D&D 5E D&D Inspired By—What’s on your read list

[Coroc]

World of tiers by phillip jose farmer, for everything gate related.

Sometimes I also read the official canon of a campaign and tailor something new for me, like recently with rain of colourless fire for greyhawk.
This is a good classic trick: Something happened before in your campaign world, and now aspects of this or a similar situation occurs again. Does the party solve things similar, given the hooks or do they come up with something new?

 

[Wulffolk]

Recently, the Egil & Nix series by Paul S. Kemp. This has a really D&D style vibe to it, with compelling character's that actually have wit and personality.

 

[BookBarbarian]

The Fafryd and the Grey Mouser books are on my list, as is Dumas' Three Musketeers. I've read a lot of Poul Anderson, but still haven't gotten to the The Three Hearts and Three lions. So that's on there too. Never read Vance, so that's on there. Iv'e read the first Discworld, and need to read more.

I just started on Gene Wolf's New Sun, but I don't know if anyone claimed it was influential to D&D. I've also got some Karl Edward Wagner Kane books on there, but don't know if he was influential either. I've read the First book in the Belgariad, and have the next one on my list.

The big one to add to my list that come out of the threads about Tolkein is definitely Lord Dunsany.