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Pringle's 100 Best

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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984 is a nonfiction book by David Pringle, published by Xanadu in 1985. [ref]Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984, David Pringle. (UK edition) Xanadu Publications, 1985 ISBN 0-947761-11-X; (US edition) Carroll & Graf, 1987 ISBN 0-88184-346-6 ISBN 0-88184-259-1[/ref] The foreword is by Michael Moorcock.

Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1946-1987, David Pringle. (UK) Grafton Books, 1988 ISBN 0-246-13214-0 ; (US) Peter Bedrick Books, 1989 ISBN 0-872-26328-2 —US title "the Hundred Best"

Xanadu's 100 Best

2015-02-23 Xanadu Publications David Pringle

• Science Fiction, above
• Crime and Mystery (1987), Keating
• Horror (1988), anthology, eds. Jones and Newman
• Fantasy (1988), James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock

Fantasy

1988, Pringle, Grafton, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels 1988, Xanadu, Cawthorn & Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books

two volumes integrated

i = Irish, broadly covers Anglo-Irish before Northern Ireland (k=UK)

Cawthorn & Moorcock (flushleft) begin with Gulliver's Travels (1726). Chapters/selections 1–4 date from the 18th century, 5–20 from the 19th, and 21–63 from the 20th century prior to Titus Groan.

i 1 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
k 2 Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1765)
k 3 William Thomas Beckford, Vathek (1786)
k 4 Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk (1796)
k 5 h Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
i 6 Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
  7 Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
k 8 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
k 9 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
 10 Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
i11 Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864)
k12 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1865 1871)
k13 Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)
k14 Henry Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (1886)
k15 Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
k16 Richard Garnett (writer), The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales (1888)
k17 William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891)
i18 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
i19 Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
 20 Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)
k21 G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
k22 William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908)
k23 Marjorie Bowen, Black Magic: A Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909)
k24 Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story (1911)
 25 h Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1911)
 26 h Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
k27 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel) (1912)
k28 William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land (1912)
 29 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (novel) (1915)
 30 Francis Stevens, The Citadel of Fear (1918)
k31 David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
k32 E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ourobouros (1922)
k33 David Lindsay, The Haunted Woman (1922)
k34 David Garnett, Lady into Fox and A Man in the Zoo (1922 1924)
k35 Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
 36 h Abraham Merritt, The Ship of Ishtar (1926)
z37 Franz Kafka, The Trial and The Castle (novel) (1925 1926)
k38 John Buchan, Witch Wood (1927)
k39 Charles Williams (British writer), War in Heaven (novel) (1930)
 40 Thorne Smith, Turnabout (Smith novel) (1931)
 41 Thorne Smith, The Night Life of the Gods (1931)
 42 h Abraham Merritt, Dwellers in the Mirage (1932)
 43 Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique/continent (1932 1951) Zothique (collection) (1971)
 44 Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris (1933)
k45 James Hilton (novelist), Lost Horizon (novel) (1933)
 46 h C. L. Moore, Northwest Smith/character (1933 1940)
 47 h C. L. Moore, Jirel of Joiry/character (1934 1939)
 48 Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935)
i49 Joseph O'Neill (1886–1953), Land Under England/redirects (1935)
 51 H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
 52 William Milligan Sloane III, To Walk the Night (1937)
 53 Seabury Quinn, Roads (novel) (1938)
 55 L. Ron Hubbard, Slaves of Sleep (1939)
k56 Frank S. Stuart, Caravan for China (1939) Kirkus: Doubleday Doran, Jan 1941; Frank Stanley 1904– 

 57 L. Ron Hubbard, Fear (Hubbard novella) (1940)
 59 H. P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941)
 60 L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, Land of Unreason (1941)

