Top 100 Fantasy Stand-Alones Novels Of All Time - Volume 1 Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction. In popular culture, the fantasy genre is predominantly of the medievalist form, especially since the worldwide success of The Lord of the Rings and related books by J. R. R. Tolkien. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, from ancient myths and legends to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today. Fantasy is a vibrant area of academic study in a number of disciplines (English, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, medieval studies). Work in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of Tzvetan Todorov, which emphasizes the fantastic as a liminal space, to work on the connections (political, historical, literary) between medievalism and popular culture. CONTENT: 1. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (read by Rob Inglis) 2. George Orwell - Animal Farm (read by Ralph Cosham) 3. Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones (read by Alice Sebold) 4. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (read by William Hope, Laurel Lefkow) 5. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (read by Jeremy Irons) 6. Yann Martel - Life Of Pi (read by Jeff Woodman, Alexander Marshall) 7. Homer - The Odyssey (read by Anton Lesser) 8. William Goldman - The Princess Bride (read by Bruce Nelson) 9. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years Of Solitude (read by John Lee) 10. Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince (read by Humphrey Bower) 11. Bram Stoker - Dracula (read by David Thorpe, Clare Corbett, David Horovitch, Jamie Parker, Joseph Kloska, Alison Pettitt, John Foley) 12. Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray (read by Simon Vance) 13. Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet In Heaven (read by Mitch Albom) 14. Roald Dahl - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (read by Roald Dahl) 15. Stephen King - The Stand (read by Grover Gardner) 16. Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons - Watchmen SEARCHING ... 17. Neil Gaiman - American Gods (read by George Guidall) 18. William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream (read by Sarah Woodward, Michael Maloney, Warren Mitchell) 19. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (read by Simon Vance) 20. Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted (read by Eden Riegel) 21. Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (read by Nicholas Techosky) 22. Dr Seuss - The Cat In The Hat (read by Adrian Edmondson) 23. Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus (read by Jim Dale) 24. Richard Adams - Watership Down (read by Ralph Cosham) 25. Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman - Good Omens (read by Jack Carroll) 26. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (read by Michael York) 27. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) 28. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (read by Neil Gaiman) 29. Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian (read by Justine Eyre, Paul Michael) 30. Max Brooks - World War Z (read by Jim Zeiger) 31. L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (read by Anne Hathaway) 32. C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (read by John Cleese) 33. A.A. Milne - Winnie The Pooh (read by Maurice Evans) 34. Unknown Author - Beowulf (read by George Guidall) 35. Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth (read by Norman Dietz) 36. Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay (read by Jim Zeiger) 37. Patrick Suskind - Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (read by Sean Barret) 38. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (read by Hugh Laurie) 39. J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan (read by Tim Curry) 40. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion (read by Martin Shaw) 41. Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (read by Richard Bach) 42. Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Shore (read by Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur) 43. Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (read by Rupert Degas) 44. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell (read by Simon Prebble) 45. Christopher Moore - Lamb (read by Fisher Stevens) 46. Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World (read by Simon Vance) 47. The Brothers Grimm - Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (read by Anna Massey) 48. Franz Kafka - The Trial (read by George Guidall) 49. Frank Miller - Batman: The Dark Knight Returns SEARCHING ... 50. Kenneth Grahame - The Wind In The Willows (read by Simon Vance) Audio-DVD format: It can be used on DVD and DVD-Rom players, also on devices such as Playstation, Xbox or portable DVD players. 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