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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
TortallUniverse
universe25 books1983
About coming of age.
“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
from the catalogue
Start with Alanna: The First Adventure →
includes Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Beka Cooper / Provost's Dog, Daughter of the Lioness, Protector of the Small, The Numair Chronicles
His Dark MaterialsUniverse
universe13 books1995
About coming of age.
“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
Mordant's NeedSeries
series2 books1986
Fantasy and portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.
Start with The Mirror of Her Dreams →
Queen's ThiefSeries
series41 books1996
“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Thief →
World of Ice and FireUniverse
universe19 books1980
Dark in tone.
“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Game of Thrones →
includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History