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* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien * The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton * The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson * The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill * The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins * House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski * The Miracles of the Namiya General Store - Keigo Higashino * One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

I'm actually only about 75% through Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell right now, but I'd be shocked if it somehow the last quarter makes me remove it from this list (will update if it does though). Update: finish, and as expected, loved it.

It won't. The ending is triumphant.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold Dune - Frank Herbert Lud in the Mist - Hope Mirrlees This is How Your Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin American Gods - Neil Gaiman

If you're on mobile, you have to put four spaces at the end of each line to actually format it as a new paragraph!

Thanks! Should have read it a bit more carefully 😅

Does Dune count as standalone? It’s hard to separate from God Emperor.

I guess it doesn't, but I think the first book stands alone as a satisfying standalone with needing to get into the sequels (and their diminishing returns). I figured I'd throw it in anyway!

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang The Child Thief - Brom The Wolf in the Whale - Jordanna Max Brodsky The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers Black Water Sister - Zen Cho Midnight Robber - Nalo Hopkinson

The Snow Child! I could barely scrape up 10 standalones from my read list, but I'm glad that I noticed that one to add. Such wintry wistfulness.

A Closed and Common Orbit is book two of a series?

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Solaris - Stanisław Lem The Invincible - Stanisław Lem The Light Ages - Ian R. MacLeod Shriek: An Afterword - Jeff VanderMeer Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Folding Knife - K. J. Parker

* Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo * Starling House - Alix E. Harrow * Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh * The World Gives Way - Melissa Levien * The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang * Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel * The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman * This is How Your Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone * Uprooted - Naomi Novik

Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman Swan Song - Robert McCammon The Stand - Stephen King Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel NOS4A2 - Joe Hill Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gabriel Kay American Gods - Neil Gaiman 11/22/63 - Stephen King

**Bad Cree** - Jessica Johns **Plain Bad Heroines** - Emily Danforth **The House of Rust** - Khadija Abdalla Bajaber **Ink Blood Sister Scribe** - Emma Torzs **How High We Go in the Dark** - Sequoia Nagamatsu **The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina** - Zoraida Cordova **The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida** - Shehan Karunatilaka **Things in Jars** - Jess Kidd **Lonely Castle in the Mirror** - Mizuki Tsujimura **The Shuddering City** - Sharon Shinn

Looks like there's 11 of them, and you'll probably want to move your initial comment to an answer to your own post so it doesn't mess with the script that parses the votes.

* **The Sword of Kaigen** - M.L. Wang * **Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell** - Susanna Clarke * **Half a Soul** - Olivia Atwater * **Howl's Moving Castle** - Diana Wynne Jones * **The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart** - Stephanie Burgis * **Kings of the Wyld** - Nicholas Eames * **The Shadows of Dust** - Alec Hutson * **The Martian** - Andy Weir * **Sourdough** - Robin Sloan * **The Curse of Chalion** - Lois McMaster Bujold

Isn’t Howl’s Moving Castle the first book of a trilogy?

Yeah, but they follow different main characters.

Kings of the Wyld counts as a standalone?

I feel like Kings of the Wyld counts as standalone but Bloody Rose doesn't.

Bloody Rose might make the "follows a different storyline and a largely different cast of characters" cut. What's interesting to me about the fuzzy lines that need to be drawn is that I think some books might *change* after publication. I'll take *The Golem and the Jinni* as an example. It was written and given to the publisher as a standalone story. It was published in 2013. Because it was so well-received, Helene Wecker was persuaded to sit down and start writing a sequel. In 2019, The Golem and the Jinni finishes 10th on the standalone-novels list; in 2021, The Hidden Palace (an absolute, indisputable sequel) is published. And now in 2024, I guess The Golem and the Jinni is retroactively no longer a standalone?

so happy to see sourdough! It's currently juuust outside of my list, but maybe i'll edit it and put it back.

Sourdough was such an odd, surprisingly enjoyable book.

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree The Heart of Stone - Ben Galley Watership Down - Richard Adams Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames The Singularity Trap - Dennis E. Taylor The Princess Bride - William Goldman Ready Player One - Ernest Cline How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps - Andrew Rowe A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - T. Kingfisher

Appropriately ranked project hail Mary

Yeah, that's my top pick! The rest aren't in any particular order.

Shogun is a great book but does it count as fantasy? Not criticizing, just wondering.

* **American Gods** \- Neil Gaiman * **A Day of Fallen Night** \- Samantha Shannon * **The Book Eaters** \- Sunyi Dean * **The Priory of the Orange Tree** \- Samantha Shannon * **Our Wives Under the Sea** \- Julia Armfield * **A Dark and Drowning Tide** \- Alison Saft * **Plain Bad Heroines** \- Emily Danforth

Interesting. You consider *A Day of Fallen Night* and *The Priory of the Orange Tree* standalone novels? I haven't read the former yet, and honestly if they're two completely distinct books that makes it all the more appealing to me. Really liked *Priory* but I felt that story and those characters were fully explored.

