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\nNote that this represents an international\/cross historial flavor. I would make very different suggestions if you were looking to focus on any one specific aspects of literary history.<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/b>
\nChinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
\nHans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
\nJane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
\nHonore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
\nSamuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
\nGiovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
\nJorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
\nEmily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
\nAlbert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
\nPaul Celan, Romania\/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
\nLouis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
\nMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
\nGeoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
\nJoseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
\nDante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
\nCharles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
\nDenis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
\nAlfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
\nFyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
\nGeorge Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
\nRalph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
\nEuripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
\nWilliam Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
\nGustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
\nFederico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
\nGabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
\nGilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
\nNikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
\nGunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
\nJoao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
\nKnut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
\nErnest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
\nHomer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
\nHenrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll’s House
\nThe Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
\nJames Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
\nFranz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
\nKalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
\nYasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
\nNikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
\nDH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
\nHalldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
\nGiacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
\nDoris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
\nAstrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
\nLu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
\nMahabharata, India, (c 500 BC). Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
\nThomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
\nHerman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
\nMichel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
\nToni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
\nShikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N\/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
\nRobert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
\nVladimir Nabokov, Russia\/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
\nNjaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
\nGeorge Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
\nOvid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
\nFernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
\nEdgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
\nMarcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
\nFrancois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
\nJuan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
\nJalal ad-din Rumi, Iran, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
\nSalman Rushdie, India\/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight’s Children
\nSheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
\nTayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
\nJose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
\nWilliam Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
\nSophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
\nStendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
\nLaurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
\nItalo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
\nJonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver’s Travels
\nLeo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
\nAnton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
\nThousand and One Nights, India\/Iran\/Iraq\/Egypt, (700-1500).
\nMark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
\nValmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
\nVirgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
\nWalt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
\nVirginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
\nMarguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian <\/p>\n

Non-Fiction<\/b>
\nThe Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams
\nThe Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
\nUp From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
\nA Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
\nSilent Spring, by Rachel Carson
\nSelected Essays, 1917-1932, by T.S. Eliot
\nThe Double Helix, by James D. Watson
\nSpeak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov
\nThe American Language, by H.L. Mencken
\nThe General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
\nThe Lives of A Cell, by Lewis Thomas
\nThe Frontier in American History, by Frederick Jackson Turner
\nBlack Boy, by Richard Wright
\nAspects of the Novel, by E.M. Forster
\nThe Civil War*, by Shelby Foote
\nThe Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman
\nThe Proper Study of Mankind, by Isaiah Berlin
\nThe Nature and Destiny of Man*, by Reinhold Niebuhr
\nNotes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
\nThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
\nThe Elements of Style, by William Strunk & E.B. White
\nAn American Dilemma*, by Gunnar Myrdal
\nPrincipia Mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
\nThe Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould
\nThe Mirror and the Lamp, by M.H. Abrams
\nThe Art of the Solube, by Peter Medawar
\nThe Ants, by Bert Hoelldobler and E.O. Wilson
\nA Theory of Justice, by John Rawls
\nArt and Illusion, by E.H. Gombrich
\nThe Making of the English Working Class, by E.P. Thompson
\nThe Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois
\nPrincipia Ethica, by G.E. Moore
\nPhilosophy and Civilization, by John Dewey
\nOn Growth and Form, by D’Arcy Thompson
\nIdeas and Opinions, by Albert Einstein
\nThe Age of Jackson, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
\nThe Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
\nBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
\nAutobiographies*, by W.B. Yeats
\nScience and Civilization in China, by Joseph Needham
\nGoodbye to All That, by Robert Graves
\nHomage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
\nThe Autobiography of Mark Twain, by Mark Twain
\nChildren of Crisis*, by Robert Coles
\nA Study of History*, by Arnold Toynbee
\nThe Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith
\nPresent at the Creation, by Dean Acheson
\nThe Great Bridge, by David McCullough
\nPatriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson
\nSamuel Johnson, by W.J. Bate
\nThe Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
\nThe Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
\nEminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
\nWorking, by Studs Terkel
\nDarkenss Visible, by William Styron
\nThe Liberal Imagination, by Lionel Trilling
\nThe Second World War, by Winston Churchill
\nOut of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
\nJefferson and His Time*, by Dumas Malone
\nIn the American Grain, by William Carlos Williams
\nCadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner
\nThe House of Morgan, by Ron Chernow
\nThe Sweet Science, by A.J. Liebling
\nThe Open Society and its Enemies, by Karl Popper
\nThe Art of Memory, by Frances Yates
\nReligion and the Rise of Capitalism, by R.H. Tawney
\nA Preface to Morals, by Walter Lippmann
\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace, by Jonathan Spence
\nThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
\nThe Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Vann Woodward
\nThe Rise of the West, by William H. McNeill
\nThe Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagels
\nJames Joyce, by Richard Ellmann
\nFlorence Nightingale, by Cecil Woodham-Smith
\nThe Great War and Modern Memory, by Paul Fussell
\nThe City in History, by Lewis Mumford
\nBattle Cry of Freedom, by James M. Macpherson
\nWhy We Can’t Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.
\nThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
\nStudies in Iconology, by Erwin Panofsky
\nThe Face of Battle, by John Keegan
\nThe Strange Death of Liberal England, by George Dangerfield
\nVermeer, by Lawrence Gowing
\nA Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan
\nWest With the Night, by Beryl Markham
\nThis Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff
\nA Mathematician’s Apology, by G.H. Hardy
\nSix Easy Pieces, by Richard Feynman
\nPilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
\nThe Golden Bough, by James George Frazier
\nShadow and Act, by Ralph Ellison
\nThe Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
\nThe American Political Tradition, by Richard Hofstadter
\nThe Contours of American History, by William Appleman Williams
\nThe Promise of American Life, by Herbert Croly
\nIn Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
\nThe Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm
\nThe Taming of Chance, by Ian Hacking
\nOperating Instructions, by Anne Lamott
\nMelbourne, by David Cecil<\/p>\n

