My favorites:
- Mervyn Peake – Gormenghast
Great (5/5):
- Matthew Woodring Stover – Heroes Die
- Scott Lynch – The Lies of Locke Lamora
Good (4/5):
- China Mieville – Perdido Street Station
- China Mieville – The Railsea
- Glen Cook – The Black Company
- Homer – The Illiad
- J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter
- Joe Abercrombie – The First Law
- Mervyn Peake – Titus Groan
- Neil Gaiman – American Gods
- Poul Anderson – The Broken Sword
- Roger Zelazny – Lord of Light
- Scott Lynch – Red Seas Under Red Skies
- Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- Terry Pratchett – Making Money
Fine (3/5):
- Eric Flint – 1632
- Guy Gavriel Kay – A Song for Arbonne
- Jack Vance – Suldrun’s Garden
- J. R. R. Tolkien – Lord of the Rings
- Jeff Grubb – Warcraft: The Last Guardian
- Jonathan Stroud – The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Joan D. Vinge – The Snow Queen
- Mark Lawrence – Prince of Thorns
- Matthew Woodring Stover – Blade of Tyshalle
- Michael Moorcock – Elric of Melnibone
- R.K. Gordon – Beowulf
- Robert Silverberg – A Time of Changes
- Sin-liqe-unninni – The Epic of Gilgamesh
Meh (2/5):
- Bible – Torah
- Eric Flint – 1633
- Gene Wolfe – The Book of the New Sun
- Glen Cook – Shadow Games
- Glen Cook – The Silver Spike
- H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines
- Jim Butcher – Dresden Files: Storm Front
- Lev Grossman – The Magicians
- N.K. Jemisin – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
- Peter V. Brett – The Warded Man
- Robin Hobb – Assassin’s Apprentice
- Stephen King – The Gunslinger
- Ursula K. Le Guin – A Wizard of Earthsea
- Wilbur Smith – River God
- Yahtzee Croshaw – Mogworld
Bad (1/5):
- Brandon Sanderson – Mistborn: Final Empire
- Raymond E. Feist – Daughter of the Empire
- Stephen R. Donaldson – Lord Foul’s Bane
Crap (0/5):
- Patrick Rothfuss – The Name of the Wind