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  • Cover of World of Ice and Fire
    World of Ice and FireUniverse

    universe · 19 books · 1980

    About political intrigue.

    “Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Game of Thrones →

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    includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

  • Cover of Malazan
    MalazanUniverse

    universe · 36 books · 1999

    “Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gardens of the Moon →

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    includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Witness Trilogy

  • Cover of Cosmere
    CosmereUniverse

    universe · 54 books · 2005

    Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

    “Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Final Empire →

    similar bysecondary worldfantasyepic fantasy+2 more

    includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Threnody, Canticle, Elantris, First of the Sun, Warbreaker, Lumar

  • Cover of Shannara
    ShannaraUniverse

    universe · 50 books · 1977

    Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

    “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
    Start with Imaginary Friends →

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    includes Heritage of Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, Word and the Void, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, Paladins of Shannara

  • Cover of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
    Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

    series · 11 books · 1977

    About quests.

    Start with Lord Foul's Bane →

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  • Cover of The Circle of the World
    The Circle of the WorldUniverse

    universe · 29 books · 2006

    Fantasy and grimdark, set in secondary world.

    “What sets it apart is the honesty of its cynicism — close, sardonic points of view, gallows humour, and a flat refusal to let anyone stay clean.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Blade Itself →

    similar bysecondary worldfantasygrimdark+4 more

    includes The First Law Trilogy, The Age of Madness