light
    by Roger Zelazny

  11. 17.
    ?
    The night life of the gods
    by Thorne Smith

  12. 18.
    The Course of the Heart
    by M. John Harrison

  13. 20.
    Gloriana
    by Michael Moorcock

  14. 21.
    A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
    by George R.R. Martin

  15. 22.
    The Land of Laughs
    by Jonathan Carroll

  16. 23.
    The Anubis Gates
    by Tim Powers

  17. 24.
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
    by Susanna Clarke

  18. 25.
    Riddle-Master
    by Patricia A. McKillip

  19. 26.
    The Night's Dawn Trilogy
    by Peter F. Hamilton

  20. 27.
    Perdido Street Station
    by China Mieville

  21. 28.
    The Compleat Enchanter (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks S.)
    by Fletcher Pratt

  22. 29.
    Watchmen
    by Alan Moore

  23. 30.
    Lyonesse: Book 1 - Suldrun's Garden
    by Jack Vance

  24. 31.
    ?
    5th Head of Cerberus
    by Wolfe

  25. 32.
    The Color of Magic
    by Terry Pratchett

  26. 33.
    Secret Life
    by Jeff VanderMeer

  27. 34.
    The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
    by Neil Gaiman

  28. 35.
    Solomon Kane: Skulls in the Stars
    by Robert E. Howard

  29. 36.
    The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  30. 38.
    Elric of Melnibone 1
    by Michael Moorcock

  31. 39.
    The Last Coin
    by James P. Blaylock

  32. 40.
    Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
    by Neal Stephenson

  33. 41.
    The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance
    by E. R. Eddison

  34. 42.
    Mother London
    by Michael Moorcock

  35. 43.
    Voice Of The Fire
    by Alan Moore

  36. 44.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  37. 45.
    Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Robin Hobb

  38. 46.
    The Earthsea Quartet
    by Ursula Le Guin

  39. 47.
    Rendezvous with Rama
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  40. 49.
    Fevre Dream
    by George R.R. Martin

  41. 50.
    Paper Grail
    by James P. Blaylock

  42. 52.
    The King of Elfland's Daughter (Del Rey Impact)
    by Lord Dunsany

  43. 53.
    ?
    On Stranger Tides
    by Tim Powers

  44. 54.
    Otherwise: Three Novels
    by John Crowley

  45. 56.

  46. 57.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

  47. 58.

  48. 59.
    The Fourth Circle
    by Zoran Zivkovic

  49. 60.
    Requiem
    by Graham Joyce

  50. 62.

  51. 63.
    Neverwhere
    by Neil Gaiman

  52. 65.
    The Once and Future King
    by Terence Hanbury White

  53. 66.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

  54. 67.
    Last Call
    by Tim Powers

  55. 68.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

  56. 69.
    Warrior's Apprentice
    by Lois McMaster Bujold

  57. 70.
    Little, Big
    by John Crowley

  58. 71.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  59. 72.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  60. 73.
    City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1)
    by Tad Williams

  61. 75.
    Foundation (Foundation Novels)
    by Isaac Asimov

  62. 76.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  63. 77.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson

  64. 78.
    The Lions of al-Rassan
    by Guy Gavriel Kay

  65. 79.
    The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
    by Stephen King

  66. 80.
    American Gods
    by Neil Gaiman

  67. 81.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  68. 82.
    Animal Man, Book 1 - Animal Man
    by Grant Morrison

  69. 83.
    The Last Unicorn
    by Peter S. Beagle

  70. 84.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

  71. 85.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis

  72. 88.
    City of Saints and Madmen
    by Jeff Vandermeer

  73. 89.
    The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane
    by Karl Edward Wagner

  74. 90.
    The Devils in the Details
    by James P. Blaylock

  75. 91.
    Cryptonomicon
    by Neal Stephenson

  76. 92.
    The Golden Age (The Golden Age, Book 1)
    by John C. Wright

  77. 93.
    Pattern Recognition
    by William Gibson

  78. 94.
    The Facts of Life: A Novel
    by Graham Joyce

  79. 95.
    Transmetropolitan Vol 01: Back on the Street
    by Warren Ellis

  80. 96.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  81. 97.
    Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    by Richard K. Morgan

  82. 98.
    The Iron Dragon's Daughter
    by Michael Swanwick

  83. 99.
    The Steampunk Trilogy
    by Paul Di Filippo

  84. 100.
    The Silmarillion
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  85. 101.

  86. 102.
    A New Universal History of Infamy
    by Rhys Hughes

  87. 103.
    The Tooth Fairy
    by Graham Joyce

  88. 104.