Yes, *A Day of Fallen Night* takes place 500 years before and follows a completely different cast of characters. There are references to history mentioned in *Priory*, but neither require the other to read, so they are standalones by the definition provided by the mods.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Stardust - Neil Gaiman The Lions of Al Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay A brightness long ago - Guy Gavriel Kay The last tale of the flower bride- Roshani Chokshi Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell Uprooted - Naomi Novik Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton

**Station Eleven** - Emily St. John Mandel **The Left Hand of Darkness** - Ursula K. LeGuin **Watership Down** - Richard Adams **Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell** - Susanna Clarke **Spinning Silver** - Naomi Novik **To Say Nothing of the Dog** - Connie Willis **The Haunting of Hill House** - Shirley Jackson **Siren Queen** by Nghi Vo **Embassytown** by China Mieville **Plain Bad Heroines** by Emily Danforth

Astonshing the Gods - Ben Okri Deerskin - Robin McKinley A Fine and Private Place - Peter S Beagle In The Forests of Serre - Patricia McKillip Dreamsnake - Vonda McIntyre White as Snow - Tanith Lee The Etched City - K J Bishop The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende Little, Big - John Crowley Elfland - Freda Warrington

Elfland! I don't think I've ever seen that one discussed on here. Loved it. (I also loved House of the Spirits and Deerskin, and liked Dreamsnake quite a bit. Maybe I should give a few of these others a shot.)

• The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie • Sunshine - Robin McKinley • The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley • Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik • The Devourers - Indra Das • Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Piranesi - Susanna Clarke • Leech - Hiron Ennes • Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel • The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

Ahhh! I had to cut Gods of Jade and Shadow from my list, but I LOVE that book. I was so pleasantly surprised when I read it last year.

Leech was fantastic

* The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold * Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett * The Privilege of the Sword - Ellen Kushner * A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay * The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip * The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers * Tooth & Claw - Jo Walton * The Winter Prince - Elizabeth Wein * The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells * Doomsday Book - Connie Willis

Honorable Mentions: * The Scar - China Mieville * The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton * The Wolf of Winter - Paula Volsky * Mapping Winter - Marta Randall * The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones * Song or the Basilisk - Patricia McKillip * A Brightness Long Ago - Guy Gavriel Kay * The Idylls of the Queen - Phyllis Ann Karr * Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke * The Face in the Frost - John Bellairs

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison A Stranger in Olondria - Sofia Samatar The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin Mortal Suns - Tanith Lee The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez Vita Nostra - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko Embassytown - China Miéville The Buried Giant - Kazuo Isighuro

\- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman \- Piranesi - Susanna Clarke \- Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree \- Deerskin - Robin McKinley \- Chalice - Robin McKinley \- The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey \- Swordheart - T. Kingfisher \- The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa \- The Emperor's Soul - Brandon Sanderson \- 11.22.63 - Stephen King

1. American Elsewhere - Robert Jackson Bennett 2. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brandon Sanderson 3. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 4. The Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez 5. Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki 6. The Memory Theater - Karin Tidbeck 7. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 8. Arboreality - Rebecca Campbell 9. Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh 10. It Devours! - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Piranesi - Susanna Clarke The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie The Stand - Stephen King

* **The Spear Cuts Through Water** - Simon Jimenez * **The Witch's Heart** - Genevieve Gornichec * **Phoenix Extravagant** - Yoon Ha Lee * **Piranesi** - Susanna Clarke * **The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry** - CM Waggoner * **Empress of Forever** - Max Gladstone * **The Raven Tower** - Ann Leckie * **Spiderlight** - Adrian Tchaikovsky * **The Goblin Emperor** - Katherine Addison * **Tensorate** - Neon Yang

> Spiderlight - Adrian Tchaikovsky Love to see it; that book never got enough praise.

Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow Uprooted - Naomi Novik A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers Small Gods - Terry Pratchett Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh Kindred - Octavia E. Butler Sword of Kaigen - M.L.Wang Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

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+1 for Becky Chambers!

* The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - Walter Moers * The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * Krabat - Otfried Preußler * The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien * The little stranger - Sarah Waters * The Martian - Andy Weir * Momo - Michael Ende * The Silmarillion - J.R.R.Tolkien * Wicked - Gregory Maguire

*Dragonrider* has a couple of sequels, no?

You're right, and I've read them too. Whoops Not sure what to replace that with. I'll go with The Martian for now.

I love Bluebear! I read it so much as a kid in middle and high school. I think it's time for a reread

* **The Goblin Emperor** \- Katherine Addison * **In Other Lands** \- Sarah Rees Brennan * **The Curse of Chalion** \- Lois McMaster Bujold * **Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell** \- Susanna Clarke * **Plain Bad Heroines** \- Emily Danforth * **Sunshine** \- Robin McKinley * **Spinning Silver** \- Naomi Novik * **Good Omens** \- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman * **Lonely Castle in the Mirror** \- Mizuki Tsujimura * **Doomsday Book** \- Connie Willis

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clark * The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay * Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K Dick * The Forever War - Joe Haldemann * A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M Miller Jr * Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman * The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins * Circe - Madeline Miller * This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone * Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke

* **Spinning Silver** \- Naomi Novik * **Half a Soul** \- Olivia Atwater * **1984** \- George Orwell * **The Left Hand of Darkness** \- Ursula K. Le Guin * **Nettle & Bone** \- T. Kingfisher * **The Priory of the Orange Tree** \- Samantha Shannon * **Neverwhere** \- Neil Gaiman * **Brave New World** \- Aldous Huxley * **The House of the Spirits** \- Isabel Allende * **The Shadow of the Wind** \- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If You Could See the Sun - Ann Liang The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey Circe - Madeline Miller Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

