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universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue

Start with Titus Groan →

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue

Start with Perdido Street Station →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

series11 books1995

Start with Sabriel →

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Weird fiction, set in big city.

“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Saints and Madmen →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue

Start with Six of Crows →

includes The Nikolai Duology, The Grisha, Six of Crows

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