Fantastic Writers and Famous Epics I Must Read

Below is a list of authors of the fantastika genre (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, weird fiction, etc.) that I must and will read.

- Franz Kafka
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Italo Calvino
- Gabriel García Marquéz
- Steven Millhauser
- Primo Levi
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Haruki Murakami
- Tonke Dragt
- Rudyard Kipling
- H.G. Wells
- Clark Ashton Smith
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Robert E. Howard
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Mary Shelley
- Frank Herbert
- Neil Gaiman
- Patrick Rothfuss
- George R.R. Martin
- Mary Stewart
- Isaac Asimov
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Arthur C. Clark
- Philip K. Dick
- Ray Bradbury
- Jules Verne
- Octavia E. Butler
- Orson Scott Card
- China Miéville
- Michael Moorcock
- Anne McCaffery
- James Tiptree Jr. (penname), Alice Sheldon (real name)
- Stephen King
- Margaret Atwood
- Kurt Vonnegut
- George Orwell
- Margaret Atwood
- Aldous Huxley
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- John Wyndham
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Pierce brown
- Anthony Burgess
- Suzanne Collins
- William Gibson
- Madeline L'Engle
- Lois Lowry
- Robert Zelazny
- T.H. White
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Cixin Liu
- Chan Koochung
- Xia Jia
- Tang Fei
- Chen Quifan
- Strugatsky Brothers
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Vladimir Sorokin
- Aleksy Tolstoy
- Alexander Bogdanov
- Alexander Belyaev
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya
- Vladimir Odoyevsky
- Vladimir Obruchev
- Vladimir Voinovich
- Tatyana Tolstaya

I also have a list of famous epics that I should read:

- Mahabharata
- The Iliad (read)
- The Odyssey (read)
- The Aeneid (have)
- Beowulf (read)
- The Arabian Nights
- Le Morte D'Arthur
- The Epic of Gilgamesh (read)
- Nibelungenlied
- The Fairy Queen
- The Song of Roland (have)
- Ramayana
- The Knight in the Panther's Skin (have)
- The Icelandic Sagas (have, sort of...)
- The Elder Edda
- The Prose Edda
- The Kalevala (have)
- Lačplēsis; Bearslayer (have)
- The Song of Hiawatha (technically have)
- The Divine Comedy (technically have)
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign
- Paradise Lost
- The Mabinogion (have)
- The Irish Cycles
- The Grimm Fairy Tales
- Kalevipoeg
- Russian Fairy Epics
- Works and Days
- Theogony
- Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth
- The Five Classical Chinese Novels

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