Find your next SF/F read by mood

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

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

Start with Six of Crows →

includes Six of Crows, The Nikolai Duology, The Grisha

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone, about war.

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

Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Dark in tone, about war.

“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 →

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

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

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 →

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

Essalieyan / Annagar / BreodaniUniverse

universe24 books1995

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“In the god-born city of Averalaan, the Twin Kings hold their thrones by right of divine blood, ten proud Houses scheme behind their banners, and far to the north a Hunter kneels each year to a god who demands a death.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Broken Crown →

includes House War, The Burning Crown, The Sun Sword, Sacred Hunt

Fallen Gods / GodkillerSeries

series3 books2023

Dark in tone, about gods and war.

“Hannah Kaner's Godkiller follows Kissen, who lost her family to zealots of a fire god and now kills gods for a living, until she meets Skedi, a small god of white lies bound against his will to a young noble and hunted by assassins.”
from the catalogue

Start with Godkiller →

More like Cast in Oblivion