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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Daniel Abraham
• Balfour & Meriwether: The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs

Tim Akers
• The Horns of Ruin

Melissa Albert
• The Children

Alma Alexander
• The Secrets of Jin-Shei

Lloyd Alexander
• The Book of Three
• The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
• Gypsy Rizka
• The House Gobbaleen, illustrated by Diane Goode

Cornelia Amiri
• Druid Quest

Poul Anderson
• The Broken Sword
• Hrolf Kraki's Saga

Poul Anderson & Mildred Downey Broxon
• The Demon of Scattery

Ilona Andrews
• Magic Bites
• Magic Burns

David Artuso
• Bear Goddess

Robert Asprin
• Another Fine Myth
• Hit or Myth
• Little Myth Marker
• Myth Alliances, with Jody Lynn Nye
• Myth Conceptions
• Myth Directions
• M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action
• M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link
• Myth-ing Persons
• Myth-ion Improbable
• Myth-nomers & Im-pervections
• Sweet Myth-tery of Life

Edward Aubry
• Static Mayhem

Avi
• Midnight Magic

Len Bailey
• Clabbernappers
• Fantasms

Alison Baird
• The Hidden World

E.D. Baker
• The Frog Princess

Kage Baker
• The Anvil of the World
• The Women of Nell Gwynne's

Kage Baker & Kathleen Bartholomew
• Nell Gwynne's On Land & at Sea

Lynne Reid Banks
• The Adventures of King Midas

Clive Barker
• Abarat

Lawrence Barker
• Mother Feral's Love

Jeffrey E. Barlough
• Dark Sleeper
• Strange Cargo

Jonathan Barnes
• The Domino Men

Steven Barnes
• Lion's Blood
• Zulu Heart

T.A. Barron
• Heartlight
• Tree Girl

Peter S. Beagle
• The Last Unicorn

Elizabeth Bear
• New Amsterdam
• Promethean Age #2: Whiskey & Water
• Promethean Age #3: Ink & Steel
• Promethean Age #4: Hell & Earth
• Seven for a Secret

Aiden Beaverson
• The Hidden Arrow of Maether

Everette Bell
• The Mourning Edge of Iron

Hilari Bell
• The Farsala Trilogy #2: Rise of a Hero
• The Farsala Trilogy #3: Forging the Sword

Curt Benjamin
• Lords of Grass & Thunder
• Seven Brothers #1: The Prince of Shadows
• Seven Brothers #2: The Prince of Dreams
• Seven Brothers #3: The Gates of Heaven

Amber Benson & Christopher Golden
• Ghosts of Albion: Accursed
• Ghosts of Albion: Initiation
• Ghosts of Albion: Witchery

Carol Berg
• The Bridge of D'Arnath #1: Son of Avonar
• The Bridge of D'Arnath #2: Guardians of the Keep
• Restoration
• Song of the Beast

Kaitlin Bevis
• Daughters of Zeus, No. 1: Persephone
• Daughters of Zeus, No. 2: Daughter of Earth & Sky
• Daughters of Zeus, No. 3: The Iron Queen

Franny Billingsley
• The Folk Keeper

Anne Bishop
• The Black Jewels Trilogy
(omnibus: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness)
• The Invisible Ring

Julia Blackburn
• The Leper's Companions

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
• Red Riding Hood

James P. Blaylock
• In for a Penny
• Langdon St. Ives: The Adventure of the Ring of Stones
• Langdon St. Ives: The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs
• Langdon St. Ives: The Ebb Tide

Elizabeth Boyer
• Wizard's War #1: The Troll's Grindstone
• Wizard's War #2: The Curse of Slagfid
• World of the Alfar #1: The Sword & the Satchel
• World of the Alfar #2: The Elves & the Otterskin
• World of the Alfar #3: The Thrall & the Dragon's Heart
• World of the Alfar #4: The Wizard & the Warlord