So much for reading for enlightenment, the following is pleasure:<\/p>\n

Science Fiction<\/b>
\nChildhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
\nFoundation, by Isaac Asimov
\nDune, by Frank Herbert
\nMan in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick
\nStarship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
\nValis, by Philip K. Dick
\nFrankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
\nGateway, by Frederik Pohl
\nSpace Merchants, by Frederik Pohl
\nEarth Abides, by George R. Stewart
\nCuckoo’s Egg, by C.J. Cherryh
\nStar Surgeon, by James White
\nThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick
\nRadix, by A. A. Attanasio
\n2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
\nRingworld, by Larry Niven
\nA Case of Conscience, by James Blish
\nLast and First Man, by Olaf Stapledon
\nThe Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
\nWay Station, by Clifford D. Simak
\nMore Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon
\nGray Lensman, by E.E. “Doc” Smith
\nThe Gods Themselves, by Isaac Asimov
\nThe Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
\nBehold the Man, by Michael Moorcock
\nStar Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
\nThe War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells
\n20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
\nHeritage of Hastur, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
\nThe Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
\nThe Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
\nSlan, by A. E. Van Vogt
\nNeuromancer, by William Gibson
\nEnder’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
\nIn Conquest Born, by C. S. Friedman
\nLord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
\nEon, by Greg Bear
\nDragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
\nJourney to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
\nStranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
\nCosm, by Gregory Benford
\nThe Voyage of the Space Beagle, by A. E. Van Vogt
\nBlood Music, by Greg Bear
\nBeggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
\nOmnivore, by Piers Anthony
\nI, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
\nMission of Gravity, by Hal Clement
\nTo Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philip Jose Farmer
\nBrave New World, by Aldous Huxley
\nThe Man Who Folded Himself, by David Gerrold
\n1984, by George Orwell
\nThe Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
\nSnow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
\nFlesh, by Philip Jose Farmer
\nCities in Flight, by James Blish
\nShadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe
\nStartide Rising, by David Brin
\nTriton, by Samuel R. Delany
\nStand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner
\nA Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
\nFahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
\nA Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
\nFlowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
\nNo Blade of Grass, by John Christopher
\nThe Postman, by David Brin
\nDhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
\nBerserker, by Fred Saberhagen
\nFlatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott
\nPlaniverse, by A. K. Dewdney
\nDragon’s Egg, by Robert L. Forward
\nDownbelow Station, by C. J. Cherryh
\nDawn, by Octavia E. Butler
\nThe Puppet Masters, by Robert A. Heinlein
\nThe Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
\nForever War, by Joe Haldeman
\nDeathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison
\nRoadside Picnic, by Arkady Strugatsky
\nThe Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge
\nThe Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
\nDrowned World, by J.G. Ballard
\nCat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
\nRed Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
\nUpanishads, by Various
\nAlice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
\nThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
\nThe Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin
\nThe Midwich Cuckoos, by John Wyndham
\nMutant, by Henry Kuttner
\nSolaris, by Stanislaw Lem
\nRalph 124C41+, by Hugo Gernsback
\nI Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
\nTimescape, by Gregory Benford
\nThe Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester
\nWar with the Newts, by Karl Kapek
\nMars, by Ben Bova
\nBrain Wave, by Poul Anderson
\nHyperion, by Dan Simmons
\nThe Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton
\nCamp Concentration, by Thomas M. Disch
\nA Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/p>\n