  89. 105.
    Jack Faust
    by Michael Swanwick

  90. 106.
    The Troika
    by Stepan Chapman

  91. 107.
    The Neverending Story
    by Michael Ende

  92. 108.
    The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)
    by Ray Bradbury

  93. 110.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  94. 111.
    Heroes Die
    by Matthew Woodring Stover

  95. 112.
    Rats and Gargoyles
    by Mary Gentle

  96. 113.
    Broken Sword
    by Poul Anderson

  97. 114.
    ?
    The Tain
    by China Mieville

  98. 115.
    The Mists of Avalon
    by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  99. 116.
    Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set (Books 1-5)
    by J. K. Rowling

  100. 117.
    ?
    USE OF WEAPONS (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Iain M. Banks

  101. 118.
    Grendel
    by John Gardner

  102. 119.
    The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
    by Jeffrey Ford

  103. 120.
    The Genizah At The House Of Shepher
    by Tamar Yellin

  104. 121.
    ?
    Noctuary
    by Thomas Ligotti

  105. 122.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Lewis Carroll

  106. 123.
    The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams
    by Arthur Machen

  107. 124.
    ?
    A Year in the Linear City
    by Pau Di Filippo

  108. 125.
    The Atrocity Archives
    by Charles Stross

  109. 126.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany

  110. 127.
    The Languages of Pao
    by Jack Vance

  111. 128.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

  112. 129.
    My Life as Emperor
    by Su Tong

  113. 130.
    Signs of Life
    by M. John Harrison

  114. 131.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

  115. 132.
    The Baron In The Trees
    by Italo Calvino

  116. 133.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  117. 134.
    The Forever War
    by Joe Haldeman

  118. 135.
    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
    by Philip K. Dick

  119. 137.
    The WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL
    by Iain Banks

  120. 138.
    The Romance of Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1
    by Guanzhong Luo

  121. 139.
    Appleseed
    by John Clute

  122. 140.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  123. 141.
    Things That Never Happen
    by M.John Harrison

  124. 142.
    The Onion Girl
    by Charles de Lint

  125. 143.
    Lords Of Rainbow
    by Vera Nazarian

  126. 144.
    Perfect Circle
    by Sean Stewart

  127. 145.
    ?
    Wizardry and wild romance: A study of epic fantasy
    by Michael Moorcock

  128. 147.
    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino

  129. 148.
    Nine Layers of Sky
    by Liz Williams

  130. 149.
    City of Pearl
    by Karen Traviss

  131. 150.
    Bones of the Moon
    by Jonathan Carroll

  132. 151.
    Latro in the Mist
    by Gene Wolfe

  133. 152.
    Weaveworld
    by Clive Barker

  134. 153.
    Lust: Four Letters. Infinite Possibilities.
    by Geoff Ryman

  135. 154.
    The Etched City
    by K.J. Bishop

  136. 155.
    Chess Garden
    by Brooks Hansen

  137. 156.
    The Black Gondolier
    by Fritz Leiber

  138. 157.

  139. 158.
    Lud-In-The-Mist
    by Hope Mirrlees

  140. 159.
    Tales of Old Earth
    by Michael Swanwick

  141. 160.
    Archangel (Samaria, Book 1)
    by Sharon Shinn

  142. 161.

  143. 162.
    The Outlaw of Torn
    by E.R.Burroughs

  144. 163.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  145. 164.
    ?
    More Tomorrow & Other Stories
    by Michael Marshall Smith

  146. 166.
    ?

  147. 167.
    The Divinity Student (Buzzcity Press First Editions)
    by Michael Cisco

  148. 168.
    Move Under Ground
    by Nick Mamatas

  149. 169.
    The Bone Doll's Twin (Tamir Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Lynn Flewelling

  150. 170.
    Lost Pages (Di Filippo, Paul)
    by Paul Di Filippo

  151. 171.
    Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
    by Angela Carter

  152. 172.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  153. 173.
    Jirel Of Joiry
    by C. L. Moore

  154. 174.
    The State of the Art
    by Iain M. Banks

  155. 175.
    The World Inside
    by Robert Silverberg

  156. 176.

  157. 178.
    Leviathan Three
    by Forrest Aguirre

  158. 179.
    Gun, With Occasional Music: A Novel
    by Jonathan Lethem

  159. 180.
    Nowhere Near Milkwood
    by Rhys Hughes

  160. 181.
    Twilight Falling: The Erevis Cale Trilogy, Book I
    by Paul S. Kemp

  161. 182.
    Tigana
    by Guy Gavriel Kay

  162. 183.
    King Rat
    by China Mieville

  163. 184.
    Replay
    by Ken Grimwood

  164. 185.
    Imajica (The Fifth Dominion, Book 1)
    by Clive Barker

  165. 186.
    Stranger Things Happen: Stories
    by Kelly Link

  166. 187.
    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester

  167. 188.
    In the Palace of Repose
    by Holly Phillips

  168. 189.
    Coraline (rpkg) (HarperClassics)
    by Neil Gaiman

  169. 190.
    Carrion Comfort
    by Dan Simmons

  170. 191.
    The Shivered Sky
    by Matt Dinniman

  171. 193.
    ?
    Punktown
    by Jeffrey Thomas

  172. 194.
    Dying Inside
    by Robert Silverberg

  173. 195.
    Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders, Book 1)
    by Robin Hobb

  174. 196.
    A Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of Shadows)
    by J. V. Jones

  175. 198.
    Black Orchids from Aum
    by Gerard Daniel Houarner

  176. 199.
    The Light Ages
    by Ian R. MacLeod

  177. 200.
    The Family Trade (Merchant Princes)
    by Charles Stross

  178. 201.
    Pashazade
    by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

  179. 202.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

  180. 203.
    Earth Abides
    by GEORGE R. STEWART

  181. 204.
    Behold the Man
    by Michael Moorcock

  182. 205.
    From Hell
    by Alan Moore

  183. 206.
    Letters from Hades
    by Jeffrey Thomas

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