Find your next SF/F read by mood

Alan Garnerstandalone novel1965

Set in contemporary.

“Set primarily in modern Manchester, it features four English children who enter a fantasy world, fulfill a quest there, and return to find that the enemy has followed them into our world.”
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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
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Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe →

includes Narnia, Narnia Solo Adventures

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.”
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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

CorbenicNovel

Catherine Fisherstandalone novel2002

Mythic fantasy, reflective in tone, about madness and redemption.

“Following a muddy path leads him to a castle that appears to be deserted.”
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Prospero and Roger BaconSeries

series2 books1969

completed

Dark in tone, about wizards.

“The Face in the Frost, John Bellairs's only adult fantasy novel, follows two aging wizards, Prospero and Roger Bacon, as they track down a rising magical evil that has started to unravel the world around them.”
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Start with The Face in the Frost →

The SpindlersNovel

Lauren Oliverstandalone novel2012

Adventurous in tone, set in otherworld and underground & caves.

“Accompanied by an eccentric, human-sized rat, Liza embarks on a perilous quest through an underground realm to save her brother, Patrick, whose soul has been stolen by the evilest of creatures--the spider-like spindlers.”
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