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Kairos
His Dark Materials
The Mortal Instruments
The Vampire Chronicles
Every Day
de Lint Master Mythos
The Midnight World
Nebula Awards
American Gods

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue description

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The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue description

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The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

Horror and gothic, dark in tone, about vampires.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
from the catalogue description of Interview with the Vampire
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Every DaySeries

seriesDavid Levithan3 books2012

Romance, about body swap.

“David Levithan's Every Day follows A, a consciousness with no fixed body who wakes each morning inside a different person's life, and who falls for a girl named Rhiannon despite the impossibility of ever staying in one body to be with her.”
from the catalogue description

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de Lint Master MythosUniverse

universe151 books1977

Urban fantasy.

“Newford you find by ear — a fiddle tune drifting up from a subway grate, a story a friend swears is true, the particular hush of an alley where the streetlight never quite reaches.”
from the catalogue description

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The Midnight WorldSeries

seriesMatt Haig2 books2020

About second chance and grief and loss.

“In particular, they frequently wonder how different things might have been had they made other choices at pivotal moments in their lives.”
from the catalogue description of The Midnight Library

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Nebula AwardsSeries

seriesStephen Kotowych, James Morrow, George Zebrowski, Jack Dann, Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, Catherine Asaro, Robert Silverberg, Ben Bova, Bill Fawcett, Brian W. Aldiss, Catherynne M. Valente, Clifford D. Simak, Connie Willis, Damon Knight, Ellen Datlow, Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Gardner Dozois, Gordon R. Dickson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, James E. Gunn, James Patrick Kelly, Jane Yolen, Jerry Oltion, Jerry Pournelle, Joe Haldeman, John Crowley, John F. Carr, John Kessel, Julie E. Czerneda, Kate Wilhelm, Kelly Link, Kevin J. Anderson, Kij Johnson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Linda Nagata, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Marta Randall, Mercedes Lackey, Mike Resnick, Nibedita Sen, Nicola Griffith, Poul Anderson, Premee Mohamed, Richard Chwedyk, Robert J. Sawyer, Roger Zelazny, Samuel R. Delany, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, uncredited, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre & Vylar Kaftan75 books1966

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American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

Mythic fantasy, about gods.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

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What should I read after Color Theory?: Kairos — the closest match to Color Theory on what it is about, not on what sells.
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How big is Color Theory?: Color Theory is 3 books, 2022–2024.

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