Fantasy Series<\/b>
\nAnything by R.A. Salvatore (he has several series\/trilogies\/quintents)
\nAny of the Shannara Series (Terry Brooks)
\nThe Wheel of Time Series
\nThe Fey Cycle – by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
\nTolkien (nuff said)
\nHickman & Weiss Dragonlance Cycle
\nHickamn & Weiss Deathgate Cycle
\nAnything by Raymond E. Feist
\nMichel Moorecock’s “Elric” and “Eternal Champion” series
\nPretty much anything by Michael Crichton
\nPratchett’s Diskworld Saga
\nStephen R. Lawhead – Pendragon Cycle<\/p>\n

Horror<\/b>
\n1. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
\n1592 Perhaps the best realization of the oft told story of selling out to the Devil and the consequences thereof.<\/p>\n

2. William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth
\n1606 Crime, guilt, prophecy, witches, and madness in one of the essential works of the Western Canon.<\/p>\n

3. John Webster The White Devil
\n1612 Supernatural badness (there are only two “good” characters in the story) with poisoning, murder, ghosts, vampires, witchcraft, Satanism, etc. <\/p>\n

4. William Godwin Things As They Are; or: The Adventures of Caleb Williams
\n1794 Written by a political radical, wherein the terror is in the political situation. <\/p>\n

5. Mattew Gregory Lewis The Monk: A Romance
\n1796 Censored in its time, perhapsthe first modern horror story in English. <\/p>\n

6. E.T.A. Hoffmann The Best Tales of Hoffmann
\n1816 Epoch collection of dark fantasy, featuring the pre-Frankenstein story, “The Sand-Man”, exploring the horror of science and artificial life. <\/p>\n

7. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
\n1817 Subversively gentile tale of Gothic horror. <\/p>\n

8. Mary Shelley Frankenstein
\n1818 The horror of man attempting to make Man, truly philosophical Gothic horror. <\/p>\n

9. Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer
\n1820 Tale of un unquiet spirit wandering the Earth, and encountering all manner of frightful, sometimes almost Swiftian, horror. <\/p>\n

10. James Hogg The Privat Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
\n1824 A Scottish Calvinist is lured to the Dark Side of persecution and murder by a doppelg\u00e4nger.<\/p>\n

11. Edgar Allen Poe Tales of Mystery and Imagination
\n1847 The source document in which Poe defines the horror that lurks in the human condition. <\/p>\n

12. Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales
\n1842 The masterful American tales of horror, the supernatural, and even scence fiction. <\/p>\n

13. Jeremias Gotthelf The Black Spider
\n1842 A woman reneges on a pact with the Devil, culminating in a horrible unnatural Birth. <\/p>\n

14.Eug\u00e8ne Sue The Wandering Jew
\n1844 Retelling of the legend of the Jew cursed by Jesus. <\/p>\n

15. Herman Melville The Confidence Man: His Masquerade
\n1857 A supernatural master of disguise who preys on the passengers of a Mississippi river boat. Deeply disturbing, if not overtly horrific. <\/p>\n

16. J. Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bertram-Haugh
\n1864 Classic ghost story of Gothic melodrama. <\/p>\n

17. Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
\n1886 Study of the conflicting good and evil duality of Man.<\/p>\n

18. H. Rider Haggard She
\n1887 African explorers discover a Lost City ruled by an immortal white queen.<\/p>\n

19. Robert W. Chambers The Queen in Yellow
\n1895 Collection of linked short stories built around a play which Dooms those who see it. Immensely influential, from Lovecraft to Raymond Chandler.<\/p>\n

