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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

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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Start with Elric of Melniboné →

includes The Elric Saga, Corum, Hawkmoon, Eternal Champion, Oswald Bastable, Warrior of Mars

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, Elantris, The Stormlight Archive, Warbreaker, Canticle, Lumar, Cosmere non-canon, Threnody

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“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.”
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Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, Heritage of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Legends of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, Paladins of Shannara

SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy, about quests.

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Diamond Throne →

includes Elenium, The Tamuli

LyraSeries

series5 books1982

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“THERE STANDS A TWISTED TOWER... hidden in the Windhome Mountains.”
from the catalogue

Start with Caught in Crystal →

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