 63 Henry Kuttner, The Dark World and The Valley of the Flame (1946)
k64.1 Mervyn Peake Titus Groan, (1946) \1946/50/59
k65 Maurice Richardson, The Exploits of Engelbrecht (1946)
k 66 T. H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
 67 h Fritz Leiber, Adept's Gambit (1947) -- in coll. Night's Black Agents
 62.2 h A. E. van Vogt, The Book of Ptath (1947) \1943
 68.3 Fletcher Pratt, The Well of the Unicorn (1948)
 58.4 h Jack Williamson, Darker Than You Think (1948) \1940
k .5 Seven Days in New Crete AKA Watch the North Wind Rise, Robert Graves (1949)
  .6 Silverlock, John Myers Myers (1949)
 [92].7 L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, The Castle of Iron (1950) \Complete, 1975
 50.8 Robert E. Howard, Conan the Conqueror (1950) \1935/36
k .9 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis (1950)
k[64].10 Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (novel) (1950)
 69 h Fritz Leiber, You're All Alone (1950) -- rev. The Sinful Ones
 70.11 h Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (1950)
 71 John Dickson Carr, The Devil in Velvet (1951)
 72 de Camp, The Tritonian Ring (1951)
k .12 The Sound of His Horn, Sarban (author) (1952)
 74 h Leigh Brackett, The Sword of Rhiannon (1953)
 61.13 h Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife (1953) \1943
 [69].14 h Fritz Leiber, The Sinful Ones (1953) revised\1950
 75.15 h Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword (1954)
k76.16 h J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954–55)
k-77 Henry Treece, The Golden Strangers (1956)
k78 Henry Treece, The Great Captains (1956)
k .17 Pincher Martin, William Golding (1956)
  .18 h Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man (1956)
  .19 h Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (1957)
k54.20 T. H. White, The Once and Future King (1958) \five, 1939 to 1977
  .21 h Robert A. Heinlein, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959)
 79.22 Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
k[64].23 Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (1959)
  .24 A Fine and Private Place, Peter S. Beagle (1960)
 73.25 h Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961)
  .26 The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything, John D. MacDonald (1962)
  .27 h Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (1963)
  .28 h Andre Norton, Witch World (novel) (1963)
o-81 Jane Gaskell, The Serpent, Atlan, The City, Some Summer Lands (1963 65 66 77)
o82 J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (1964)
o .29 The Magus (novel), John Fowles (1965)
o80.30 h Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer (novel) (1965)
  .31 The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (1966)
  .32 Day of the Minotaur, Thomas Burnett Swann (1966)
  .33 h Jack Vance, The Eyes of the Overworld (1966)
o .34 The Owl Service, Alan Garner (1967)
 #84.35 Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby (1967)
i .36 The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien (1967)
o .37 Gog (novel), Andrew Sinclair (1967)
  .38 The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle (1968)
 85.39 h Ursula K. Le Guin,  A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
  .40 h Fritz Leiber, The Swords of Lankhmar (1968)
 83.41 h James Blish, Black Easter and The Day After Judgment (1968, 1971)
o-87 Gordon Honeycombe, Neither the Sea nor the Sand (1969)
o-88 Colin Wilson, The Philosopher's Stone (1969)
o86.42 Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (1969)
  .43 The Phoenix and the Mirror, Avram Davidson (1969)
  .44 A Feast Unknown, Philip José Farmer (1969)
  .45 Fourth Mansions, R. A. Lafferty (1969)
o#.46 Red Moon and Black Mountain, Joy Chant (1970)
  .47 Time and Again (novel), Jack Finney (1970)
o-89 M. John Harrison, The Pastel City (1971)
  .48 Grendel (novel), John Gardner (novelist) (1971)
B .49 Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing (1971)
 .50 h Roger Zelazny, Jack of Shadows (1971)
o .51 Watership Down, Richard Adams (1972)
B90.52 Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
o91 Alan Garner, Red Shift (1973)
B .53 Sweet Dreams (novel), Michael Frayn (1973)
  .54 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia A. McKillip (1974)
  .55 Salem's Lot, Stephen King (1975)
o .56 The Great Victorian Collection, Brian Moore (novelist) (1975)
B .57 Grimus, Salman Rushdie (1975)
  .58 h Gene Wolfe, Peace (novel) (1975)
 92 de Camp and Pratt, The Compleat Enchanter (1975)
k93 Kingsley Amis, The Alteration (1976)
B .59 h Brian Aldiss, The Malacia Tapestry (1976)
  .60 h Gordon R. Dickson, The Dragon and the George (1976)
o .61 Hotel de Dream, Emma Tennant (1976)
B .62 The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter (1977)
  .63 Lord Foul's Bane, Stephen R. Donaldson (1977)
  .64 The Shining (novel), Stephen King (1977)
  .65 Fata Morgana (Kotzwinkle novel), William Kotzwinkle (1977)
 94.66 h Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
o .67 h Michael Moorcock, Gloriana (novel) (1978)
o .68 The Unlimited Dream Company, J. G. Ballard (1979)
  .69 Sorcerer's Son, Phyllis Eisenstein (1979)
 95 Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark (1979)
o-96 Geoffrey Household, The Sending (1980)
  .70 The Land of Laughs, Jonathan Carroll (1980)
  .71 The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas (1980)
o .72 A Storm of Wings, M. John Harrison (1980)
  .73 White Light (novel), Rudy Rucker (1980)
  .74 Ariosto (novel), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1980)
  .75 Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs (1981)
 + .76 Little, Big, John Crowley (1981)
B .77 Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray (1981)
o .78 h Michael Moorcock, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981)
  .79 Nifft the Lean, Michael Shea (author) (1982)
B97 Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic (1983)
  .80 Winter's Tale (novel), Mark Helprin (1983)
  .81 Soul Eater (Jeter novel), K. W. Jeter (1983)
  .82 Tea with the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy (1983)
o .83 Cold Heaven (novel), Brian Moore (1983)
  .84 The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers (1983))
  .85 Who Made Stevie Crye?, Michael Bishop (author) (1984)
  .86 The Digging Leviathan, James P. Blaylock (1984)
B .87 Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter (1984)
 98.88 Thomas M. Disch, The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (1984)
o .89 Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock (1984)
B .90 The Glamour (novel), Christopher Priest (novelist) (1984)
  .91 The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike (1984)
B#99.92 Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (novel) (1985)
  .93 The Dream Years, Lisa Goldstein (1985)
c#.94 The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay (1985–87)
B .95 The Bridge (novel), Iain Banks (1986)
o+.96 The Hungry Moon, Ramsey Campbell (1986)
  .97 Replay (Grimwood novel), Ken Grimwood (1986)
o-.98 The Unconquered Country, Geoff Ryman (1986)
o+100 Tom Holt, Expecting Someone Taller (1987)
o .99 The Day of Creation, J. G. Ballard (1987)
  .100 The Solitudes (novel), Aegypt #1, John Crowley (1987)