20. H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau
\n1896 The ur-biotech novel, the tale of a modern Frankenstein, wherein Darwin meets Swift meets Mary Shelley.<\/p>\n

21. Bram Stoker Dracula
\n1897 Stoker didn’t invent the vampire story, but herein he did codify it as the essental 20th century horror archetype.<\/p>\n

22. Henry James The Turn of the Screw
\n1898 Ghost stories which welcomed the elements of psychology into literature.<\/p>\n

23. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
\n1902 A man who goes to the end of the world to witness the power of the Dark Side taking over a man’s soul.<\/p>\n

24. Bram Stoker The Jewel of Seven Stars
\n1903 Excellent tale of the supernatural possession of a girl by an ancient Egyptian queen.<\/p>\n

25. M.R. James Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
\n1904 Perhaps the most influential writer on modern horror, his stories both suggestive and downright nasty.<\/p>\n

26. Arthur Machen The House of Souls
\n1906 Masterful tales of often occult horror, explorations of the “secret of things”, the secret underpinnings of reality.<\/p>\n

27. Algernon Blackwood John Silence, Physician Extrordinary
\n1908 Supernatural mysteries solved by a detective Doctor.<\/p>\n

28. G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday
\n1908 “A Nightmare”. A group of anarchists named after days of the week, led by the satanic Sunday.<\/p>\n

29. William Hope Hodgson The House On the Borderland
\n1908 Guy nis projected into a vastly distant Dying Earth future, in a story that is one of the most important influences on H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

30. Ambrose Bierce The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
\n1909 Another extremely influential work of suspence and horror, with such classic tales as “An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge”.<\/p>\n

31. Oliver Onions Widdershins
\n1911 (The title means “counterclockwise”). A collection of classic ghost stories with strong psychological components.<\/p>\n

32. E.F. Benson The Horror Horn: The Best Horror Stories of E.F. Benson
\n1912-34 A lesser known (and under appreciated) but highly competent and important seminal horror writer.<\/p>\n

33. David Lindsay A Voyage To Arcturus
\n1920 Earther is dumped by aliens into a strange interior journey on a surreal planet, a spiritual horror story.<\/p>\n

34. Franz Kafka The Trial
\n1925 Horror springing from the disquieting New Politics of the twentieth century, the paranoia of totalitarian thought.<\/p>\n

35. James Branch Cabell Something About Eve
\n1927 The eleventh part of Cabell’s gigantic metafiction, in which a guy strikes a deal with a demon so as to pursue Adventure, chiefly with dangerous women.<\/p>\n

36. E.H. Visiak Medusa
\n1929 A madman on an abandoned pirate ship leads his rescuers towards monstrous Evil.<\/p>\n

37. Guy Endore The Werewolf of Paris
\n1933 Classic twentieth century take on the werewolf archetype.<\/p>\n

38. Marjorie Bowen The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
\n1933 Classic ghost stories of a romance novel-ish cast.<\/p>\n

39. Alexander Laing The Cadaver of Gideaon Wyck
\n1934 Bizarre medical experiments and demented happenings, in an influential early medical thriller.<\/p>\n

40. Sir Hugh Walpole (ed) A Second Century of Creepy Stories
\n1937 The hands down best horror anthology of stories to this point in time. Many, many classics.<\/p>\n

41. C.S. Lewis The Dark Tower and The Day After Judgement
\n1938 An incomplete novel without an ending, of a parallel world featuring both Lewis himself as narrator and Ransom (from Perelandra).<\/p>\n

42. Dalton Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun
\n1939 Blinded, deafened and made speechless by a battlefield injury, a quadruple amputee who can still reason faces being put on display as a carnival sideshow lesson on the horrors of war.<\/p>\n

43. H.P Lovecraft The Outsider and Others
\n1939 The first book of Lovecraft’s stories, a collection spanning his entire career that is one of the most important horror works of the twentieth century. <\/p>\n

44. Clark Ashton Smith Out of Space and Time
\n1942 The second important Arkham House collection, an excellent selection of stories from Smith’s imagined worlds.<\/p>\n

45. Fritz Leiber Conjure Wife
\n1943 Great story of witchcraft among faculty wives.<\/p>\n

46. Cornell Woolrich Night Has a Thousand Eyes
\n1945 The most supernatural of Woolrich’s stories, with a detective trying to prevent a Prophecy from occuring.<\/p>\n

