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

    universe · 19 books · 1980

    Fantasy and epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

    “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 Grishaverse
    GrishaverseUniverse

    universe · 19 books · 2012

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with Six of Crows →

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    includes The Nikolai Duology, The Grisha, Six of Crows

  • 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, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy, Witness Trilogy

  • Cover of An Ember in the Ashes
    An Ember in the AshesSeries

    series · 4 books · 2015

    About rebellion and revolution.

    “Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

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  • Cover of Dragon Age (Bioware RPG tie-in)
    Dragon Age (Bioware RPG tie-in)Series

    series · 21 books · 2009

    Fantasy and epic fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

    “The Stolen Throne and The Calling serve as prequels filling in the backstory of characters central to the first game, while later books such as Asunder and The Masked Empire tie more directly into the plots and politics of the sequels.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Stolen Throne →

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  • Cover of Dragon Trilogies
    Dragon TrilogiesSeries

    series · 6 books · 1988

    About dragons.

    “The Dragon Prince trilogy focuses on Prince Rohan of the Desert and his Sunrunner wife, Sioned, while the Dragon Star trilogy focuses on their son, Pol.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Dragon Prince →

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