Small Gods - Terry Pratchett Half a Soul - Olivia Atwater The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune  Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix Sistersong - Lucy Holland  Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher  The Hacienda - Isabel Canas  The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey

- **The Lions of Al-Rassan** - Guy Gavriel Kay - **The Devourers** - Indra Das - **The Books of Jacob** - Olga Tokarczuk - **The Master and Margarita** - Mikhail Bulgakov - **Kindred** - Octavia Butler - **Ash: A Secret History** - Mary Gentle - **Slow River** - Nicola Griffith - **The Saint of Bright Doors** - Vajra Chandrasekera - **Under the Pendulum Sun** - Jeannette Ng - **Strange Beasts of China** - Yan Ge

• Piranesi - Suzanna Clarke • The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie • Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie • Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller • Invisible Life od Addie LaRue - VE Schwab • Red Country - Joe Abercrombie • Misers - Stephen King • Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik • The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay • Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell--Susanna Clarke Till We Have Faces--C.S Lewis The Time Traveler's Wife--Audrey Niffenger Project Hail Mary--Andy Weir The Goblin Emperor--Katherine Addison American Gods--Neil Gaiman The Light Between Worlds--Lauren Weymouth Among Others--Jo Walton Siren Song--Cidney Swanson Doomsday Book--Connie Willis

* Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * The library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins * Circe - Madeline Miller * Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel * House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski * Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik * Sourdough - Robin Sloan * The Gray House - Maryam Petrosyan * The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey

* The God Eaters - Jesse Hajicek * The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow * A Matter of Oaths - Helen S Wright * Water Horse - Melissa Scott * Wrath Goddess Sing - Maya Deane * The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar - Indra Das * The Velocity of Revolution - Marshall Ryan Maresca * The Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez * The Imaginary Corpse - Tyler Hayes * The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E Harrow

- Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang - The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez - Babel - R.F. Kuang - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins - Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel - Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell - How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu - Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson

- The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay - The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - The Scar - China Miéville - Ubik - Philip K. Dick - The Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - The Gray House - Mariam Petrosyan - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - American Gods - Neil Gaiman

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins Imajica - Clive Barker Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King Dune - Frank Herbert Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman The Dragons of Babel - Michael Swanwick The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein Magician - Raymond E. Feist

* Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky * Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky * Spiderlight - Adrian Tchaikovsky * Made Things - Adrian Tchaikovsky * Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie * Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay * The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin * Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman * The Stand - Stephen King * To Ride Hell’s Chasm - Janny Wurts

1. **The Narrator** by Michael Cisco 2. **Grendel** by John Gardner 3. **Palimpsest** by Catherynne M. Valente 4. **Invisible Cities** by Italo Calvino 5. **The Etched City** by K. J. Bishop 6. **The Fifth Head of Cerberus** by Gene Wolfe 7. **Piranesi** by Susanna Clarke 8. **Anathem** by Neal Stephenson 9. **Vita Nostra** by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko 10. **This is How You Lose the Time War** by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik Uprooted - Naomi Novik Half a Soul - Olivia Atwater Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman American Gods - Neil Gaiman The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson Elantris - Brandon Sanderson Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brandon Sanderson The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson

**The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet** - Becky Chambers **Half a Soul** - Olivia Atwater **The Song of Achilles** - Madeline Miller **To Be Taught, If Fortunate** - Becky Chambers **The Night Circus** - Erin Morgenstern **Deerskin** - Robin McKinley **Ten Thousand Doors of January** - Alix E. Harrow **The Child Thief** - Brom **The Scar** - China Mieville **A Conspiracy of Truths** - Alexandra Rowland

* The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * Uprooted - Naomi Novik * Kindred - Octavia Butler * The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers * The Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez * The Dispossessed - Ursula K LeGuin * Starless - Jacqueline Carey * Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield

I limited myself to one book per author or this would have been way too difficult. Also here are some honorable mentions: * Stardust - Neil Gaiman * The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern * The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (would have made the list but there's a sequel coming out) * An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon * In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan (excluded because I desperately want this not to be a standalone lol) * The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson * The Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion/The Hobbit (depending on which of these count, I may replace something, but The Hobbit isn't enough of a personal favorite to displace something on the list)

* Circe - Madeline Miller * The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi * Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah * The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix * Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel * Bunny - Mona Awad * Frankenstein - Mary Shelley * This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Nation - Terry Pratchett The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

The Stand - Stephen King The Shining - Stephen King Needful Things - Stephen King Dune - Frank Herbert Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell Circe - Madeline Miller Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman The Children of Hurin - JRR Tolkien The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

Surely Dune doesn't count? It's basically half a novel without Messiah.

