The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories

10 best books like The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (Tom Shippey): My Favorite Fantasy Story, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, The Leaky Establishment, The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy, The Magic Shop, The Boys' Book: How to be the Best at Everything, The Complete Peanuts, 1955-1958, Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations, Footrot Flats One, Here Comes Garfield

My Favorite Fantasy Story

Author	Martin H. Greenberg
ISBN	0886779057

Who do today's top fantasy writers read--and why? This was the question posed to some of the most influential authors in the field today. This book is their answer. Here are seventeen of the most memorable stories in the genre, each one personally selected by a well-known writer, and each prefaced by...

Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0060817127

*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...

The Leaky Establishment

Author	David Langford
ISBN	1592241255

_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen...

The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy

Author

Mike Ashley

Mike Ashley is back with an all-new edition of one of the bestselling Mammoth Books ever, from the funniest writers in the field, including Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, and Terry Jones. The thirty- five off-the-wall comic fantasies featured in Ashley's new collection are a mix of specially written stories...

The Magic Shop

Author	Denise Little
ISBN	0756401739

An anthology of 15 stories whose themes revolve around a magic shop. This is a nice collection as the stories vary greatly.

Susan Sizemore’s Every Little Thing She Does is a cute romance between a mundane and the owner of a not-too-successful magic shop in Scotland. Overtly, the stubborn...

The Boys' Book: How to be the Best at Everything

Author	Dominique Enright
ISBN	1905158645

At last a book that no boy, young or old, should be without; a book that guarantees hours of fun; a book that shows readers exactly how to be the best at everything. Who could resist?
Find out how to slam dunk a basketball, how to build a basic raft, how to write in secret code, how to find water in the desert,...

The Complete Peanuts, 1955-1958

Author

Charles M. Schulz

A gift set of the third and fourth Complete Peanuts volumes.

A boxed set of the third and fourth volumes, just in time for the holidays, designed by the award-winning graphic novelist, Seth! The collection of books identical to the individual volumes ships shrinkwrapped, with Vols. 1955-1956...

Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations

Author	Tomoko Fuse
ISBN	0870408526

TOMOKO FUSE is recognized at home and abroad as one of the most original and exciting of all up-and-coming origami talents. In this book, she explains her method for combining folded-paper units in an insertion fashion that results in an endless sequence of multidimensional variations giving new...

Footrot Flats One

Author	Murray Ball
ISBN	0958819033

Norman Tebbit's "cricket test" for New Zealanders has two requirements: 1) Acknowledge the All Blacks as the greatest sports team EVER and for all time and 2) love Footrot Flats.

A question in the NZ Trivial Pursuit is "Who runs the dog?", the answer - as any Kiwi knows - is Wal.

Footrot...

Here Comes Garfield

Author	Jim Davis
ISBN	0345320123

After sweeping the country in over 1,000 newspapers and five incredible best sellers -- Garfield on TV!!

Now, the funniest, grouchiest, laziest cat of all time in his first full-length, full-color musical special!

Here Comes Garfield
Starring America's favorite cat, his...

The Unseen University Cut-Out Book

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0385609442

A must-have accessory for the most dedicated Pratchett fans — a Discworld cut-out book for adults.

The phenomenal Discworld series has a new addition to its growing hoard of artifacts — a cut-out book for adults. An extraordinary feat of paper engineering, the cut-out book contains the...

You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0441949789

(This is a choose your own adventure book)

You are the stainless steel rat...

...well, almost. The newest recruit in the Special Corps, you take your orders from the legendary Slippery Jim diGriz. Rogue. Rascal. And master-criminal turned cop. Linked by a hi-tech mind-meld, he'll...