GENRES (book-length fiction by single authors)
Mainstream: 1) The Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor, 2) The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 3) The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 4) Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 5) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.
Science Fiction: 1) The Complete Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, 2) A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, 3) The Space Trilogy, C. S. Lewis, 4) Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay, 5) The Compass Rose, Ursula K. LeGuin.
Fantasy: 1) The Silmarillion, J, R. R. Tolkien, 2) The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula K. Leguin, 3) Lilith, George MacDonald, 4) Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake, 5) Duncton Wood, William Horwood.
Gothic: 1) All Hallow's Eve, Charles Williams, 2) We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 3) The Portent [aka The Lady in the Mansion], George MacDonald, 4) Tales of Suspense, Edgar Allan Poe, 5) Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Mystery: 1) The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco, 2) The Complete Father Brown, 3) The Complete Sherlock Holmes, A. Conan Doyle, 4) Tales of Mystery, Edgar Allan Poe, 5) The Complete Peter Wimsy Stories, Dorothy Sayers.
Westerns: 1) Heart of the West, O. Henry, 2) The Virginian, Owen Wister, 3) Aces and Eights, Jolly R. Blackburn, 4) The Friendly Persuasion, Jessamyn West, 5) Little House Series, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
QUALITIES (book-length fiction by single authors)
Holiest: 1) At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald, 2) Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis, 3) The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 4) The Greater Trumps, Charles Williams, 5) Sylvie and Bruno, Lewis Carroll.
Most Beautiful: 1) Taliesin, Stephen R. Lawhead, 2) The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien, 3) The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula K. LeGuin, 4) A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, 5) Duncton Wod, Willian Horwood.
Most Mind-blowing: 1) Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 2) Last and First Men, Olaf Stapleton, 3) The Pendulum, Umberto Eco, 4) Erewhon, Samuel Butler, 5) Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott.
Most Mind-stretching: 1) The Complete Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, 2) Alice in Wonderland, 3) The Pendulum, Umberto Eco, 4) The Complete Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton, 5) The Complete Sherlock Holmes.
Most Entertaining: 1) The Rectory Umbrella, Lewis Carroll, 2) Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain, 3) Mrs. Pickerel on the Moon, ?, 4) The Purloined Paperweight, 5) Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan.
Most Moving: 1) The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 2) The Mill on the Floss, 3) A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, 4) Little Dorritt, Charles Dickens, 5) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.
Best Prose Style: 1) The Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor, 2) The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula K. LeGuin, 3) The Complete Short Stoeies, Ernest Hemingway, 4) A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, 5) Duncton Wood, William Horwood.
Strangest: 1) Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan, 2) Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 3) Amerika, Franz Kafka, 4) Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne, 5) Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake.
ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
Arthurian Romances (Medieval): Peredur, anonymous, 2) Parzival, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, 3) Perceval, Chrétien de Troyes, 4) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 5) Le Morte d'Arthur, Malory.
Arthurian Fiction: 1) Taliesin, Stephen Lawhead, 2) The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart, 3) The Dragon and the Unicorn, A. A. Attanaso, 4) The Mabinogion, anonymous, tr. Lady Charlotte E. Guest, 5) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Arthurian Poetry: 1) Taliesin Through Logres, Charles Williams, 2) The Book of the Holy Grail, A. E. Waite, 3) Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, anonymous, tr. J. R. R. Tolkien, 4) The Idylls of the King, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 5) Quest of the Sangraal, Robert Stephen Hawker.
Arthurian Non-Fiction: 1) The Discovery of King Arthur, Geoffrey Ashe, 2) The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend,John Cos and Simon Young, 3) The Arthurian Encyclopedia, Norris J. Lacy, 4) Arthurian Legend in the Middle Ages, Robert Sherman Loomis, 5) Arthurian Companion, Phyllis Ann Karr.
Best Science Fiction Antholgies: 1) Fantasia Mathematica, Clifton Fadiman, 2) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Robert Silverberg, 3) The World Treasury of Science Fiction, David G. Hartwell, 4) Sacred Visions, Andrew Greeley and Michael Cassutt, 5) Timeless Stories of Today and Tomorrow, Ray Bradbury.
Best Fantasy Anthologies: 1) Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder, David G. Hartwell, 2) Modern Classics of Fantasy, Gardner Dozois, 3) The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories, 4) Fairy Tales, The Brothers Grimm, 5) The Mabinogion, anonymous.
Poets: 1) The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman, 2) The Complete Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 3) Collected Poems of James Joyce, 4) The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, 5) Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas.
More Poets: 6) If I Had Wheels or Love: Collected Poems of Vassar Miller, 7) The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore, 8) The Works of George Herbert, 9) The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare, 10) The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne 1636-1674.
Kookiest Books: 1) The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, Michael Baigent, 2) When Worlds Collide, Immanuel Velikovsky, 3) First Man, Then Adam, Irwin Ginsburgh, 4) The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English [aka English as She is Spoke], Pedro Carolino, 5) Chariots of the Gods, Erich Von Daniken.
Mythozoology: 1) The Book of Fabulous Beasts, Joseph Nigg, 2) Giants, Monsters and Dragons, Carol Rose, 3) Dragonology, Dr. Ernest Drake, 4) The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges, 5) The Lore of Unicorns, Odell Shepherd
Hymnals: 1) The Hymnal 1940 [Episcopal], 2) The Hymnal 1982 [Episcopal], 3) Hymns of the Living Faith [Free Methodist, 1951], 4) The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration [Non-denominational, 1986], 5) The Lutheran Hymnal [1941]
Bible Translations: 1) Young's Literal Translation, 2) Green's Literal Translation, 3) The New English Translation of the Septuagint [OT only], 4) The Septuagint with the Apocrapha, tr. Sir E. L. Breton [OT only], 5) The New Revised Standard Version.
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