Starvix Draxon's Recommended Book List

This is now a personal cannon that is incomplete.  It contains works that I feel should be treated as canon.  This of course is my personal canon.  I will not put anything on here up that I haven't read.  Anything on this list is has either been read, in progress of reading, or will have read within the month, (ie the werewolf stories).  I would include other works such as Academic readings, but again, much of that is incomplete and not ready to be posted. 


Egypt technically should not be up there merely because I haven't completed much of Egypt's History, Mythology, and Literature.  Again, Egypt is also in progress, but my purpose for putting that up is to emphasize how important I consider these works.  The Iliad is not up there yet because I am nowhere near close to finishing it, and that also goes for Greek Mythology. 


All of these books and more will be read in good time.  The idea is this will show people what I have read and possibly what may have influenced me.  This list shall continue therefore, to grow and grow and expand into a full fledged cannon as time goes on.  I hope those who read it will take these suggestions and read these authors.  I value every work on here as a book that I hold dear to my heart, (Except Tolkien).  I hope this will encourage literacy among all people.  Enjoy reading. 

 

My Personal Canon

Egypt (In progress)

Medieval Germanic Literature

Beowulf

Hrafnkel's Saga

Medieval Celtic Literature

The Mabinogion (In Progress)

Arthurian Literature and Other Medieval French Literature

The Lancelot Grail Reader

Roman de Silence

Lays of Marie de France

"Bisclavret"

Other Medieval Werewolf Tales

"Melion"

"Arthur and Gorlagon"

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Early Modern Period

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet (In Progress)

The Tempest (In Progress)

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus

The Romantic Movement Literature

William Blake

Songs of Innocence and Experience

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Lord Byron

"Darkness"

John Keats

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

"Lamia"

Ideas on the Imagination

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Victorian Literature

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

A Christmas Carol

20th Century Fantastical Literature and 21st Century Fantastical Literature

Lord Dunsany

In the Land of Time and Other Tales by Lord Dunsany (Col.)

Five Plays (Col.)

The King of Elfland's Daughter

George Orwell

Animal Farm

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit (No Influence)

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Tombs of Atuan

The Lathe of Heaven

The Farthest Shore

The Dispossessed (In Progress)

The Word for World is Forest

The Wind's Twelve Quarter's

Tehanu

Tales From Earthsea

The Other Wind

George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones (In Progress)

Neil Gaiman

Sandman (In Progress)

American Gods

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Fragile Things (In Progress)

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson Series

Kane Chronicles

Heroes of Olympus Series (Incomplete)

Non Fantastical

Don Dellilo

White Noise

Paul Auster

New York Trilogy

Chuck Palaniuk

Fight Club

Lance Olsen

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Allie Brosh

Hyperbole and a Half (Book and Blog)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower