A Song of Ice and Fire by George Martin Thanks to the members of BSC I recently discovered Martin’s epic series and it is now among my favorite fantasy books. Martin writes a story on an epic s...
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle  Borges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges  The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner  Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille by Steven...
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Ash by Mary GentleGentle has so many great books, I think this is the best. Titus Groan by Mervyn PeakeWhat more can I say? Peake created a world, a microcosm, in a building. Gloriana by Michael ...
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham Maia by Richard Adams This prequel revisits the setting of Shardik. I didn’t think it was as good as Shardik, but it ...
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson This is an Asian alternative history novel. It plays on the idea that the entirety of European culture got wiped out by the Black Plague. Cartom...
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem  Star diaries by Stanislaw Lem  Inne Piesni by Jacek Dukaj  Hard to be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky  Gusliar Wonders by Kirill Bulychev  Last Wish ...
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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss  A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin  The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch  Eye of the World by Robert Jordan  Shadowbred by Paul S. Kemp Â...
Shadow & Claw – Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe Very little needs to be said here. One of the best series ever written, bar none. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake I’ve been wanting to read Peake...
Clockers by Richard Price  Crime Novels : American Noir of the 1930s and 40s  Crime Novels : American Noir of the 1950s  Darkness Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane  Drive by James Sallis  T...
Bedlam’s Bard by Mercedes Lackey It’s silly, cheesy, preposterous urban fantasy and yet, I find it so enjoyable, I read it at least once a year. 1602 by Neil Gaiman I’m a fan of nearly ev...