Read The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth
Read The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy series, and also read Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, a collection of stories and essays expanding on Middle-earth lore.
Read The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy series, and also read Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, a collection of stories and essays expanding on the lore of Middle-earth.
Journey through Middle-earth's epic saga. One book at a time, forge your own legend.
The five published volumes of Martin's saga, A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Dragons.
A torturer, a barbarian and a vain officer in Abercrombie's First Law; grimdark begins.
Jacob Frank, an 18th-century Jewish messiah, across Poland and Turkey in 900 pages numbered backwards.
Five parts, a missing German novelist and the murdered women of Santa Teresa; Bolano's unfinished monument.
Rand al Thor leaves the Two Rivers with an Aes Sedai; the Wheel of Time begins its fourteen books.
Kvothe tells his own legend from behind an inn counter; the third book is still not out.
Bridge crews, highstorms and Shardblades on Roshar; the Stormlight Archive begins at 1,000 pages.
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan from 1910; Min Jin Lee's epic.
Warlords, strategists and the fall of the Han; the Chinese epic every game borrows.
Cersei rules, Brienne searches and half the cast is elsewhere.
A superflu kills 99% of humanity and the survivors gather in Boulder and Las Vegas; King's epic.
Winter is coming, Ned Stark rides south and the Wall; the first of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Four families and a mother's search for a husband for Lata in 1950s India; 1,349 pages.
Two retired Texas Rangers drive cattle to Montana; the western as great American novel.
Six nested stories from 1849 to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii; Mitchell's puzzle box.
Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.
Five kings, a red comet and the Battle of the Blackwater.
Daenerys in Meereen, Tyrion on a boat and Jon at the Wall; the last published volume, from 2011.
The Red Wedding and the Purple Wedding; the best of the series.
From the 1951 home run to the Cold War's waste; DeLillo's 800-page America.
A tennis academy, a halfway house and a film so entertaining it kills; 1,079 pages and 388 endnotes.
Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley across two generations; Steinbeck's own favourite.
Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.
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