Genre :: Fantasy (92 books)

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  #295

  The Tartar Steppe

  by Dino Buzzati

  (1 Review)

  72 Points

  "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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  #300

  Shadow of the Torturer

  by Gene Wolfe

  (4 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "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 -..."

  

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  #316

  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  by Neil Gaiman

  (9 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "It was a nice day."

  

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  #327

  Dhalgren

  by Samuel R. Delany

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "To wound the autumnal city."

  

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  #330

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  by Oscar Wilde

  (18 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amid the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more..."

  

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  #344

  A Wizard of Earthsea

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (6 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."

  

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  #347

  Gormenghast

  by Mervyn Peake

  (2 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something..."

  

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  #351

  The BFG

  by Roald Dahl

  (12 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "Sophie couldn't sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right onto her pillow."

  

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  #356

  Sophie's World

  by Jostein Gaarder

  (9 Reviews)

  60 Points

  "Sophie Amundsen was on her way home from school."

  

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  #365

  A Wild Sheep Chase

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition."

  

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