P.J. Brackston
• Gretel & the Case of the Missing Frog Prints

Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Ages of Chaos
  (omnibus: Stormqueen, Hawkmistress)
• The Clingfire Trilogy #1: The Fall of Neskaya, with Deborah J. Ross
• The Clingfire Trilogy #2: Zandru's Forge, with Deborah J. Ross
• The Clingfire Trilogy #3: A Flame in Hali, with Deborah J. Ross
• The Firebrand
• The Forbidden Circle
  (omnibus: The Spell Sword & The Forbidden Tower)
• Heritage & Exile
  (omnibus: The Heritage of Hastur, Sharra's Exile)
• The Mists of Avalon
• Priestess of Avalon, with Diana Paxson
• The Saga of the Renunciates
  (omnibus: The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, City of Sorcery)
• Sword & Sorceress XX (editor)
• To Save a World
  (omnibus: The World Wreckers, The Planet Savers)
• Traitor's Sun
• A World Divided
  (omnibus: The Bloody Sun, Star of Danger, The Winds of Darkover)

Gillian Bradshaw
• Hawk of May
• Kingdom of Summer
• In Winter's Shadow
• The Wolf Hunt

Chaz Brenchley
• The Devil in the Dust (The First Book of Outremer)
• Tower of the King's Daughter (The Second Book of Outremer)
• A Dark Way to Glory (The Third Book of Outremer)
• Feast of the King's Shadow (The Fourth Book of Outremer)
• The End of All Roads (The Sixth Book of Outremer)

Herbie Brennan
• Faerie Wars
• Fairy Nuff: A Tale of Bluebell Wood

Noel-Anne Brennan
• The Blood of the Land

Sarah Rees Brennan
• The Lynburn Legacy, No. 1: Unspoken

Heather Brewer
• Legacy of Tril #1: Soulbound

D. Barkley Briggs
• Legends of Karac Tor: The Book of Names

K.M. Briggs
• Kate Crackernuts

Patricia Briggs
• Dragon Blood
• The Hob's Bargain

Kristen Britain
• First Rider's Call

Brom
• Slewfoot

Terry Brooks
• Genesis of Shannara #3: The Gypsy Morph
• The Sword of Shannara

Simon Brown
• Keys of Power #1: Inheritance
• Keys of Power #2: Fire & Sword
• Keys of Power #3: Sovereign

N.M. Browne
• Basilisk
• Hunted
• Warriors of Alavna
• Warriors of Camlann

Mildred Downey Broxon
• The Demon of Scattery, with Poul Anderson
• Too Long a Sacrifice

Steven Brust
• The Book of Athyra
(omnibus: Athyra, Orca)
• Dzur
• To Reign in Hell

Michael Buckley
• The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives, Book 1

Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Spirit Ring

Emma Bull
• Territory

Chris Bunch
• Dragonmaster

D. Kim Burnham
• The Bureau of Resurrection

Richard Lee Byers
• Forgotten Realms: War of the Spider Queen, Book I: Dissolution

Dia Calhoun
• Aria of the Sea
• Firegold

Peter Cannon
• The Lovecraft Chronicles

Orson Scott Card
• Heartfire
• Seventh Son
• Stonefather

Jacqueline Carey
• Kushiel's Chosen
• Kushiel's Dart

Gail Carriger
• The Parasol Protectorate #1: Soulless
• The Parasol Protectorate #2: Changeless
• The Parasol Protectorate #3: Blameless
• The Parasol Protectorate #4: Heartless

Angela Carter
• The Bloody Chamber

Kristin Cashore
• Bitterblue

Michael Chabon, editor
• McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

Vera Chapman
• The Green Knight

Dan Chernenko
• The Scepter of Mercy #1: The Bastard King
• The Scepter of Mercy #2: The Chernagor Pirates

C.J. Cherryh
• Arafel's Saga
• The Collected Short Fiction
• Fortress in the Eye of Time
• Fortress of Eagles
• Fortress of Owls
• Fortress of Dragons

Deborah Chester
• The King Betrayed
• The Queen's Gambit

Ted Chiang
• The Merchant & the Alchemist's Gate

James C. Christensen, with Renwick St. James & Alan Dean Foster
• Voyage of the Basset

