#1: A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire) (George R.R. Martin)
#2:  The Blade Itself (First Law) (Joe Abercrombie)
#3:  Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) (Steven Erikson)
#4:  The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles) (Patrick Rothfuss)
#5:  Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
#6:  The Black Company
#7:  Heroes Die (Mathew Stover) -NEW-
#8:  The Way of Kings (Brandon Sanderson)
#9:  The Farseer (Robin Hobb)
#10: A Shadow in Summer (Daniel Abraham)
#11: The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
#12:  Gormenghast (Mervyne Peake)
#13:  Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time) (Robert Jordan)
#14: The Prince of Thorns (Mark Lawrence) -NEW-
#15:  Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Trilogy) (C.S. Friedman)
#16:  The Troupe (Robert Jackson Bennett) -NEW-
#17:  The Engineer Trilogy (K.J. Parker) -NEW-
#18:  The Darkness That Comes Before (R. Scott Bakker)
#19:  Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
#20:  Lord Foul's Bane (First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) (Stephen Donaldson)
#21:  American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
#22:  The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud) -NEW-
#23:  The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn) (Tad Williams)
#24:  Daughter of the Empire (Raymond Feist) -NEW-
#25:  The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher)

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