18 Best fiction books like Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons by Peter Bebergal

Cover of Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons by Peter Bebergal

Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

By: Peter Bebergal

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Drawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dunge…

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Cover of Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson

1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

Cover of Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2) by Kentaro Miura, Jason DeAngelis

2. Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)

By: Kentaro Miura , Jason DeAngelis

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)

Cover of Imaro: The Quest for Cush (Imaro #2) by Charles R. Saunders

3. Imaro: The Quest for Cush (Imaro #2)

By: Charles R. Saunders

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

It begins with the reunion of Imaro and his kidnapped lover Tanisha, who has been taken to the ruin… read more

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  • sword and sorcery
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Face In The Frost by John Bellairs

4. The Face In The Frost

By: John Bellairs

3.81

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative stor… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"If I were serious I would never have become a wizard, would I?"

-John Bellairs, The Face In The Frost

"I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house."

-John Bellairs, The Face In The Frost

"Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead."

-John Bellairs, The Face In The Frost

"He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on the door, was capable of keeping out anyone who did not want to smash his way…"

-John Bellairs, The Face In The Frost

Cover of Roadside Picnic by Theodore Sturgeon, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis, None

5. Roadside Picnic

By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

Cover of Night's Master  (Tales from the Flat Earth #1) by Tanith Lee

6. Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

By: Tanith Lee

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Azhrarn, Prince of Demons, delights in creating amazing rewards, dangers, and horrors for the inhab… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
"Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified."

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

"When the night burned its cloak in the sunrise..."

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

"Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine"

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

"and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event"

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

Cover of Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5) by Terry Pratchett

7. Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy) The… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Er wollte sagen: Wie könnt ihr so nett und gleichzeitig so dumm sein?"

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

"So funktioniert die Geschichte leider nicht. Erst das Blut, dann der Verstand."

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

"Und jetzt sink auf die Knie, wenn du nicht auf andere Weise kleiner werden willst."

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

"Der Mann schien für seine Freunde mindestens ebenso gefährlich zu sein wie für seine Feinde."

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

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8. Psychogeography (Pocket Essential series)

By: Merlin Coverley

3.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Psychogeography. Increasingly this term is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from key… read more

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9. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of From Hell by Alan             Moore, Eddie Campbell, Pete Mullins

10. From Hell

By: Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell , Pete Mullins

4.19

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim… read more

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  • fiction
"It would seem we are to suffer an apocalypse of cockatoos - William Gull"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

Cover of The Naked Sun (Robot #2) by Isaac Asimov

11. The Naked Sun (Robot #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

12. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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Cover of At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, China Miéville, S.T. Joshi

13. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

14. The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)

By: Robert E. Howard , Mark Schultz , Patrice Louinet

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellaneadrafts, notes, maps by author. Cimmeria … read more

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15. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

Cover of Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know by Bryan Talbot, David   Lloyd, Mark Buckingham, Jamie Delano, Richard Piers Rayner

16. Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know

By: Bryan Talbot , David Lloyd , Mark Buckingham , Jamie Delano , Richard Piers Rayner

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

To Hell and Back It's been a long and difficult road for John Constantine – one that's left him wi… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine"

-Bryan Talbot, Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know

"People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine"

-Bryan Talbot, Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know

17. The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)

By: Jack Vance

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that rev… read more

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18. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

Cover of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke

19. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

20. The Silver Warriors (Erekosë, #2)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second novel in the History of John Daker, The Eternal Champion. Phoenix in Obsidianaka The Sil… read more

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21. A Voyage to Arcturus

By: John Clute , David Lindsay , Loren Eiseley

3.08

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturushas inspired, enchanted, and uns… read more

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22. Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.90

Format: None pages,

Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped… read more

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23. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1

By: Ryoko Kui

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a… read more

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24. The End of the Story

By: Clark Ashton Smith , Scott Connors , Ron Hilger

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not onl… read more

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Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

25. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Cover of Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories) by Jon Peterson

26. Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories)

By: Jon Peterson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running le… read more

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  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • dungeons and dragons
Cover of Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup

27. Just Stab Me Now

By: Jill Bearup

4.35

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

A desperate mother. A dubious escort. And a deranged author who won’t leave them alone. Caroline… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"But if we don’t have peace, we shall have you."

-Jill Bearup, Just Stab Me Now

"I had such a beautiful evening planned. Candlelight, dancing, maybe a few flirtatious threats. And what do I get? Grand Theft Equine."

-Jill Bearup, Just Stab Me Now

Cover of So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems by Justin  Alexander

28. So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems

By: Justin Alexander

4.45

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

USA Today Bestselling Book ENNIE Award-nominated More people than ever are discovering Dungeons… read more

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  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • dungeons and dragons
Cover of Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons by Peter Bebergal

29. Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

By: Peter Bebergal

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Drawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dunge… read more

Similar categories in Peter Bebergal's Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons book and Peter Bebergal's Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

  • dungeons and dragons
  • literature
  • sword and sorcery
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • fantasy
Cover of The Manual of Design Fiction by Julian Bleecker

30. The Manual of Design Fiction

By: Julian Bleecker

4.58

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on design fiction from the originators of the practice, providing a compelling … read more

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Cover of 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed

31. 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon

By: Aaron A. Reed

4.66

Format: 620 pages, ebook

50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon is an extensively researched book chronic… read more

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  • gaming

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William Gibson

3.89

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4.43

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4.28

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4.24

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4.26

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