This is ONE OF 2 responses to VC 21 Drury 9 ("The Library")...
Here's someone else's list; it's from "Fantasy - The 100 Best Books", by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock. The list is in chronological order.
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift (1726)
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole (1765)
Vathek
William Beckford (1786)
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796)
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley (1818)
Melmoth The Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin (1820)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe (1838)
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens (1843)
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte (1847)
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville (1851)
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
J. Sheridan LeFanu (1864)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through The Looking Glass (1871)
Lewis Carroll
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
She
H. Rider Haggard (1886)
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
The Twilight of the Gods
Richard Garnett (1888)
The Story of the Glittering Plain
William Morris (1891)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde (1891)
Dracula
Bram Stoker (1897)
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James (1898)
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton (1908)
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson (1908)
Black Magic
Marjorie Bowen (1909)
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm (1911)
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1911)
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1911)
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
The Night Land
William Hope Hodgson (1912)
Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)
The Citadel of Fear
Francis Stevens (1918)
A Voyage to Arcturus
David Lindsay (1920)
The Worm Ouroboros
E.R. Edison (1922)
The Haunted Woman
David Lindsay (1922)
Lady into Fox (1922) and A Man in the Zoo (1924)
David Garnett
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany (1924)
The Ship of Ishtar
Abraham Merritt (1926)
The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926)
Franz Kafka
Witch Wood
John Buchan (1927)
War in Heaven
Charles Williams (1930)
Turnabout
Thorne Smith (1931)
The Night Life of the Gods
Thorne Smith (1931)
Dwellers in the Mirage
Abraham Merritt (1932)
Zothique
Clark Ashton Smith (1932-51)
The Werewolf of Paris
Guy Endore (1933)
Lost Horizon
James Hilton (1933)
Northwest Smith
Catherine L. Moore (1933-40)
Jirel of Joiry
Catherine L. Moore (1934-9)
The Circus of Dr. Lao
Charles G. Finney (1935)
Land Under England
Joseph O'Neill (1935)
Conan The Conqueror
Robert E. Howard (1935/6)
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft (1936)
To Walk The Night
William Sloane (1937)
Roads
Seabury Quinn (1938)
The Once and Future King
T.H. White (1939-77)
Slaves Of Sleep
L. Ron Hubbard (1939)
Caravan For China
Frank R. Stuart (1939)
Fear
L. Ron Hubbard (1940)
Darker Than You Think
Jack Williamson (1940)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
H.P. Lovecraft (1941)
Land of Unreason
Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp (1941)
Conjure Wife
Fritz Leiber (1943)
The Book of Ptath
A.E. van Vogt (1943)
The Dark World and The Valley of The Flame
Henry Kuttner (1946)
Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959)
Mervyn Peake
The Exploits of Engelbrecht
Maurice Richardson (1946)
Mistress Masham's Repose
T.H. White (1946)
Adept's Gambit
Fritz Leiber (1947)
The Well of the Unicorn
Fletcher Pratt (1948)
You're All Alone
Fritz Leiber (1950)
The Dying Earth
Jack Vance (1950)
The Devil in Velvet
John Dickson Carr (1951)
The Tritonian Ring
L. Sprague de Camp (1951)
Three Hearts and Three Lions
Poul Anderson (1953)
The Sword of Rhiannon
Leigh Brackett (1953)
The Broken Sword
Poul Anderson (1954)
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-5)
The Golden Strangers
Henry Treece (1956)
The Great Captains
Henry Treece (1956)
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson (1959)
Stormbringer
Michael Moorcock (1963)
The Serpent (1963), Atlan (1965), The City (1966), and Some Summer Lands (1977)
Jane Gaskell
The Crystal World
J.G. Ballard (1964)
Black Easter (1967) and The Day After Judgement (1968)
James Blish
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin (1967)
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
The Green Man
Kingsley Amis (1969)
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
Gordon Honeycombe (1969)
The Philosopher's Stone
Colin Wilson (1969)
The Pastel City
M. John Harrison (1971)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
Angela Carter (1972)
Red Shift
Alan Garner (1973)
The Compleat Enchanter
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (1975)
The Alteration
Kingsley Amis (1976)
Our Lady of Darkness
Fritz Leiber (1976)
The Drawing of the Dark
Tim Powers (1979)
The Sending
Geoffrey Household (1980)
The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett (1983)
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
Thomas M. Disch (1984)
Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd (1985)
Expecting Someone Taller
Tom Holt (1987)
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