47. H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth The lurker at the Threshold
\n1945 Mostly Derleth’s work, the systematic portrayal of the Cthulhu Mythos. Eldritch.<\/p>\n

48. Paul Bailey Deliver Me From Eva
\n1946 Lawyer marries the daughter of a Mad Scientist and all sorts of horrific events follow. Tongue in cheek (probably…) pulp-ish fun.<\/p>\n

49. Boris Karloff (ed) And the Darkness Falls
\n1946 Extensive 1940’s collection of classic tales.<\/p>\n

50. August derleth (ed) The Sleeping and the Dead
\n1947 Excellent collection of bothe classic UK ghost stories and some of the best of the American Weird Tales school.<\/p>\n

51. Walter Van Tilburg Clark Track of the Cat 1949 An really interesting Gothic Western that touches on mythology and psychology.<\/p>\n

52. Sarban The Sound oif His Horn
\n1952 Tour de force story of an alternate world of a Nazi victory.<\/p>\n

53. William Golding Lord of the Flies
\n1954 Crashlanded schoolboys form a Civilization that reverts to barbarism.<\/p>\n

54. Richard Matherson I Am Legend
\n1954 Filmed as The Omega Man, a moldern recasting of the vampire legend, as aregular guy battles the Things that were once his fellow humans.<\/p>\n

55. Ray Bradbury The October Country
\n1955 Tne definitive easily availabler collection of Bradbury’s early horror work, culled from Arkham House’s Dark Carnival.<\/p>\n

56. Joseph Payne Brennan Nine Horrors and a Dream
\n1958 Classic collection of Weird Tales material, originally published by Arkham House.<\/p>\n

57. Robert Bloch Psycho
\n1959 The important modern codification of the pscho killer archetype.<\/p>\n

58. Nigel Kneale Quatermass and the Pit
\n1959 Great science fictional horror of a buries five million year old Martian spaceship in London.<\/p>\n

59. H.P. Lovecraft Cry Horror!
\n1959 Re-titling of the classic Ther Lurking Fear, which introducede H.P. to the UK popular reading public.<\/p>\n

60. Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House
\n1959 Excellent and highly influential (especially to film) story of a bunch of folks spending a night in a haunted house.<\/p>\n

61. Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
\n1964 Wildly psychedelic story of bread-and-circuses drugs that create artificial realities.<\/p>\n

62. Jerzy kosinski The Painted Bird
\n1965 A Boy alone wanders the horrors of Nazi dominated Europe.<\/p>\n

63. J.G. Ballard The Crystal World
\n1966 One of four metaphorical disaster stories by Ballard in the early 60’s, about a world turning to Stone.<\/p>\n

64. Robert Aikman Sub Rosa
\n1968 A very Interesting set of ghost stories which feature ambiguity and disturbingly strange events.<\/p>\n

65. Kingsley Amis The Green Man
\n1969 A pub owner starts seeing ghosts, in a story that is both literate and an inspiration (a bit) of John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty.<\/p>\n

66. Anthony Boucher The Compleat Werewolf, and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction
\n1969 The cream of Boucher’s early 1940’s work for John W. Campbell, an excellent collection of wide-ranging stories.<\/p>\n

67. John Gardner Grendel
\n1971 The tale of Beowulf, told from the standpoit of the monster. Excellent fantasy\/tragedy.<\/p>\n

68. William Peter Blatty The Exorcist
\n1971 The influential story that launched a thousand Catholic Fear horror stories and films.<\/p>\n

69. John Brunner The Sheep Look Up
\n1972 The seminal ecological horror story of a ruined Earth.<\/p>\n

70. Manly Wade Wellman Worse Things Waiting
\n1973 Beautiful illustrated edition from Carcosa Press of Wellman’s best work fro the pulps.<\/p>\n

71.Robert Marasco Burnt Offerings
\n1973 New Yorkers move to the country and find themselves in a strange and disturbing house with a Little Old Lady Who Lives Upstairs.<\/p>\n

72. Stephen King ‘Salems’s Lot
\n1975 King’s second book, in which he explores the Dracula material.<\/p>\n

73. Harlan Ellison Deathbird Stories
\n1975 The essential Ellison stories from the 60’s and 70’s, in which Harlan gives the reader advice on how to read the book.<\/p>\n

