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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Fantasy (92 books)

The best classic books from the Fantasy genre.

Time and Again

Time and Again

Jack Finney

4.0 (2)

In shirt-sleeves, the I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board.

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Shadow of the Torturer

Shadow of the Torturer

Gene Wolfe

4.0 (4)

It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and particularly to those collectors - too numerous to name here - who have permitted me to examine artifacts surviving so many centuries of futurity, and most especially to those who have allowed me to visit and photograph the era's few extant buildings, I am truly grateful. G.W. (Appendix)

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At Swim-Two-Birds

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien

2.0 (2)

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.

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Always Coming Home

Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin

4.0 (2)

Stone Telling is my last name.

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Dhalgren

Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany

2.0 (3)

To wound the autumnal city.

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More Than Human

More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon

4.5 (2)

The idiot lived in a black and gray world, punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear.

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The Blue Sword

The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

5.0 (2)

She scowled at her glass of orange juice.

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The Tartar Steppe

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

4.0 (1)

One September morning, Giovanni Drogo, being newly commissioned, set out from the city for Fort Bastiani; it was his first posting.

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Little, Big

Little, Big

John Crowley

3.5 (4)

On a certain day in June, 19--, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited.

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Lanark

Lanark

Alasdair Gray

3.0 (1)

The Elite Cafe was entered by a staircase from the foyer of a cinema.

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