Recommended Reading

These are books, stories, webcomics, and authors which I recommend to everyone I know.  The works listed here represent more than just the urban fantasy genre and are listed in no particular order.

• “Pet Milk” – Stuart Dybek
• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
• Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
• The Dresden Files – Jim Butcher
• Anything at all by Terry Pratchett
• Anything at all by Jasper Fforde
• Anything at all by Neil Gaiman
• “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Whisperer in Darkness,” “In the Vault,” “The Shadow out of Time,” and “The Rats in the Walls,” among others – H. P. Lovecraft
• Schlock Mercenary – Howard Tayler
• The City & The City and Perdido Street Station – China Mieville
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• The Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase et al – Joan Aiken
• The Gormenghast trilogy – Mervyn Peake
• Girl Genius – Phil and Kaja Foglio
• The Aeneid – Virgil
• To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis

This list will expand, for I am always reading something, and it is more than likely that I have forgotten something important.