My Appendix N Public

Created by Fred Johansen

This is my personal version of the Appendix N "Inspirational Reading" list from the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, Appendix N. (I'm using the 1983 edition.)

By personal version I mean those works that to me seem a good starting point, as well as representing an attempt at a practical delimitation of a list that is pretty open-ended.—For the original Appendix N lists not only specific works, but in addition the names of many authors, some of which wrote in multiple genres. Including the entire bibliography of those authors would probably be overkill.

  1. The Hobbit by  (The Lord of the Rings)

    5 stars

    In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …

  2. The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) by 

    4 stars

    The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …

  3. Darker than you think by 

    No rating

    Who is the Child of Night? That's what small-town reporter Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a …

  4. Jack of Shadows by 

    3 stars

    An overpowering adventure of a world half in darkness, half in light...

    The Earth no longer rotates. Sciences rule the …

  5. Nine Princes in Amber by  (Amber, #1)

    4 stars

    First in the "Chronicles of Amber" series of fantasy books. The story begins in the hospital when the protagonist wakes …

  6. The Guns of Avalon (Sphere science fiction)

    No rating

  7. The Hand of Oberon by 

    4 stars

    Book 4 of the Chronicles of Amber. One of the princes of Amber desires her destruction... and re-creation of his …

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