Twenty-eight years on an island with a goat, a parrot and Friday; the first English novel.
Milton's Satan, the most charismatic villain in English verse, and the Fall told in twelve books.
Lovers, fairies and a weaver with a donkey's head in an Athenian wood.
Iago whispers and the Moor of Venice believes him; the tragedy of a handkerchief.
Two households in Verona and five days from the ball to the tomb.
A king divides his kingdom among his daughters and goes mad on the heath.
Three witches, one prophecy and a Scottish couple who take it literally; the short, bloody one.
The prince, the ghost and the delay; the most quoted play in English.
Scheherazade keeps herself alive with Sinbad, Aladdin and Ali Baba, a story a night.
Pilgrims to Becket's shrine tell stories to pass the road; the Miller's is the rude one.
Ten young Florentines tell a hundred stories while the plague rages; the first modern prose.
Dante through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with Virgil and Beatrice; read the Inferno at least.
Two hundred and fifty myths of transformation in one poem; where the Renaissance got its gods.
Aeneas from burning Troy to the founding of Rome; Virgil's answer to Homer.
Fifty days of the Trojan War, the rage of Achilles and the death of Hector; the first book of the West.
Alex and his droogs in Nadsat slang, and the Ludovico cure; Burgess's 1962 novel, not the film.
Offred's Gilead, told in the present tense as if it were already here.
Zamyatin's 1921 glass city of numbers; the book Orwell and Huxley both borrowed from.
The saga ends at Stygga castle and Rivia, with the ending fans still argue about.
Ciri hunted across the winter by Bonhart and Skellen, and the Tower where time is different.
Geralt's company forms on the road south: Dandelion, Milva, Cahir, Regis and Zoltan.
The mages meet on Thanedd and the coup scatters everyone across the continent.
The saga proper begins: Ciri trains at Kaer Morhen while the kingdoms prepare for war.
Six stories, and the one where Geralt finds a girl named Ciri in Brokilon forest.
The first Geralt collection: the striga, the djinn and how he met Yennefer.
Night City between the corporate wars, the current edition of the Pondsmith line that Cyberpunk 2077 was built on.
A crew of thieves in a city lit by demon blood, where the heist is planned backwards through flashbacks instead of at the table.
Paizo's continuation of D&D's third edition after Wizards moved on, with the Golarion setting and its book-length adventure paths.
Vampires in a modern city hiding from mortals and from each other; the game that put clan politics ahead of dungeons.
Magic returned to a 2050s corporate world, so elves and orks now run cyberware-assisted espionage against the megacorps.
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