Particularly recommended: A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
The story told in A Winter’s Tale begins in the late 19th century, jumping abruptly, in mid-course, to the year 2000. Its focus is a series of interconnected heroic lives, chief of which is that of Peter Lake, orphan, burglar, lover, idealist, mechanic first-class.
Seized by the police as a public danger, Peter Lake is incarcerated in the Overweary Home for Lunatic Boys, an early metropolitan slave labor camp, but he’s swiftly advanced to the home’s elite: 50 lads serving unpaid apprenticeships under the tutelage of a splendidly Dickensian Reverend Mootfowl, ”mad craftsman, a genius of tools.”
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
- The Lord of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
- A Demon’s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
- A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
- The Farseer by Robert Hobb
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Thomas Covenant – The Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
- The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
- The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray