(so very much in progress)

Or at least my favorites. To save myself a little effort I'm limiting myself to one book per author - an asterisk after the title basically means it would be a long list of that author's works but that title is pretty much my favorite. Multiple-author anthologies are of course open season.

• Strange Wine* by Harlan Ellison
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
• The World According to Garp* by John Irving
• Threshhold* by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Swordspoint* by Ellen Kushner
• Blue Belle* by Andrew Vachss
• Perfume by Patrick Suskind
• Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
• In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead* by James Lee Burke
• Bad Men* by John Connolly
• Neverland* by Douglas Clegg
• Silver Scream* edited by David Schow
• A Mortal Glamour* by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Any and all Bordertown anthologies
• Testament by David Morrell
• A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
• Cutting Edge edited by Dennis Etchison
• Forests of the Heart* by Charles de Lint
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• The Books of Blood* by Clive Barker (yes, that really is kind of cheating, especially since I'm referring to all six books, not just the three that were released in the U.S.)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau* by H.G. Wells
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* by L. Frank Baum
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Good Omens* by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• Point Last Seen* by Hannah Nyalah
• The Psalms of Herod* by Esther Friesner
• Neuromancer* by William Gibson
• Hot Blood* edited by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend
• Prince Ombra by Roderick MacLeish
• All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By by John Farris
• Fitcher's Brides by Gregory Frost
• Briar Rose* by Jane Yolen
• Everday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck
• Drawing Blood* by Poppy Z. Brite
• Blood Meridian* by Cormac McCarthy
• Koko* by Peter Straub
• Daughter of Night by Elaine Bergstrom
• The Wolfen* by Whitley Streiber
• Razored Saddles edited by Joe R. Lansdale
• Blood Is Not Enough edited by Ellen Datlow
• Live Girls* by Ray Garton
• Of Love and Shadows* by Isabel Allende
• A Winter Haunting* by Dan Simmons
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* by Richard Adams
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Danse Macabre* by Stephen King
• The Elementals* by Michael McDowell
• Night Calls* by David Pirie
• And Then There Were None* by Agatha Christie
• Final Curtain* by Ngaio Marsh
• The Temptation of Blood by David Niall Wilson
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Boys Life* by Robert McCammon
• Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
• Ghoul* by Michael Slade
• Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski
• Created By by Richard Christian Matheson