Appendix N

I've hit something of a rut in my reading (audiobooking?) and I've decided to go through Appendix N. Here is the list according to the original DMG. I've bolded the ones I've read. Sadly not enough.

Anderson, Poul: THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS; THE HIGH CRUSADE; THE BROKEN SWORD 

Bellairs, John. THE FACE I N THE FROST

Brackett, Leigh.

Brown, Fredric.

Burroughs, Edgar Rice. "Pellucidar" Series; Mars Series; Venus Series 

Carter, Lin. "World's End'' Series 

deCamp, L. Sprague. LEST DARKNESS FALL;  FALLIBLE FIEND;  etal. 

de Camp & Pratt. "Harold Shea" Series; CARNELIAN CUBE 

Derleth, August.

Dunsany, Lord. 

Farmer, P. J. "The World of the Tiers" Series; et al. 

Fox, Gardner. "Kothar" Series; "Kyrik" Series; et of.(1) 

Howard, R. E. "Conan" Series (2)

Lanier, Sterling. HIEROS JOURNEY 

Leiber,Fritz. "Fafhrd &Gray Mouser" Series; et al.(3)

Lovecraft, H. P. 

Merritt, A. CREEP, SHADOW, CREEP; MOON POOL; DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE; et of. 

Moorcock, Michael. STORMBRINGER; STEALER OF SOULS; "Hawkmoon" Series (esp.the first three books)(4) 

Norton, Andre

Offutt, Andrew J., editor SWORDS AGAINST DARKNESS Ill.(5)

Pratt, Fletcher, BLUE STAR; et al.

Saberhagen, Fred. CHANGELING EARTH;  et al.

St. Clair, Margaret. THE SHADOW PEOPLE; SIGN OF THE LABRYS 

Tolkien, J. R. R. THE HOBBIT; "Ring Trilogy" 

Vance, Jack. THE EYES OF THE OVERWORLD;  THE DYING EARTH; et

Weinbaum, Stanley.

Wellman, Manly Wade.

Williamson, Jack.

Zelazny, Roger. JACK OF SHADOWS; "Amber"  Series; et of. 

The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, REH, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, HPL, and A. Merritt; 

(1) Free Audio versions dropped a month ago on Audible.com and may go away. Read by AI which is odd since it doesn't know the difference between a Bow (to show deference by bending at the waist) and a Bow (a long range medieval weapon). It's jarring at times.

(2) Re-read these multiple times. Even the old pastaches by Sprague and DeCamp.

(3) Keep trying to get into Fafhrd & Gray Mouser without success. Maybe I'll just skip the first book and try with the second next time I try.

(4) Read all the Elric books in the 80s but he kept writing them so I'm far behind now, but I've read everyone that Gygax was talking about.

(5) Andre Offutt wrote a bunch of Cormac MacArt books (character created by Robert E. Howard) that I read in the 80s. Nowhere to be found these days. So many fantasy books from the 80s just disappeared. Whoever owns the rights should start dropping them into Kindle and making a few bucks. The hard works already done.