74. Hugh B. Cave Murgunstrumm and Others
\n1977 Awesome collection. Forty years of the best of Cave’s Weird Tales era output (including a couple of Cthulhu pieces).<\/p>\n

75. Bernard Taylor Sweetheart, Sweetheart
\n1977 Supernatural murder mystery involving a malevolent female spirit.<\/p>\n

76. John Farris All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
\n1977 A seminal treatment of voodoo in a modern horror setting.<\/p>\n

77. Stephen King The Shining
\n1977 Tour de force story of a writer’s descent into madness in a haunted hotel.<\/p>\n

78. William Hjortsberg Falling Angel
\n1978 The basis for the film Angel Heart, an excellent urbanization of voodoo themes.<\/p>\n

79. Whitely Streiber The Wolfen
\n1978 Interesting re-construction of the werewolf theme in an urban setting.<\/p>\n

80. David Morrell The Totem
\n1979 A Wyoming policeman encounters the supernatural in a rationalized look at The Undead.<\/p>\n

81. Peter Straub Ghost Story
\n1979 A successful modern homage to the classic ghost stories of James, Poe, etc.<\/p>\n

82. Jonathan Carroll The Land of Laughs
\n1980 Couple researching an author find his mometown may be the creation of his fantasies. One of the greatest modern fantasies.<\/p>\n

83. Richard Laymon The Cellar
\n1980 Violent, nasty story of a House with a Beast, a story both disturbing and subtle that takes a hard look at what is truly horrifying. The first of the Beast House stories.<\/p>\n

84. Thomas Harris Red Dragon
\n1981 Magnificent and important work in the modern serial killer genre vs. the FBI Guy theme, which introduces Dr. Hannibal Lector.<\/p>\n

85. F. Paul Wilson The Keep
\n1981 Lovecraftian story of an ancient horror unleashed by Nazi soldiers in a Romanian castle.<\/p>\n

86. Deniis Etchison The Dark Country
\n1982 The essental collection of Etchison’s finely crafted American Gothic fiction.<\/p>\n

87. Karl Edward Wagner In a Lonely Place
\n1983 Excellent collection of Wagner’s non-barbarian horror fiction<\/p>\n

88. Tim Powers The Anubis Gates
\n1983 Truly great time travel thriller involving Coleridges London, ancient Egypt, and Souther California.<\/p>\n

89. Robert Irwin The Arabian Nightmare
\n1983 A twisted Arabian Nights story along the line of The Sargossa Manuscript.<\/p>\n

90. Iain Banks The Wasp Factory
\n1984 Horrific incidents in the lives of Scottish islanders, highly controversial at the time of it’s release. Banks’ first book.<\/p>\n

91. T.E.D. Klein The Ceremonies
\n1984 Four people are fooled into easing the way for The Return Of The Elder Gods.<\/p>\n

92. Robert Holdstock Mythago Wood
\n1984 Fantastical pocket Universe in an ancient patch of magical forest where Time and Space are distorted.<\/p>\n

93. Michael Bishop Who Made Stevie Crye?
\n1984 Young widow and freelance writer encounters a weird typewriter repairman, and (often humorous) horror happens.<\/p>\n

94. Dan Simmons The Song of Kali
\n1985 American poet in India encounters the Kali cult.<\/p>\n

95. Clive Barker The Damnation Game
\n1985 Modern deconstruction of the Faust story in the Barker style.<\/p>\n

96. Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor
\n1985 Assistant to Sir Christopher Wren (based on the architect Nicholas Hawsmoor) melds his Satanist beliefs into the design of London churches, tied into a modern murder case involving an Inspector Hawksmoor and a 300 year old doppelganger.<\/p>\n

97. Lisa Tuttle A Nest of Nightmares
\n1986 Great collection of Tuttle’s feminist and domestic horror stories from the early 80’s.<\/p>\n

98. Charles L. Grant The Pet
\n1986 Confused adolescent copes by being able to will Creature of the Imagination into existence.<\/p>\n

99. Robert McCammon Swan Song
\n1987 Post-nuclear war quest story even more ambitious than King’s The Stand.<\/p>\n

100. Ramsey Campbell Dark Feasts
\n1987 The author’s own choice for the cream of his horror story output, an excellent collection.
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