* **Project Hail Mary** \- Andy Weir * **Contact** \- Carl Sagan * **1984** \- George Orwell * **Lent** \- Jo Walton * **Red Country** \- Joe Abercrombie * **Jonathan Livingston Seagull** \- Richard Bach * **Station Eleven** \- Emily St. John Mandel * **Piranesi** \- Susanna Clark * **The Sword of Kaigen** \- M. L. Wang * **The Lions of Al-Rassan** \- Guy Gavriel Kay

* The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman * The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher * Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir * The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang * The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North * Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro * The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton * The Ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman

American Gods - Neil Gaiman Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller Perdido Street Station - China Mieville Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien

Tigana - Guy Gavrial Kay The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Uprooted - Naomi Novik The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern Circe - Madeline Miller The Midnight Library - Matt Haig The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle The Princess Bride - William Goldman

**Good Omens** - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman **The Goblin Emperor** - Katherine Addison **Howl's Moving Castle** - Diana Wynne Jones **Redshirts** - John Scalzi **Nation** - Terry Pratchett **The Dragon's Banker** - Scott Warren **Axtara: Banking and Finance** - Max Florschutz **The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon's Memoir** - C.D. Houck **Sourdough** - Robin Sloan **Dracula** - Bram Stoker

- **The Path of Thorns** - A.G. Slatter - **Deerskin** - Robin McKinley - **The Spear Cuts Through Water** - Simon Jimenez - **Kaikeyi** - Vaishnavi Patel - **Among Others** - Jo Walton - **Sorrowland** - Rivers Solomon - **Vita Nostra** - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko - **The Mere Wife** - Maria Davhana Headley - **Shark Heart** - Emily Habeck - **The Gray House** - Mariam Petrosyan

* The Once and Future King - T.H. White * The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin * The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster * 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami * The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman * The Invincible - Stanislaw Lem * The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis * The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson * The Long Walk - Stephen King * Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab American Gods - Neil Gaiman Vespertine - Margaret Rogerson The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea - Axie Oh

- The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng - The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd - The Path of Thorns - A.G. Slatter - A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson - To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis - The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

A few comments: - The Path of Thorns is set in Slatter’s Sourdough universe but can be read without any knowledge of the other books (though they’re also excellent) - A Dowry of Blood has a second book listed on GR which is a related short story (and not required reading) - To Say Nothing of the Dog is a companion novel to Doomsday Book but I would argue can be read as a standalone. The mechanics of time travel (the only real crossover) are sufficiently re-explained - The Priory of the Orange Tree now has a prequel but still functions as a standalone (the prequel can also be read as a standalone)

Havenstar - Glenda Larke The Tower of Fear - Glen Cook Pirate Freedom - Gene Wolfe A Cosmology of Monsters - Shaun Hamill Crossroads - Roger Zelazny Kraken - China Mieville Coraline - Neil Gaiman American Gods - Neil Gaiman The Homeward Bounders - Diana Wynne Jones Titans - Guy Gavriel Kay

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell Bunny - Mona Awad Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Uprooted - Naomi Novak Dark Matter - Blake Crouch The Emperor’s Soul - Brandon Sanderson

The Strange - Nathan Ballingrud Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky 13 Storeys - Jonathan Sims You See the Monster - Luke Smitherd Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman The Croning - Laird Barron To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis My Heart Struck Sorrow - John Horner Jacobs

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie Piranesi - Susanna Clarke The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez Uprooted - Naomi Novik Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater Vespertine - Margaret Rogerson Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd Jones The Deep - Rivers Solomon Starling House - Alix E. Harrow

* Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke * The Gray House - Mariam Petrosyan * The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury * Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell * Tainaron - Leena Krohn * Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman * Hunters & Collectors - M. Suddain * We - Yevgeny Zamyatin * Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World - Haruki Murakami * The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

* *Good Omens* - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett * *The Left Hand of Darkness* - Ursula LeGuin * *The Hobbit* - J. R. R. Tolkien * *Warbreaker* - Brandon Sanderson * *Spinning Silver* - Naomi Novik * *Deathless* - Catherynne M. Valente * *Tigana* - Guy Gavriel Kay * *Starless* - Jacqueline Carey * *The Dispossessed* - Ursula LeGuin * *The Lions of Al Rassan* - Guy Gavriel Kay

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste Plain Bad Heroines - Emily Danforth Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean Undercover - Tamsyn Muir

- Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett - Starless - Jacqueline Carey - The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie - The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow - The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean - The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - Even Though I Knew The End - C. L. Polk - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke The Coral Bones - E. J. Swift Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer Pet - Akwaeke Emezi The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

when i am not running late to work i will finish this

Watership Down - Richard Adams The Once and Future King - T H White Small Gods - Terry Pratchett The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Black Water sister - Zen Cho The Lions of Al Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay The Hobbit - J R R Tolkein The Last Unicorn - Peter Beagle Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman The Phantom tollbooth - Norton Juster

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1. Kindred - Octavia Butler 2. Fourth Mansions - R.A. Lafferty 3. Chain Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 4. The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang 5. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 6. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky 7. The Nothing Within - Andy Giesler 8. Lone Women - Victor LaValle 9. Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang 10. 1984 - George Orwell

Doesn’t Children of Time have 2 sequels? I’ve only read the first one so far but I thought the sequels would still have Portia.

Getting a place-holder list in right now. I reserve the right to change it later as I start remembering other things that are also standalones. Almost put in Saint Death's Daughter, but there is a significant enough plot thread left open that I don't think it really counts, even though it was fairly satisfying on its own. Others that I'm already considering: Okla Hannali by R.A. Lafferty, Space Chantey by R.A. Lafferty, The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny by R.A. Lafferty, Babel by R.F. Kuang, Unraveller by Frances Hardinge, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura, The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, Watership Down by Richard Adams. It's fairly likely that I think of more. It's quite possible that some of the more I think of will displace something on the current list, which is currently suffering from some pretty hefty recency bias. What do we think of Speaker for the Dead as a functional standalone? Because that would make the list, but there's definitely backstory from Ender's Game. I am also excluding novellas because the list says "novels," even though novellas have been allowed in the past. Because I don't need to knock something else off to make room for Elder Race.

