 | City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1) by Tad Williams
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 An amazing series, on the border between fantasy and science fiction. I include it here because of the element of dreaming involved.
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 | Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1) by Stephen R. Donaldson
Buy new: $21.37 / Used from: $3.39 This is a masterpiece; Thomas Covenant is the archetype of an anti-hero. The complexity and detail of the "Land" is unmatched.
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 | Listening Day by David Patrick Greene
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $28.79 Set in a magical landscape defined by the "Mists," the story explores the mystery of dreams, the value of myths, and having to live within 'limits'.
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 | American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.98 This novel is amazing--like everything else Neil Gaiman has written!
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 | Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $5.23 Fact?! Fiction? Whatever--it's fun. You know you want to believe!
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 | The Fellowship of the Talisman by Clifford D. Simak
Buy used from: $0.95 This book is hard to find, but worth the search; set in an alternate-history 1975 where the dark ages never ended.
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 | The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.17 Obviously you've already read The Lord of the Rings--this book is worth exploring as well.
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 | A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $5.10 I throw this under fantasy for its "alternate history" qualities and its speculations on religion and "sacred scriptures".
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