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series21 books1972

completed

Adventurous in tone, about survival and quests, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue

Start with Watership Down →

FolktalesSeries

series3 books1978

Fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.

“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
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Start with Beauty →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

A Court of Thorns and RosesSeries

series6 books2015

Romantasy, about fae, set in secondary world.

“There are currently five novels in the series, with the sixth scheduled to release on October 27, 2026, and the seventh on January 12, 2027.”
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Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses →

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

series4 books2015

Fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.

“The two books share no characters or setting, only Novik's method of building a novel around one inherited folk tale.”
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Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

WinterlandsSeries

series7 books1986

About dragons and demons, set in secondary world.

“Once there, they learn Gareth is the crown prince, acting against his father's wishes, and that the dragon Morkeleb the Black is only one thread in a web that includes a sorceress with a grip on the king.”
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Start with Dragonsbane →

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