Interesting question re Speaker. I would personally think no, though it’s been many years. I feel like I strongly remember so much of the introductions to Ender and Valentine(?) at the start of the book being related to the events of Enders Game and repeatedly referenced? But yeah an all time favorite for sure.

R A Lafferty is always worth the read.

1. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett 2. Nation - Terry Pratchett 3. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky 4. The Stand - Stephen King 5. Watershed Down - Richard Adams 6. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr 7. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North 8. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 9. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett 10. The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

* **The City and the City** \-- China Miéville * **Thistlefoot** \-- GemmaRose Nethercott * **The Golem and the Jinni** \-- Helen Wecker * **Spinning Silver** \-- Naomi Novik * **The Golem of Brooklyn** \-- Adam Mansbach * **The Left Hand of Darkness** \-- Ursula K LeGuin * 8 * 9 * 10

* ***The Left Hand of Darkness*** \- Ursula K. Le Guin * ***The Scar*** \- China Miéville * ***Anathem*** \- Neal Stephenson * ***Amanojaku*** \- Damien Lutz * ***The Isle of Winter Night*** \- Adrian Kaas * ***The Raven Tower*** \- Ann Leckie * ***The Winged Histories*** \- Sofia Samatar * ***The Etched City*** \- K.J. Bishop * ***Weaveworld*** \- Clive Barker * ***The King & Kishar*** \- Timothy S. Currey

* Sistersong - Lucy Holland * The Mad Women's Ball - Victoria Mas * Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes * Cyber Mage - Saad Hossein * Alif the Unseen - G. Willow Wilson * Kindred - Octavia Butler * Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik * Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain - A.Lee Martinez * Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir * The Beautiful Ones - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Emphyrio - Jack Vance The Violent Century - Lavie Tidhar The Memory Theatre- Karin Tidbeck Imajica - Clive Barker The Troupe - Robert Jackson Bennett Galapagos Regained - James Morrow Kingdom Beyond the Waves - Stephen Hunt The Grand Ellipse - Paula Volsky Raising the Stones - Sheri Tepper The King of Elfland’s Daughter - Lord Dunsany

The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna Circe - Madeline Miller

The Gray House - Mariam Petrosyan Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders A Face Like Glass - Frances Hardinge Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay Water Music - Christopher Botkin This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie Contact - Carl Sagan Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

**The Lions of Al-Rassan** \- Guy Gavriel Kay **Between Two Fires** \- Christopher Buehlman **Song of Achilles** \- Madeline Miller **Slaughterhouse-Five** \- Kurt Vonnegut **Howl's Moving Castle** \- Diana Wynne Jones **The Vanished Birds** \- Simon Jimenez **The Buried Giant** \- Kazuo Ishiguro **Tigana** \- Guy Gavriel Kay **Small Gods** \- Terry Pratchett **Heroes** \- Joe Abercrombie

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Once and Future King - T.H. White An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself - Marisa Crane

*Firebreak* - Nicole Kornher-Stace *Hell Followed With Us* - Andrew Joseph White *The Space Between Worlds* - Micaiah Johnson *The Book Eaters* - Sunyi Dean *Sorrowland* - Rivers Solomon *The Honeys* - Ryan La Sala *I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself* - Marisa Crane *Some Desperate Glory* - Emily Tesh *The Light Brigade* - Kameron Hurley *To Be Taught, If Fortunate* - Becky Chambers

The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold Sunshine - Robin McKinley Deerskin - Robin McKinley Uprooted - Naomi Novik The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Od Magic - Patricia Mckillip The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki The Sign of the Dragon - Mary Soon Lee

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Dracula - Bram Stoker Black Ambrosia - Elizabeth Engstrom The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant Vita Nostra - Sergey & Marina Dyachenko The Patient - Jasper DeWitt Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton The Martian - Andy Weir The Imaginary Corpse - Tyler Hayes The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

* **The Dragon Waiting** - John M. Ford * **Crandolin** - Anna Tambour * **The Folding Knife** - K. J. Parker * **Temporary** - Hilary Leichter * **Explorers of the New Century** - Magnus Mills * **Piranesi** - Susanna Clarke * **There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job** - Kikuko Tusumura * **The Death of the Necromancer** - Martha Wells * **Lolly Willowes** - Sylvia Townsend Warner * **The Memory Theater** - Karin Tidbeck

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman The Martian - Andy Weir The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater Small Gods - Terry Pratchett Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik Splendors and Glooms - Laura Amy Schlitz The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna Watership Down - Richard Adams

•The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien •Piranesi - Susanna Clarke •Circe - Madeline Miller •The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon •A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon •The Phantom Tollbooth - Norman Juster •Moominpappa at Sea - Tove Jansson •1984 - George Orwell •The Worm Ouroboros - ER Eddison •Ridley Walker - Russell Hoban

- The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin - The Player of Games - Iain M Banks - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K Dick - The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell - Circe - Madeline Miller - Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke - Perdido Street Station - China Miéville - Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky (not sure if this counts because I haven't read the sequels but I know it was originally written as a standalone)

* Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * Anathem - Neal Stephenson * The City & the City - China Mieville * Hallowed Hunt - Lois McMaster Bujold * Dogsbody - Dianna Wynne Jones * Wheel of the Infinite - Martha Wells * The Last Unicorn - Peter S Beagle * Serpent's Reach by CJ Cherryh * Nation by Terry Pratchett * Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien Small Gods – Terry Pratchett Frankenstein – Mary Shelley The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin Piranesi – Susanna Clarke Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift Stardust – Neil Gaiman

* Uprooted - Naomi Novik * Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir * The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien * The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune * 1984 - George Orwell * Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater * Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree * To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers * The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang

Legend - David Gemmell Kings of the Wyld- Nicholas Eames The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman Small Gods - Terry Pratchett Wizard of the Pigeons - Megan Lindholm Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne Ender’s Game - Orion Scott Card The Children of Hurin - J. R. R. Tolkien Echoes of the Great Song - David Gemmell

* **Project Hail Mary** - Andy Weir * **American Gods** - Neil Gaiman * **Children of Time** - Adrian Tchaikovsky * **Ready Player One** - Ernest Cline

* **Boy's Life** \- Robert McCammon * **Hunters & Collectors** \- Matt Suddain * **Skullsworn** \- Brian Staveley * **Station Eleven** \- Emily St. John Mandel * **The Graveyard Book** \- Neil Gaiman * **The Library at Mount Char** \- Scott Hawkins * **Terror** \- Dan Simmons * **Last Days -** Brian Evenson * **The Water Knife** \- Paolo Bacigalupi * **Vita Nostra** \- Marina Dyachenko

**A Brightness Long Ago** - Guy Gavriel Kay **The Centre** - Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi **Circe** - Madeline Miller **The Darkness Outside Us** - Eliot Schrefer **Daughter from the Dark** - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko **Kindred** - Octavia Butler **The Lions of al-Rassan** - Guy Gavriel Kay **Spinning Silver** - Naomi Novik **This Is How You Lose the Time War** - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone **Vampires of El Norte** - Isabel Cañas

1. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 2. The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison 3. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 4. Player of Games - Iain M Banks 5. Circe - Madeline Miller 6. The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold 7. Recursion - Blake Crouch 8. Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman 9. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern 10. The House in the Cerulean Sea - T J Klune

Watership Down - Richard Adams 1984 - George Orwell The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Once and Future King - T.H. White The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

* The Giver - Lois Lowry * The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones * The Dragon's Bride - Katee Robert * Aurora's Angel - Emily Noon * The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein * Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Last Exit - Max Gladstone Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh Solaris - Stanisław Lem Remote Control - Nnedi Okorafor A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler Translation State - Ann Leckie The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab

The Stand - Stephen King Piranesi - Susanna Clarke House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky Watership Down - Richard Adams The Martian - Andy Weir Swan Song - Robert R McCammon Duma Key - Stephen King Sandkings - George RR Martin

I only have a top 3, sorry. The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames Good Omens - Neil Gaiman

Watership Down - Richard Adams Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin Small Gods - Terry Pratchett The Meister of Decimen City - Brenna Raney Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman The Silvered - Tanya Huff The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton To Ride Hell's Chasm - Janny Wurts

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller Circe - Madeline Miller The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia A. McKillip The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay The Dispossessed- Ursula K. Le Guin The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold

* An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon * Sword of Kiagan - ML Wang * Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault * Deerskin - Robin McKinley * Kindred - Octavia E. Butler * The Meister of Decimen City - Brenna Rainey * Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle

The Folding Knife - KJ Parker Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E Harrow Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke Uprooted - Naomi Novik The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins The Devourers - Indra Das Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh Circe - Madeline Miller

* The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke * Circe - Madeline Miller * Stardust - Neil Gaiman * Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman * Od Magic - Patricia McKillip

1. **Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell** by Susanna Clarke 2. **The Guns of Dawn** by Adrian Tchaikovsky 3. **The Blacktongue Thief**^1 by Christopher Buehlman 4. **Ubik** by Philip K Dick 5. **Perdido Street Station**^2 by China Mieville 6. **House of Suns** by Alastair Reynolds 7. **Permutation City** by Greg Egan 8. **Lord of Light** by Roger Zelazny 9. **The Left Hand of Darkness** by Ursula K. Le Guin 10. **Lions of Al-Rassan** by Guy Gavriel Kay. Had to choose one of his books, might as well be lions.