Douglas Glenn Clark
• The Lake That Stole Children

Alana Clarke
• The Phoenix Orb

David Clement-Davies
• Fire Bringer
• The Sight

David B. Coe
• Eagle-Sage
• Rules of Ascension

Wim Coleman & Pat Perrin
• The Taker & the Keeper

James Lincoln Collier
• The Empty Mirror

Shalanna Collins
• Dulcinea, or Wizardry A-Flute

Judith Woolcock Colombo
• The Fablesinger

Tina Connolly
• Ironskin

Kate Constable
• Chanters of Tremaris #1: The Singer of All Songs

Dawn Cook
• First Truth
• Hidden Truth
• Princess at Sea

Glen Cook
• Angry Lead Skies
• The Black Company
• Shadows Linger
• The White Rose

Bruce Coville
• Oddly Enough

Andrew D. Crastley
• Keepers of Runes & the Tower of Shadows

Justin Cronin
• The Passage

Kevin Crossley-Holland
• Arthur, Book I: The Seeing Stone

Elaine Cunningham
• Forgotten Realms: Starlight & Shadows 3: Windwalker

Leah R. Cutter
• The Caves of Buda
• Paper Mage

Kara Dalkey
• The Ascension (Water Trilogy, Book 1)

Cecilia Dart-Thornton
• The Bitterbynde #3: The Battle of Evernight

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors
• Black Heart, Ivory Bones
• Black Swan, White Raven
• Black Thorn, White Rose
• The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
• Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
• Salon Fantastique
• Silver Birch, Blood Moon
• Sirens & Other Daemon Lovers
• Snow White, Blood Red
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 12th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 14th edition

Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, editors
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 18th annual edition

Peter David
• Sir Apropos of Nothing

Liz DeJesus
• First Frost

Joseph Delaney
• The Last Apprentice #1: Revenge of the Witch

Charles de Lint
• Eyes Like Leaves
• A Handful of Coppers
• The Harp of the Grey Rose
• The Little Country
• The Riddle of the Wren
• Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks
• Wolf Moon

Antoine de Saint-Exepury
• Le Petit Prince

Lauren DeStefano
• Internment Chronicles #1: Perfect Ruin

Donald B. Dewar
• Jack's Dad & the Beanstalk

Emily Diamand
• Raiders' Ransom

Peter Dickinson
• The Ropemaker
• Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, with Robin McKinley

Cameron Dokey
• Golden

Julia Donaldson
• The Giants & the Joneses

Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book I: Lord Foul's Bane
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book II: The Illearth War
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book III: The Power That Preserves
• The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book I: The Wounded Land
• The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book II: The One Tree
• The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book III: White Gold Wielder
• The Runes of the Earth: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Emma Donoghue
• Kissing the Witch

Keith Donohue
• The Stolen Child

Nolene-Patricia Dougan
• Vrolok

Sara Douglass
• Starman
• Threshold
• The Troy Game#1: Hades' Daughter

Diane Duane
• Omnitopia #1: Omnitopia Dawn
• Stealing the Elf-King's Roses

Dave Duncan
• The Alchemist's Apprentice
• Children of Chaos
• The Jaguar Knights

Mark Dunn
• Ella Minnow Pea: a Progressively Lippogrammatic Epistolary Fable

Lord Dunsany
• The Charwoman's Shadow
• The King of Elfland's Daughter

Frederic S. Durbin
• The Star Shard

Doranna Durgin
• Feral Darkness

David Anthony Durham
• The War with the Mein #1: Acacia

Sean Eads & Joshua Viola
• Servants of Stone

David Eagleman
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eddings
• Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad #1)
• Queen of Sorcery (The Belgariad #2)
• Magician's Gambit (The Belgariad #3)
• Castle of Wizardry (The Belgariad #4)
• Enchanters' End Game (The Belgariad #5)
• The Rivan Codex, with Leigh Eddings

Rosemary Edghill & Andre Norton
• The Shadow of Albion: Carolus Rex Book I

Kate Elliott
• Crossroads #1: Spirit Gate
• The Gathering Storm

Patricia Elliott
• Murkmere

Sharon Emmerichs
• Shield Maiden

Jennifer Fales
• Shadows & Fire

S.L. Farrell
• The Cloudmages #1: Holder of Lightning
• The Cloudmages #2: Mage of Clouds

