The Atlas of the Land …
Karen Wynn Fonstad
Lord Foul’s Bane; The
Illearth War; The Power That Preserves, The Wounded Land, The One Tree, White
Gold Wielder … Steven R Donaldson*
Daughter of Regals and other
tales … Stephen R. Donaldson
Gildenfire … Stephen R.
Donaldson
The Mirror of Her Dreams …
Stephen R. Donaldson
A Man Rides Through …
Stephen R. Donaldson
Fatal Revenant … Stephen R.
Donaldson
Against All Things Ending …
Stephen R. Donaldson
The Runes of the Earth …
Stephen R. Donaldson
[The Last Dark … Stephen R.
Donaldson]
The Bishop’s Heir; The
King’s Justice; The Quest for St. Camber; King Kelson’s Bride; Deryni Magic …
Katherine Kurtz
The Harrowing of Gwynedd;
King Javan’s Year; The Bastard Prince … Katherine Kurtz
The Chronicles of
Chrestomanci, Vols. I, II, and III; Mixed Magics; Eight Days of Luke; Archer’s
Goon, Enchanted Glass; Earwig and the Witch; Hexwood … Diana Wynne Jones
The Dalemark Quartet … Diana
Wynne Jones
A Wizard of Earthsea*; The
Tombs of Atuan*; The Farthest Shore*; Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings …
Ursula K. Leguin
The Translator … John
Crowley
Novelty: Four Stories … John
Crowley*
Four Freedoms … John Crowley
Beasts … John Crowley*
The Folk of the Air … Peter
S. Beagle
I See by My Outfit … Peter
S. Beagle
The Fires of Windameir … Neil
Hancock*
Riddle of Stars … Patricia
A. McKillip*
The Wicked Day … Mary
Stewart
Time Cat … Lloyd Alexander
Encyclopedia Cthulhiana …
Daniel Harms
Secrets of The Wee Free Men
and Discworld … Carrie Pyykkonen & Linda Washington
These are all books by good writers whom I admire, or about their creations, of which I do not feel I need to keep copies. Some, whose work I enjoyed, just lost my interest. Take Donaldson, for instance. While I enjoyed the first Thomas Covenant trilogy a good deal, and the second less so, the third batch seemed dedicated to unweaving the triumphs of the first books simply for the reason of continuing the series; it devalued the previous work for me. I lost interest and never even bought the final volume, The Last Dark. Kurtz seemed to me to lose some of her zest and became just like an endless D&D campaign; there is a whole other Deryni trilogy, The Childe Morgan Trilogy, that I never bothered to seek out. Some books are simply spare copies I can do without.
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