Fantasy books for people who don't like fantasy

I don't think I'm the only person who really enjoys supernatural/fantasy fiction, but hates the 'sword-and-sorcery' staples like Lord of the Rings (especially the movies) or Game of Thrones. I'm always on the look-out for unusual, inventive and whimsical fantasy literature, so here's an always-expanding list of the best I've found:

• Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory: THE original King Arthur stories, actually an incredibly great read (okay, I lied, it's not the original, but it's the original compilation of stories from the French and English cycles)
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis: so much better than Lord of the Rings (except The Last Battle, we don't talk about The Last Battle). Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a definite high point in this series.
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis: an epistolary novel of advice from one demon to another on how to tempt humans into sin. Has a saccharine Christian message, but is overall hysterical.
• Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis: a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, has a Christian slant to it, but you don't have to pay attention. Really good characterisation and touching story.
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf: it's Virginia Woolf. Need I say more? In case anyone thinks Woolf doesn't have a sense of humour, this novel is hilarious
• Phantastes by George MacDonald: one of the first books about entering another world, inspired many twentieth-century fantasy authors. Gorgeous style, somewhat rambling, but too overwhelmingly beautiful for that to make a difference
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien: like I said, I dislike Lord of the Rings, but The Hobbit is a masterpiece. Endearing, engaging and beautifully told.
• Tales from the Perilous Realm by J. R. R. Tolkien: an anthology of Tolkien's shorter tales and stories, which, again, are so much better than Lord of the Rings. There are some poems that relate to Middle Earth, but they're whimsical and adorable, not the soul-crushing, faux-Norse saga epic of Lord of the Rings. The short stories are unrelated to Middle Earth, probably the best are 'Leaf by Niggle' and 'Smith of Wootton Major'.
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke: I was not prepared for how good this book was. A perfect combination of magic, history, and humour. Yes, it's incredibly long, but by the time I finished it, I was wishing it were ten times longer. Basically The Chronicles of Narnia told by Jane Austen. (The BBC production was awful)
• Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen: intense and supremely uncanny short stories, told in a gorgeously creepy and beautiful style. Vastly underrated.
• The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany: run-of-the-mill fairy tale plot, stunning language and imagery. Dunsany creates a world almost overwhelming in its lush enchantment. One of the best things about this book is the way it describes the operation of magic not on merely a physical level, but on a mental and psychological one.
• Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany: look, I'm not going to pretend that I know what the hell is going on in this book, but it's absolutely stunning and if you feel like reading a book that is going to leave you totally petrified with how beautiful it is in style and imagery, this is a very good choice. It's a collection of stories about gods and other powers set in an alternative universe with bizarre names. 
• A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany: more of the same.
• The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany: the stories in this collection are so bizarre that they could be classed as weird fiction, but they have an element of humour and playfulness that is usually absent from the weird. Delightfully strange.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: I'll never understand how a novel so short has everything you can possibly want from a book
• short stories by Robert Aickman: Aickman wrote probably the scariest stories I've ever read, so unsettling that they will make you feel like you have no idea what reality is and make you terrified of everything and everyone you encounter. A supreme master of the weird. I really liked the reprint collection The Wine-Dark Sea, published by Faber in 2014.
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: a really uneven book, the parts that are good are absolutely hysterical, the bits that are bad (especially the last 1/2-1/3 of the book) are really annoying and moralistic. But the idea of an angel and demon being friends and being completely incompetent at everything is genius. 
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett: a Discworld novel about a con artist who is appointed to overhaul a defunct post office. Absolutely hilarious. (As a side note, I'm not a fan of the Discworld novels, I think this one is very different)
• Making Money by Terry Pratchett: and the amazing sequel
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman: I usually find Neil Gaiman's writing annoyingly self-conscious and pretentious in a weird way, but Neverwhere is a delight. It's very predictable, but it's exciting, touching and sometimes funny. Basically a variation on the age-old 'gone to fairyland' plot. 
• The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey by Mervyn Wall: a mostly hilarious (but sometimes really depressing) story about a lay brother in a medieval Irish monastery who is haunted by demons, gets kicked out of the monastery and has all sorts of crazy adventures. Along the way, he meets the Devil, gets married, becomes a sorcerer, falls in love, gets the girl, loses the girl, has a cow fall in love with him, and tries to be evil.
• Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie: the childhood classic that no child has actually read. A whimsical and nostalgic flight of fancy told in a bewitching and highly unique style.
• Tales from the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee: a bold collection of Arabian Nights-type novels that are almost literary fairy tales. Highly reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's style, and showing considerable influence of modernist and good fantasy writers such as Virginia Woolf and C. S. Lewis. Some pretty disturbing sexual content occasionally, but fantastically written. 
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde: alternate universe fantasy where the Crimean War never ended, and everyone is obsessed with literature. Hilarious and creative, very fun to read. Most of the magic consists of people being able to jump into books, also many sci-fi and steampunk elements such as time travel, weird technology, etc.
• Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch: a police officer in training is recruited to the supernatural division of the Met. Fast-paced, hilarious, exciting and engaging, really satisfying and clever. The series does (predictably) get worse as it goes on.
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees: a very whimsical and very strange story about a town where it is forbidden to eat fairy fruit and people have distractingly funny names
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner: a eternally helpful spinster aunt goes off to live in the country and become a witch. Totally bizarre and somehow adorable.
• Dracula by Bram Stoker: the father and grandfather of all the vampire stories we now live with. Slightly over-the-top, but actually a really good book.
• The Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper: a children's series, but manages to find the wonderful balance between new fantasy, old legend, and solid characterisation. Somewhat obscure in parts, but the sort of children's book you want to read at any time of life.
• The Ill-Made Knight by T. H. White: the best book in the Arthurian Once and Future King series (which ranges from wince-worthy to genius). Engages with very complex themes while staying true to the legend. An impressive combination of contemporary style and concerns with the characters of mythology.
• The Worlds of Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones (except Witch Week): I know everyone loves Howl's Moving Castle, but I wasn't impressed by it at all. The Chrestomanci books, however, are amazing, both really inventive and delightfully familiar for anyone who loves the Narnia books. My favourites were The Lives of Christopher Chant and The Pinhoe Egg, but they're all great except Witch Week, which is unaccountably absolutely terrible and boring.
  
• the tales of E. T. A. Hoffman: deliciously bizarre stories by the German Romantic author. Despite the fact that Freud tried to ruin them for everyone by insisting that 'The Sandman' is about castration anxiety, still some of the best literary fairy tales, unnerving and fascinating.
• In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu: lovely collection of mid-later 19th century supernatural stories, including the famous 'Green Tea' and the 'lesbian vampire' novella 'Carmilla'.
• The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen: decadent fin-de-siecle extravaganza of occult objects, people melting into puddles of undefined substances, and the labyrinths of London. No one knows what it's actually about.
• short stories by Arthur Machen: all of his stories are concerned with terrifying occult practices and occurrences, he can get a bit melodramatic, but is really good at creating an atmosphere of horror. His two best-known stories are 'The Great God Pan' and 'The White People'
• short stories by Algernon Blackwood: a lot like Machen, also horrifying, never fully explained occult happenings, delightfully creepy.
• Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake: basically Charles Dickens on a lot of really good acid. A bit too grotesque for me, but an absolute masterpiece. The third book in the series, Titus Alone, suddenly fell off the rails and is not worth it. (There's a 2000s BBC production that fucked everything up, but is sort of great on its own).
• Hauntings by Vernon Lee: a collection of wonderfully creepy late Victorian short stories, rather similar in style to Oscar Wilde. One of the best features of them is that they are never fully explained and remain tantalizingly mysterious. 
• The Weird ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer: a gigantic and incredible collection of the best 'weird fiction' from the start of the 20th century to today. So many deliciously creepy and terrifying stories by authors I've never even heard of, so many forgotten gems. Almost all of the stories are exceptionally well-written, disturbing, and engaged in deep philosophical, psychological and theoretical issues. One of the most consistent and powerful short story collections I've ever encountered, worth every bit of the gigantic length. 
• Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips: the Olympian gods are still around, but they've lost most of their power and are now squeezed into one very old London townhouse and they all hate each other. The story is fairly boring and predictable, but the gods and their present-day issues are hilarious. Aphrodite is now a phone sex line operator and Apollo has a psychic show. Enough said.
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: the devil arrives in early Soviet Moscow. There are witches. Part of it is also about Jesus, but whatever. Way funnier if you know a lot about Soviet Russia. Also a snarky cat. 
• late 19th century literary fairy tales: this is a personal favourite of mine, there were many literary fairy tales published in the fin-de-siecle, now mostly forgotten. The best I've read have been The House of the Pomegranates and The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, The House of Joy by Laurence Housman, On a Pincushion and The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde by Mary de Morgan.