(first in the series pictured here)#2) A Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin. A multibook dark fantasy epic, with several books still unwritten, creating an even deeper more multileveled fantasy world than Tolkien. In my own fantasy trilogy, Destiny's Circle, even though it is a young adult novel, it more closely emulates Martin's violent, merciless intensity than any other fantasy writer.
Mitch Lits
