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Purgatory Reign is 4 books, 2013–2018.

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His Dark Materials
Stephen King multiverse
Kairos
Shannara
The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Otherworld (Kelley Armstrong)
Silver Sequence
Watership Down
Darwath

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

Post-apocalyptic, about psychic powers, set in far future.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
from the catalogue description of Obernewtyn
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Start with Obernewtyn →

Otherworld (Kelley Armstrong)Series

seriesKelley Armstrong & Seanan McGuire100 books1996

Paranormal and urban fantasy, set in contemporary and north america.

“Each book tends to follow a different member of this hidden community while slowly building a shared, continuing world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Paranormal Romance Blues →

Silver SequenceSeries

seriesCliff McNish3 books2003

About coming of age.

“Drawn to a wasteland of garbage dumps called Coldharbour, six children undergo mysterious transformations and band together to face an unknown enemy.”
from the catalogue description of The Silver Child

Start with The Silver Child →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests and found family, set in countryside & village and contemporary.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

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What should I read after Purgatory Reign?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to Purgatory Reign on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Purgatory Reign?: Purgatory Reign. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Purgatory Reign.
How big is Purgatory Reign?: Purgatory Reign is 4 books, 2013–2018.

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