Heather Fawcett
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries

David Feintuch
• The King

Charles Coleman Finlay
• The Prodigal Troll

Catherine Fisher
• Snow-walker

Jude Fisher
• Fool's Gold #1: Sorcery Rising
• Fool's Gold #2: Wild Magic
• Fool's Gold #3: The Rose of the World

Lynn Flewelling
• Nightrunners #1: Luck in the Shadows
• Nightrunners #2: Stalking Darkness
• Nightrunners #3: Traitor's Moon

Jeffrey Ford
• The Empire of Ice Cream

Jodie Forrest
• The Rhymer & the Ravens

Kate Forsyth
• The Witches of Eileanan #6: The Fathomless Caves

Alan Dean Foster
• Dinotopia Lost
• Voyage of the Basset, with Renwick St. James, illustrated by James C. Christensen

Diana Pharaoh Francis
• Path of Fate

Lorna Freeman
• Covenants
• The King's Own

Esther Friesner, editor
• Chicks in Chainmail
• Chicks 'n Chained Males
• Did You Say Chicks?!
• The Chick is in the Mail

Bret M. Funk
• Boundary's Fall #1: Path of Glory
• Boundary's Fall #2: Sword of Honor

Monica Furlong
• Colman

Neil Gaiman
• M is for Magic
• Norse Mythology
• The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
• Stardust
• Two Plays for Voices: Snow Glass Apples, Murder Mysteries

Ginger Garrett
• Chronicles of the Scribe #2: In the Arms of Immortals

Randall Garrett
• Murder & Magic

David Gemmell
• Sword in the Storm (Rigante #1)

Mary Gentle
• Rats & Gargoyles
• 1610: A Sundial in a Grave
• Worlds That Weren't, with Harry Turtledove, et al

Jessica Day George
• Princess of the Midnight Ball
• Tuesdays at the Castle

Jeffrey Getzin
• The Bryanae #1: Prince of Bryanae

Kurt R.A. Giambastiani
• From the Heart of the Storm
• Shadow of the Storm

Jayel Gibson
• Damselflies
• The Wrekening

Rachel Gillig
• The Shepherd King #1: One Dark Window
• The Stonewater Kingdom #1: The Knight & the Moth

ElizaBeth Gilligan
• Silken Magic #1: Magic's Silken Snare

Isabel Glass
• Daughter of Exile

Christopher Golden
• Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier & the Vampire, with Mike Mignola
• Ghosts of Albion: Accursed, with Amber Benson
• Ghosts of Albion: Initiation, with Amber Benson
• Ghosts of Albion: Witchery, with Amber Benson

William Goldman
• The Princess Bride

Lisa Goldstein
• Daughter of Exile, writing as Isabel Glass

Barbara Gowdy
• The White Bone

Ian Graham
• Monument

Margaret Gray
• The Ugly Princess & the Wise Fool

Richard Gray
• The Piaculum

Simon R. Green
• Agents of Light & Darkness
• Deathstalker Legacy
• Nightingale's Lament

Martin H. Greenberg, editor
• Apprentice Fantastic, with Russel Davis
• Horrible Beginnings, with Steven H. Silver
• Knight Fantastic, with John Helfers
• Magical Beginnings, with Steven H. Silver
• Pharaoh Fantastic, with Brittiany A. Koren

Jim Grimsley
• Kirith Kirin

Val Gunn
• In the Shadow of Swords

Thorarinn Gunnarsson
• Song of the Dwarves
• Revenge of the Valkyrie

Lia Habel
• Dearly, Departed

Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Just Ella

Shannon Hale
• Book of a Thousand Days
• Enna Burning
• The Goose Girl
• Princess Academy

J.C. Hall
• Lady of the Lakes

Barbara Hambly
• Dragonstar
• Sisters of the Raven

Karen Hancock
• Legends of the Guardian King, Book 1: Light of Eidon
• Legends of the Guardian King, Book 2: The Shadow Within

Mette Ivie Harrison
• The Princess & the Hound

Rachel Hartman
• Among Ghosts
• Seraphina

Merrie Haskell
• The Princess Curse

Heather Hayashi
• To Save the World

Elizabeth Haydon
• Rhapsody: Child of Blood

Julie Hearn
• Sign of the Raven

Lian Hearn
• Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book I
• Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori, Book II

Robert A. Heinlein
• Glory Road
• Waldo & Magic Inc.

