Jeff VanderMeer’s Exhaustive Reading List


Jeff VanderMeer is compiling a list of the “Exhaustive Essential Fantasy Reading.” If you’re looking for a summer project, or just to find some gems you might have missed, check this massive (and somewhat humbling) list out. If you think he’s missed something, he’s welcoming input.

About the Author

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The trilogy’s first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer’s other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New WeirdThe Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction.

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