artsword's appendix

 At the outset, let us tip our hat to those who have gone before, those who have particularly captured our imagination and ignited a fire in our chest for adventure.

With respect to Gary Gygax and the long tradition of acknowledging one's influences, here is artsword's Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Just Good Books appendix N:

Bradbury, Ray- Something Wicked This Way Comes
Card, Orson Scott- The Ender Quartet (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind)
Clarke, Susanna- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Crouch, Blake- Dark Matter, Recursion, Upgrade
Dahl, Roald- Short Stories
Dick, Philip K.- Short Stories
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor- Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Fforde, Jasper- Thursday Next Series (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, et al), Shades of Grey
Haig, Matt- The Midnight Library
Herbert, Frank- Dune
Homer- The Iliad, The Odyssey
Howey, Hugh- Silo Series (Wool, Shift, Dust)
Ishiguro, Kazuo- The Buried Giant
Joyce, James- Dubliners
King, Stephen- Fairy Tale
Lewis, C.S.- The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength), The Magician's Nephew
Liu, Cixin- The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End
Niffenegger, Audrey- The Time Traveler's Wife
Novik, Naomi- The Scholomance Trilogy (A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, The Golden Enclaves)
Peake, Mervyn- Ghormenghast Trilogy (Titus Groan, Ghormenghast, Titus Alone)
Peterson, Andrew- The Wingfeather Saga (On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, North! Or Be Eaten, The Monster in the Hollows, The Warden and the Wolf King)
Pratchett, Terry- Tiffany Aching Series (The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Shepherd's Crown)
Ruff, Matt- Lovecraft Country
Russell, Mary Doria- The Sparrow
Salvatore, R.A.- The Dark Elf Triology (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn)
Sanderson, Brandon- Mistborn, Tress of the Emerald Sea
Scalzi, John- Lock In
Setterfield, Dianne- The Thirteenth Tale
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft- Frankenstein
Stephenson, Neal- The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Tolkien, J.R.R.- The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Silmarillion
Vinge, Vernor- A Fire Upon the Deep
Willis, Connie- Doomsday Book, Short Stories

Thoughts? Anything you can't believe I've missed that I must read now?