Humorous Fantasy
- Piers Anthony's Xanth series liked to incorporate puns and jokes into his fantasy.
- Robert Asprin's Myth series was about the misadventures of a young wizard and the dimension-hopping demon he befriends.
- Terry Pratchett's Disc World is one of the funniest, cleverest series I've ever read.
Modern Fantasy
- Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth is a clever take on werewolves.
- Trader by Charles de Lint is the fourth in his Newford series, about folk magic in the city.
- Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job is one of his many funny tales of freaky magic in the modern day.
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman is an amusing take on the Apocalypse.
Alternate Worlds
- West of Eden is the first of Harry Harrison's cool Eden series about evolved dinosaurs at war with primitive man.
- Seventh Son is the first of Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, about a magical American Frontier.
- Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse is the first of his Incarnations of Immortality series.
- Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a clever whodunit about a Jewish state in Alaska.
Bug Wars
- Starship Troopers is Robert Heinlein's classic story of future warfare in space.
- Joe Haldeman's The Forever War is also a classic about the burdens of future soldiers.
- John Steakley's Armor is about the intertwining stories of two men.
- Old Man's War is the first in John Scalzi's series about rejuvenated seniors at war.