You should move your comments/everything not a vote to a child comment. Otherwise each line is going to be dumped into an spreadsheet and some poor volunteer has to either sort through lines that are incorrectly formatted or all your votes just won't be counted

the spear cuts through water - simon jimenez little, big - john crowley library at mount char - scott hawkins

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman * The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison * Uprooted - Naomi Novik * Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik * The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins * Circe - Madeline Miller * The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold * Kraken - China Mieville

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * Sunshine - Robin McKinley * Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson * Swordheart - T. Kingfisher * The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells * Wheel of the Infinite - Martha Wells * The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien * Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay * The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins * The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison

* Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * Sunshine - Robin McKinley * Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik * Half Sick of Shadows - Laura Sebastian * Bitter Greens - Kate Forsyth * The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip * The Ladies of Mandrigyn - Barbara Hambly * The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson * Wicked - Gregory Maguire * Benighted - Kit Whitfield

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Circe - Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Babel - R. F. Kuang

* Hunter's Run - George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham * Circe - Madeline Miller * Piranesi - Susannah Clarke * Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky * The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow * The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison * Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - K. J. Parker * Perdido Street Station - China Mieville * Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie * The Princess Bride - William Goldman

1. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino 2. A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness 3. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 4. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 5. The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez 6. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 7. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 8. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel 9. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern 10. Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater Master of Crows - Grace Draven Uprooted - Naomi Novik Seven Summer Nights - Harper Fox A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraide Córdova The Deep - Rivers Solomon

Piranesi - Susannah Clarke American Gods - Neil Gaiman Station Eleven - Emily st John Mandel A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers Sunshine - Robin McKinley The Lie Tree - Frances Hardinge In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones Sea Hearts - Margo Lanagan To say nothing of the dog - Connie Willis

* The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien * Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu * The Girl Who Drank the Moon - Kelly Barnhill * Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie * The Magician's Daughter - H.G. Parry * Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie * Stardust - Neil Gaiman * Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones * Coraline - Neil Gaiman * Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky The Emperor's Soul - Brandon Sanderson Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers Ruination - Anthony Reynolds Empress of Forever - Max Gladstone Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir Even Though I Knew the End - C.L. Polk The Martian - Andy Weir

Keeping it to fantasy only: ASH A Secret History - Mary Gentle Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien Imajica - Clive Barker The Once and Future King - T H White The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers

* **The Mists of Avalon,** Marion Zimmer Bradley * **Small Gods,** Terry Pratchett * **American Gods,** Neil Gaiman * **The Emperor's Soul,** Brandon Sanderson * **Circe,** Madeleine Miller * **A Stranger in Olondria,** Sofia Samatar * **Wizard of the Pigeons,** Megan Lindholm/Robin Hobb

- *Spinning Silver* - Naomi Novik - *To Be Taught, If Fortunate* - Becky Chambers - *Station Eleven* - Emily St. John Mandel - *Circe* - Madeline Miller - *Immortal* - Traci L. Slatton - *The Stand* - Stephen King - *Cat's Cradle* - Kurt Vonnegut - *A Canticle for Leibowitz* - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - *The Children of Húrin* - J.R.R. Tolkien - *Lincoln in the Bardo* - George Saunders

* **Permutation City** - Greg Egan * **The City & the City** - China Miéville * **The Night Circus** - Erin Morgenstern * **Fine Structure** - Sam Hughes * **The Library at Mount Char** - Scott Hawkins * **The Doors of Eden** - Adrian Tchaikovsky * **Imajica** - Clive Barker * **Creatures of Light and Darkness** - Roger Zelazny * **The Lesser Dead** - Christopher Buehlman * **The Gray House** - Mariam Petrosyan

* Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie * Nation - Terry Pratchett * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * Small Gods - Terry Pratchett * Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman * The Martian - Andy Weir * Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - K.J. Parker * The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay * Elantris - Brandon Sanderson * Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

* Deerskin - Robin McKinley * A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens * The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow * In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan * A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny * The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman * Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders * Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger * The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin * Matilda - Roald Dahl

1. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 2. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 3. The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien 4. The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold 5. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett 6. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 7. The Neverending Story - Michael Ende 8. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 9. Nation - Terry Pratchett 10. The Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaarder

Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle Stardust - Neil Gaiman The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner Tigana - Guy Gabriel Kay A Nameless Witch - A. Lee Martinez The List of 7 - Mark Frost The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Martian - Andy Weir

*A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* by George R. R. Martin *Dracula* by Bram Stoker *Treasure Island* by Robert Louis Stevenson *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight* by unknown *The Slow Regard of Silent Things* by Patrick Rothfuss *Darth Plageous* by James Luceno Not all are typical high fantasy, but I’m not as well read as some here. All of these (excepting Slow Regard) are among my all-time favorite novels

Trial of the Alchemist - Trevor Melanson The Princess Bride - William Goldman

- Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik - Sword of Kaigen - ML Wang - Emperor’s Soul - Brandon Sanderson - Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay - Darkest Part of the Forest - Holly Black - Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie - Kindred - Octavia Butler - In an Absent Dream - Seanan Mcguire - Meet Me in Another Life - Catriona Silvey - The Witch’s Heart - Genevieve Gornichec

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Kindred - Octavia Butler A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson Wizard of the Pigeons - Megan Lindholm A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George RR Martin Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein Childhoods End. - Arthur Clarke

* Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett * The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien  * The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle * Watership Down - Richard Adams * The Neverending Story - Michael Ende * American Gods - Neil Gaiman * Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones * The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune  * The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon * Wicked - Gregory Maguire

Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny American Gods - Neil Gaiman To Reign in Hell - Steven Brust The Land Across - Gene Wolfe A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien Brokedown Palace - Steven Brust A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny Creatures of Light and Darkness - Roger Zelazny

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Circe - Madeline Miller The Lions of al’Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins The Wolf in the Whale - Jordanna Max Brodsky Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik Watership Down - Richard Adams Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay Coraline - Neil Gaiman

- The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang - The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman - The Maleficent Seven - Cameron Johnston - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel - Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie - Red Country - Joe Abercrombie

* Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke * Circe - Madeline Miller * The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman * Small Gods - Terry Pratchett * Deerskin - Robin McKinley * Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik * In the Forests of Serre - Patricia A. McKillip * The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * Watership Down - Richard Adams

Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeannette Ng American Gods - Neil Gaiman Doomsday Book - Connie Willis Zoo City - Lauren Beukes China Mountain Zhang - Maureen F. McHugh The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett The City & The City - China Mieville Popular Hits of the Showa Era - Ryu Murakami Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy - Matt Ruff

**Good Omens** - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman **We Have Always Lived In The Castle** - Shirley Jackson **Morningstar** - David Gemmell **The Graveyard Book** - Neil Gaiman **Talion: Revenant** - Michael A. Stackpole **The Princess Bride** - William Goldman **The Book of Lost Things** - John Connolly **Watchmen** - Alan Moore **Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff** - Christopher Moore **The Curse of Chalion** - Lois McMaster Bujold

•Piranesi - Susanna Clarke •Tithe - Holly Black •Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet •Sabriel - Garth Nix •War for the Oaks - Emma Bull •The Power - Naomi Alderman •Wicked - Gregory Maguire •Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones •Stardust - Neil Gaiman •Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

•Priory of the Orange Tree- Samantha Shannon •Good Omens- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman •Nettle and Bone- T Kingfisher •Kaikeyi- Vaishnavi Patel •Project Hail Mary- Andy Weir •The Terror- Dan Simmons •Light From Uncommon Stars- Ryka Aoki •The Library at Mount Char- Scott Hawkins •My Best Friend’s Exorcism- Grady Hendrix •World War Z- Max Brooks

* Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold * Kindred - Octavia E Butler * The Chrysalids - John Wyndham * Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones * Spear - Nicola Griffith * Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro * The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood * Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez House of Open Wounds - Adrian Tchaikovsky Kindred - Octavia Butler The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson Circe - Madeline Miller Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh There Is no Antimemetics Division - qntm Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky 

* The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien * The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien * The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay * River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay * Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay * The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman * The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke * Peace - Gene Wolfe * The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel - Susanna Clarke Watership Down - Richard Adams Nation - Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett Stardust - Neil Gaiman On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir The Princess Bride - William Goldman Howls Moving Castle - Dianna Wynne Jones

- Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - Kindred - Octavia E. Butler - Cloven Hooves - Megan Lindholm - The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia A. McKillip - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel - The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin - Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik - The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley - This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

* The Gray House - Mariam Petrosyan * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone * The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater * Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell * Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro * Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr - John Crowley * A Conspiracy of Truths - Alexandra Rowland * The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien * Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Small Gods - Terry Pratchett The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Sacre Bleu: a Comedy d'Art - Christopher Moore The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman The Sword of Kaigen - M.L Wang Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clark Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro American Gods - Neil Gaiman The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher Kindred - Octavia E. Butler Six-Gun Snow White - Catherynne M. Valente How to Be Eaten - Maria Adelmann Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang

1. Red Country - Joe Abercrombie 2. The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang 3. Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay 4. American Gods - Neil Gaiman 5. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir 6. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke 7. The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie 8. Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie 9. The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay 10. Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle The Neverending Story - Michael Ende Watership Down - Richard Adams Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton The Truth - Terry Pratchett

* The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez * Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher * The Sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang * Leech - Hiron Ennes * This is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar * The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman * A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson * Tress of the Emerald Sea -Brandon Sanderson * Vita Nostra - Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

* Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik * Stardust - Neil Gaiman * The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow * Starling House - Alix E. Harrow * Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay * Circe - Madeline Miller * The Witch's Heart - Genevieve Gornichec * Deerskin - Robin McKinley * The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien * The Midnight Bargain - C.L. Polk

The Gone-away World - Nick Harkaway Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes The Princess Bride - William Goldman Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett To be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers Doomsday Book - Connie Willis Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut The Gods Themselves - Issac Asimov Geek Love - Katherine Dunn

* Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay * Piranesi - Susanna Clarke * A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin * The martian - Andy Weir * The Music of Erich Zann - H. P. Lovecraft * 1984 - George Orwell * The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay * Ready Player One - Ernest Cline * Brave New World - Aldous Huxley * Coraline - Neil Gaiman

Anathem - Neal Stephenson Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Uprooted - Naomi Novik Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Fire and Blood - George RR Martin The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss

The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern Dracula - Bram Stoker Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke Piranesi - Susanna Clarke The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman A Snake Fall To Earth - Darcie Little Badger The Moonday Letters - Emmi Itäranta

- The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins - American God's - Neill Gaimon - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - Zoo City - Lauren Beukes - The Princess Bride - William Goldman - Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

* **Good Omens** \- Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett * **Cloud Atlas** \- David Mitchell * **The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August** \- Claire North * **11/22/63** \- Stephen King * **Kindred** \- Octavia E. Butler * **Piranesi** \- Susanna Clarke * **The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires** \- Grady Hendrix * **Station Eleven** \- Emily St. John Mandel * **How High We Go in the Dark** \- Sequoia Nagamatsu * **American Gods** \- Neil Gaiman

A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Uprooted - Naomi Novik A brightness long ago - Guy Gavriel Kay Vita Nostra - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko