Fantasy 100

Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1988)

by James Cawthorn & Michael Moorcock

Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
The Castle of Otranto (1765) by Horace Walpole
Vathek (1786) by William Beckford
The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melvillle
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) by J. Sheridan LeFanu
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll
Flatland (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott
She (1886) by Henry Rider Haggard
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twilight of the Gods (1888) by Richard Garnett
The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891) by William Morris
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by G.K. Chesterton
The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hodgson
Black Magic (1909) by Marjorie Bowen
Zuleika Dobson (1911) by Max Beerbohm
A Princess of Mars (1911) byEdgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Night Land (1912) by William Hope Hodgson
Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Citadel of Fear (1918) by Francis Stevens
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) by David Lindsay
The Worm Ouroboros (1922) by E.R. Eddison
The Haunted Woman (1922) by David Lindsay
Lady Into Fox (1922) by David Garnett
A Man in the Zoo (1924) by David Garnett
The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924) by Lord Dunsany
The Ship of Ishtar (1926) by Abraham Merritt
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
Witch Wood (1927) by John Buchan
War in Heaven (1930) by Charles Williams
Turnabout (1931) by Thorne Smith
The Night Life of the Gods (1931) by Thorne Smith
Dwellers in the Mirage (1932) by Abraham Merritt
Zothique (1932-1951) by Clark Ashton Smith
The Werewolf of Paris (1933) by Guy Endore
Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton
Northwest Smith (1933-1940) by Catherine L. Moore
Jirel of Joiry (1934-1939) by Catherine L. Moore
The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935) by Charles G. Finney
Land Under England (1935) by Joseph O’Neill
Conan the Conqueror (1935-1936) by Robert E. Howard
At the Mountains of Madness (1936) by H.P. Lovecraft
To Walk the Night (1937) by William Sloane
Roads (1938) by Seabury Quinn
The Once and Future King (1939-1977) by T.H. White
Slaves of Sleep (1939) by L. Ron Hubbard
Caravan for China (1939) by Frank R. Stuart
Fear (1940) by L. Ron Hubbard
Darker Than You Think (1940) by Jack Williamson
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941) by H.P. Lovecraft
Land of Unreason (1941) by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp
Conjure Wife (1943) by Fritz Lieber
The Book of Ptath (1943) by A.E. van Vogt
The Dark World (1946) by Henry Kuttner
The Valley of the Flame (1946) by Henry Kuttner
Titus Groan (1946) by Mervyn Peake
Gormenghast (1950) by Mervyn Peake
Titus Alone (1959) by Mervyn Peake
The Exploits of Engelbrecht (1946) by Maurice Richardson
Mistress Masham’s Repose (1946) by T.H. White
Adept’s Gambit (1947) by Fritz Lieber
The Well of the Unicorn (1948) by Fletcher Pratt
You’re All Alone (1950) by Fritz Lieber
The Dying Earth (1950) by Jack Vance
The Devil in Velvet (1951) by John Dickson Carr
The Tritonian Ring (1951) by L. Sprague de Camp
Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953) by Poul Anderson
The Sword of Rhiannon (1953) by Leigh Brackett
The Broken Sword (1954) by Poul Anderson
The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Golden Strangers (1956) by Henry Treece
The Great Captains (1956) by Henry Treece
The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson
Stormbringer (1963) by Michael Moorcock
The Serpent (1963) by Jane Gaskell
Atlan (1965) by Jane Gaskell
The City (1966) by Jane Gaskell
Some Summer Lands (1977) by Jane Gaskell
The Crystal World (1964) by J.G. Ballard
Black Easter (1967) by James Blish
The Day After Judgement (1968) by James Blish
Rosemary’s Baby (1967) Ira Levin
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Green Man (1969) by Kingsley Amis
Neither the Sea nor the Sand (1969) by Gordon Honeycombe
The Philosopher’s Stone (1969) by Colin Wilson
The Pastel City (1971) by M. John Harrison
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman (1972) by Angela Carter
Red Shift (1973) by Alan Garner
The Compleat Enchanter (1975) by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
The Alteration (1976) by Kingsley Amis
Our Lady of Darkness (1976) by Fritz Lieber
The Drawing of the Dark (1979) by Tim Powers
The Sending (1980) by Geoffrey Household
The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic (1983) by Terry Pratchett
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (1984) by Thomas Disch
Hawksmoor (1985) by Peter Ackroyd
Expecting Someone Taller (1987) by Tom Holt

There are 111 books on this list by my count. Shocking how few I have read.

24/111 seems like a poor percentage to me.