Barb & J.C. Hendee
• Dhampir
• Thief of Lives

James A. Hetley
• The Summer Country
• The Winter Oak

Tracy & Laura Hickman
• Mystic Warrior

Beth Hilgartner
• A Necklace of Fallen Stars

Debora Elizabeth Hill & Sandra Brandenburg
• Lost Myths Saga, Vol. I: The Land of the Wand

Jim C. Hines
• Princess Novels #1: The Stepsister Scheme

Robin Hobb
• Shaman's Crossing

Mary Hoffman
• Stravaganza: City of Masks
• Stravaganza: City of Stars

Nancy Holder
• Spirited

Cecelia Holland
• The Angel & the Sword

Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman, editors
• Tesseracts Nine

Sarah A. Hoyt
• Ill Met by Moonlight

Tanya Huff
• Fifth Quarter
• Sing the Four Quarters
• Stealing Magic
• Wizard of the Grove
(omnibus: Child of the Grove, The Last Wizard)

Barry Hughart
• Bridge of Birds

Faith Hunter
• Rogue Mage #1: Bloodring

Eva Ibbotson
• The Secret of Platform 13
• Which Witch?

Alex Irvine
• Unintended Consequences

Liam Jackson
• Offspring

Marie Jakober
• The Black Chalice
• Even the Stones

Roby James
• Beyond the Hedge

Randall Jarrell
• The Animal Family

Kij Johnson
• The Fox Woman
• Fudoki

Diana Wynne Jones
• Charmed Life
• Dark Lord of Derkholm
• Howl's Moving Castle
• The Magicians of Caprona

Frewin Jones
• The Faerie Path #3: The Sorcerer King

Robert Jordan
• The Wheel of Time, Book 1: The Eye of the World

Norton Juster
• The Phantom Tollbooth, illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Daniel Kamin
• Ruby of the Realms

Phyllis Ann Karr
• Frostflower & Thorn

Robert F. Kauffmann
• The Mask of Ollock

Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Fionavar Tapestry #1: The Summer Tree
• The Fionavar Tapestry #2: The Wandering Fire
• The Fionavar Tapestry #3: The Darkest Road
• The Last Light of the Sun
• The Lions of Al-Rassan
• The Sarantine Mosaic #1: Sailing to Sarantium
• The Sarantine Mosaic #2: Lord of Emperors
• A Song For Arbonne
• Tigana

Marvin Kaye, editor
• The Dragon Quintet
• Witches & Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic Old & New

Paul Kearney
• The Second Empire
• Ships from the West

Jordan S. Keller
• A Sea of Ships & Souls

Marjorie B. Kellogg
• The Dragon Quartet #4: The Book of Air

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
• Blackmantle
• The Deer's Cry

Raven Kennedy
• The Plated Prisoner #1: Gild
• The Plated Prisoner #2: Glint
• The Plated Prisoner #3: Gleam
• The Plated Prisoner #4: Glow

Carolyn Kephart
• Ryel Saga #1: Wysard
• Ryel Saga #2: Lord Brother

Peg Kerr
• Emerald House Rising

Patrice Kindl
• Lost in the Labyrinth

Mindy L. Klasky
• The Glasswrights' Journeyman
• The Glasswrights' Test

Jackie French Koller
• The Keepers #1: A Wizard Named Nell

Robert Kroese
• Mercury Falls

Kaoru Kurimoto
• The Guin Saga Book 1: The Leopard Mask

Katherine Kurtz
• Deryni Tales, editor
• In the King's Service

Ellen Kushner
• The Fall of the Kings, with Delia Sherman
• Swordspoint
• Thomas the Rhymer

Mercedes Lackey
• Alta
• The Black Swan
• Brightly Burning
• Exile's Honor
• Exile's Valor
• The Fairy Godmother
• The Firebird
• The Fire Rose
• The Gates of Sleep
• Joust
• Phoenix & Ashes
• The River's Gift
• The Serpent's Shadow
• Sun in Glory & Other Tales of Valdemar, editor
• Take a Thief
• Trio of Sorcery
• The Valdemar Companion, edited by John Helfers & Denise Little