Find your next SF/F read by mood

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Set in contemporary.

“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

Start with City of Bones →

includes The Infernal Devices, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Last Hours, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, The Eldest Curses, The Dark Artifices, Magnus Bane

The Advent TrilogySeries

series3 books2012

Eerie in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

“Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight.”
from the catalogue

Start with Advent →

Good OmensSeries

series2 books1990

Humor, funny in tone, about prophecy, set in contemporary.

Start with Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch →

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