Fifty Shades of Black and White

Never being one to miss a chance to jump on a bandwagon, I was inspired by Joe Hill's top fifty favorite books to do the same here. Like Joe's, these are in no order of preference, but unlike his, I couldn't be bothered to list the authors alphabetically- I pretty much put them down as they came to me.

I'm sure more will come to me as I think of them

1. Foucault's Pendulum • Umberto Eco
2. The Name of the Rose • Umberto Eco
3. Fragile Things • Neil Gaiman
4. The Lord of the Rings • J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Silmarillion • J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Sword of Rhiannon • Leigh Brackett
7. Irish Folk and Fairy Tales • Michael Scott
8. Duma Key • Stephen King
9. IT • Stephen King
10. The Lankhmar Stories • Fritz Lieber
11. Something Wicked this way comes • Ray Bradbury
12. Caves of Steel • Issac Azimov
13. I, Robot • Issac Azimov
14. Chronicles of Amber • Roger Zelazny
15. The Tain • Thomas Kinsella (trans.)
16. The Complete Fiction • H.P. Lovecraft
17. American Gods • Neil Gaiman
18. The Chronicles of Conan • Robert E. Howard
19. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen • Alan Garner
20. Elric of Melnibone • Michael Moorcock
21. Le Morte d'Arthur • Thomas Malory
22. The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas
23. The White Goddess • Robert Graves
24. New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos • Ramsey Campbell (ed.)
25. Day of the Triffids • John Wyndham
26. Earth Abides • George R. Stewart
27. A Game of Thrones • George R. R. Martin
28. The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith • Clark Ashton Smith
29. Small Gods • Terry Pratchett
30. Mort • Terry Pratchett
31. Dracula • Bram Stoker
32. The Best of Myles • Flann O'Brien
33. Sophie's World • Jostein Gaarder
34. The Illuminatus! Trilogy • Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
35. Everyday life of the Pagan Celts • Anne Ross
36. The Complete Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle
37. Perdido Street Station • China Mieville
38. The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
39. Viriconium • M. John Harrison
40. Stainless Steel Rat • Harry Harrison
41. The Earthsea Series • Ursula Le Guin
42. Complete Works • W.B. Yeats
43. Death of a Naturalist • Seamus Heaney
44. 20,000 Leagues under the sea • Jules Verne
45. The War of the Worlds • H.G. Welles
46. The Great God Pan • Arthur Machen
47. Time and The Gods • Lord Dunsany
48. 1984 • George Orwell
49. Johnathan Strange and Mister Norrell • Susanna Clarke
50. Gods and Fighting Men • Lady Gregory