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Science Fiction

also covered in Cawthorn & Moorcock, Fantasy ?

• J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (1964) -- #82 above
• Kingsley Amis, The Alteration (1976) -- #93 above

   1. k Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (1949)
   2. # Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (1949)
   3. h Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (1950)
   4. h Robert A. Heinlein, The Puppet Masters (1951)
   5.o The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham (1951)
   6. # Limbo, Bernard Wolfe (1952)
   7. h Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (1953)
   8. h Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
   9.o h Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (1953)
   10 # The Paradox Men, Charles L. Harness (1953)
   11 # Bring the Jubilee, Ward Moore (1953)
   12 h Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (1953)
   12x C. M. Kornbluth
   13 g Ring Around the Sun, Clifford D. Simak (1953)
   14 h Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (1953)
   15 h Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (1954)
   16 A Mirror for Observers, Edgar Pangborn (1954)
   17 h Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity (1955)
   18 h Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow (1955)
   19k William Golding, The Inheritors (1955)
   20 hThe Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (1956)
   21o The Death of Grass, John Christopher (1956)
   22o h Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (1956)
   23 h Heinlein, The Door into Summer(1957)
   24o The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham (1957)
   25B h Brian Aldiss, Non-Stop (1958)
   26 h James Blish, A Case of Conscience (1958)
   27 h Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)
   28 h Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint (1959)
   29 # Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank (1959)
   30 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
   31 The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1959)
   32 Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys (1960)
   33 h Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X (1960)
   34B h Brian Aldiss, Hothouse (1962)
   35o J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962)
   36o# A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
   37 h Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962)
   38 # Journey Beyond Tomorrow, Robert Sheckley (1962)
   39 g Way Station, Clifford D. Simak (1963)
   40 Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1963)
   41B h Brian Aldiss, Greybeard (1964)
   42o Nova Express, William S. Burroughs (1964)
   43 h Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip (1964)
   44 h Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
   45 h Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer (1965)
   46 Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith (1965)
   47 h Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney (1965)
   48 hFrank Herbert, Dune (1965)
   49o J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (1966)
   50 h Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (1966)
   51 Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)
   52 h Roger Zelazny, The Dream Master (1966)
   53o# Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner (1968)
   54 h Samuel R. Delany, Nova (1968)
   55 h Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
   56 Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration (1968)
   57o h Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme (1968)
   58o# Pavane, Keith Roberts (1968)
   59B Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains (1969)
   60 h Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
   61o# The Palace of Eternity, Bob Shaw (1969)
   62 # Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad (1969)
   63 h Poul Anderson, Tau Zero (1970)
   64 h Robert Silverberg, Downward to the Earth (1970)
   65 h Wilson Tucker, The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970)
   66 Thomas M. Disch, 334 (1972)
   67 h Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
   68o h Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time (1972)
   69o J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973)
   70 Looking Backward, from the Year 2000, Mack Reynolds (1973)
   71o# The Embedding, Ian Watson (1973)
   72 Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas (1974)
   73o# M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device (1974)
   74 h Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
   75B Christopher Priest, Inverted World (1974)
   76o J. G. Ballard, High Rise (1975)
   77 Galaxies, Barry N. Malzberg (1975)
   78 h Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)
   79o# Orbitsville, Bob Shaw (1975)
   80o Kingsley Amis, The Alteration (1976)
   81 # Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy (1976)
   82 h Frederik Pohl, Man Plus (1976)
   83 Michaelmas, Algis Budrys (1977)
   84 # The Ophiuchi Hotline, John Varley (1977)
   85o# Miracle Visitors, Ian Watson (1978)
   86# John Crowley, Engine Summer (1979)
   87 Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song (1979)
   88o# The Walking Shadow, Brian Stableford (1979)
   89 h Kate Wilhelm, Juniper Time (1979)
   90 Timescape, Gregory Benford (1980)
   91a# The Dreaming Dragons, Damien Broderick (1980)
   92 h Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (1980)
   93. Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban (1980)
   94 # The Complete Roderick, John Sladek (1980)
   95 h Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer (1980)
   96 The Unreasoning Mask, Philip José Farmer (1981)
   97 Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1981)
   97x Jerry Pournelle
   98 Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time (1982)
   99 The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, John Calvin Batchelor (1983)
  100 h William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

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