[WillAdams]

The lists need a rule #5: No Extruded Fantasy Product (EFP), and a Rule #6, written since Lindsay's _A Voyage to Arcturus_ to cut out the listing of folkore works.

I'd also change Rule #3 to be ``list only one milieu's worth of books for a given author'', so that for Tolkien, one would list The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales and The Children of Hurin (and completionists may go on to read all the volumes of The Complete History of Middle Earth), and rather than allow Michael Moorcock to slip in everything w/ his ``Eternal Champion Multiverse'' we'd limit him to just The tales of Elric of Melniboné w/a note that people may go on to read the balance of the Eternal Champion books.

- Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy or his Dying Earth books, needs to be on any such list.
- ditto for Andre Norton's Witchworld
- for the Arthurian representation, I'd've picked Steinbeck's _The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights_

There are a few other books which I'm surprised to not see on any of the lists.

Books I was glad to see listed:

- Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword
- Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter
- Lovecraft's Dream of Unknown Kaddath
- Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising
- LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy
- Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown

Mildly surprised that Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series made it on one list --- this series started off quite strongly, but then really lost it for me when the god of War book didn't live up to the promise of Ares in the preceding volume.