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BirthgraveSeries
series3 books1975
completed
About revenge.
“The person: a woman awakening from a deathlike sleep.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Birthgrave →
GormenghastSeries
series6 books1946
completed
Gothic.
“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue
Start with Titus Groan →
EarthseaUniverse
universe19 books1964
Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.
“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →
includes Earthsea Cycle
Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries
series11 books1977
Epic fantasy.
Start with Lord Foul's Bane →
The Last UnicornSeries
series8 books1968
Bittersweet in tone.
“The Last Unicorn is Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel about a unicorn who, believing herself the last of her kind, sets out to learn what became of the others.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Last Unicorn →
The ScholomanceSeries
series3 books2020
Tense in tone, about survival and wizards.
Start with A Deadly Education →