Stephen R. Donaldson

Creator of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series of books which now number seven volumes and is most notable for its use of the anti-hero in which the main character maintains a reluctance to actually take on the mantle of the hero. He has written several other series in the genre.

Donaldson, Stephen R.
-- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

• Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1)
• The Illearth War: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book Two
• The Power That Preserves (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 3)

The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

• The Wounded Land (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1)
• The One Tree (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 2)
• White Gold Wielder (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3)

The Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

• The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1)
• Fatal Revenant
• Shall Pass Utterly
• The Last Dark

-- Mordant's Need:

• The Mirror of Her Dreams
• A Man Rides Through