Fantasy Meme

Here’s another one of those “50 Books” memes that have been floating around. This one’s all Fantasy, baby. The rules are simple. Bold the titles you’ve read, put an * in front of the ones you liked and a – in front of the ones you didn’t. This meme has reminded me of a whole bunch of great fantasy books to give to Scott. He’s a little lost right now — he devoured the latest R.A. Salvatore book in one sitting.

1. * The Chronicles of Prydain – Alexander, Lloyd
2. Carrie’s War – Bawden, Nina
3. Death of a Ghost – Butler, Charles
4. – Ender’s Game – Card, Orson Scott
5. * Summerland – Chabon, Michael
6. * King of Shadows – Cooper, Susan
7. * The Dark is Rising sequence – Cooper, Susan
8. * Stonestruck – Cresswell, Helen
9. * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Dahl, Roald
10. * Matilda – Dahl, Roald
11. Ingo – Dunmore, Helen
12. * The Sea of Trolls – Farmer, Nancy
13. Madame Doubtfire – Fine, Anne
14. Corbenic – Fisher, Catherine
15. * Inkheart – Funke, Cornelia
16. * The Thief Lord – Funke, Cornelia
17. The Owl Service – Garner, Alan
18. Happy Kid! – Gauthier, Gail
19. Stormbreaker – Horowitz, Anthony
20. * Whale Rider – Ihimaera, Witi
21. – Finn Family Moomintroll – Jansson, Tove
22. * Fire and Hemlock – Jones, Diana Wynne
23. * The Phantom Tollbooth – Juster, Norton
24. * The Sheep Pig – King Smith, Dick
25. Stig of the Dump – King, Clive
26. * A Wizard of Earthsea – Le Guin, Ursula
27. – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Lewis, C S
28. * The House at Norham Gardens – Lively, Penelope
29. Goodnight Mister Tom – Magorian, Michelle
30. – The Changeover – Mahy, Margaret
31. * The Stones are Hatching – McCaughrean, Geraldine
32. * The White Darkness – McCaughrean, Geraldine
33. * Beauty – McKinley, Robin
34. * Sabriel – Nix, Garth
35. * The Borrowers – Norton, Mary
36. * Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – O’Brien, Robert
37. * Z for Zachariah – O’Brien, Robert
38. A Dog So Small – Pearce, Philippa
39. Life As We Knew It – Pfeffer, Susan Beth
40. * A Hat Full of Sky – Pratchett, Terry
41. * His Dark Materials sequence – Pullman, Philip
42. * How I Live Now – Rosoff, Meg
43. * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Rowling, J K
44. * Holes – Sachar, Louis
45. The Foreshadowing – Sedgwick, Marcus
46. Marianne Dreams – Storr, Catherine
47. When the Siren Wailed – Streatfield, Noel
48. * The Bartimaeus Trilogy – Stroud, Jonathan
49. * The Hobbit – Tolkien, J R R
50. * Charlotte’s Web – White, E B