Approved Literature

/tg/ Approved Literature

We're imaginative folks here on /tg/, and there's a lot of tuff which insites this.

Fantasy

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and anything else he wrote: The great grand-daddy of modern fantasy. at Not having even the slightest familiarity with his work is inexcusable
Michael Moorcock - the Elric Saga - The spiritual liege of Drizzt Do Urden, with all of the Mary Sue replaced with badassery. Elric, the High Lord of Chaos, travels reality with a shadow puma and a soul-eating demon sword learning the true nature of Chaos.
Robert E. Howard - Conan the Barbarian: Conan the Barbarian was born from this quill. A seminal pulp classic which could be considered the father of sword and sorcery.
George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire: Best character development in genre, with a bit of mystery, political chess and realistically high death rate.
Terry Pratchett - Discworld series: Starts from parodying Fantasy as genre, finishes far beyond AWESOME. Rare combination of good humor and wise messages.
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind: A mary sue bard goes on mary sue adventures - world building may be weak but it's a fun read, so enough people on /tg/ have read it to count, even though nobody will praise it.
Brandon Carbaugh - Deep Sounding: A two-part story written by a fa/tg/uy, dealing with themes of isolation in a Dwarven society. Consistently humorous and socially relevant.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars: Iconic, manly, and fuckin' A!
Frank Herbert - Dune & its sequels: World-building, politic, super-humans - it's one helluva party. The spice must flow!
Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers: Where Space Marines and Tyranids came from.
Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The most creepy in this book is that author thought it is optimistic. If he some day want to wrote something pessimistic, universe would implode from grimdark overdose.
George Orwell - 1984: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
A Canticle for Leibowitz In the grim darkness of the far future there is only Catholicism. Think Fallout meets Farenheit 451 and you wouldn't be too far off.

H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulu & Other Stories, Dreams in the Witch-House, At the Mountains of Madness, and anything else he wrote - Lovecraft is to modern horror what Tolkein was to fantasy.