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For the first phase of this project we need to identify 500 adult fiction titles which together are indicative of a healthy adult fiction collection. This is not a shopping list of titles, but an indicative list. There will be a very broad range of titles in this list from the very popular to the very literacy. Find out more about the project here.

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• Brent Weeks - The way of the shadows; The Black Prism (Lightbringer trilogy)
• J R R Tolkein - The fellowship of the ring, The Two Towers,The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings), The Hobbit
• David Eddings - Pawn of prophecy (Belgariad series); The Redemption of Althalus
• Stephen Donaldson - Lord Foul’s bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever - series)
• Jim Butcher (title suggestions needed)
• Gay Gavrielle Kay (title suggestions needed)
• Terry Brooks (title suggestions needed) The Word and the Void; Shannara series
• Terry Pratchett Soul music Colour of magic (any/all Disc World books)
• Ramond Feist - The magician (Riftwar saga); Faerie Tale
• PC Cast (title suggestions needed)
• Charles De Lint (title suggestions needed)
• Kevin J Anderson - Metal swarm
• George R R Martin - Song of Fire and Ice sequence
• Robin Hobb (title suggestions needed) The liveship trilogy, the Assasin trilogy
• Sara Douglas (title suggestions needed)
• Robyn McKinley (title suggestions needed)
• Patrica McKillop (title suggestions needed)
• Neil Gaiman - American gods
• Trudy Carnarvon (title suggestions needed) Black Magician's Trilogy, Age of Five Trilogy
• Audrey Niffenegger - The time traveller's wife
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• Jacqueline Carey, - Kushiel's Dart and others in Kushiel's Legacy series.
• Patrick Rothfuss - Name of the wind
• Patrick Rothfuss - Wise man's fear
• Jim Butcher - Changes
• David Gemmel - Legend
• Cecilia Dart-Thornton - The Ill-made mute, The Lady of Sorrows, The Battle of Evernight (Bitterbynde Trilogy) ; Crowthistle Chronicles;
• Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
• Anne Rice - Interview with a Vampire
• Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
• Umberto Eco - Foucaults pendulum
• Bram Stoker - Dracula (horror?)
• Alison Goodman - Eona
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  Kate Forsyth - Witches of Eileanan series
• Isobelle Carmody - Obernewtyn Chronicles
• Glenda Larke - Watergivers series, The Mirage makers series, Isles of glory series
• Deborah Harkness - A Discover of Witches
• Stephen King -The Dark Tower series
• Naomi Novik - Temeraire
• Trent Jamieson - Death Most Definite, Managing Death
• Ursula Le Guin - Earthsea sequence
• Gene Wolfe - The Knight
• Paul Park - Roumania sequence
• Isobelle Carmody - Obernewtyn Chronicles
  
• Glenda Larke - Watergivers series, The Mirage makers series, Isles of glory series
  
• Deborah Harkness - A Discover of Witches
• Stephen King -The Dark Tower series
• Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time series
• Terry Goodkind – The Wizards First Rule
• Phillip Pullman – His Dark Materials trilogy
• R A Salvatore – Dark Elf Trilogy
• Weis and Hickman – the Dragonlance Chronicles
• Marion Zimmer Bradley – the Mists of Avalon
• Piers Anthony – On a Pale Horse
• Steven Erikson – a Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
• NK Jamisin – The Inheritance Trilogy
• Brandan Sanderson The Stormlight Archive
• Joshua Delacy – The Wordstone chronicles
• Terry Prachett - Discworld series
• David Eddings - Belgariad series
• J.R. Martin - Game of thrones
• Lyn Flewelling - Stalking dawn
• Robin Hobb - Royal assasin
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