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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse
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.”
from the catalogue
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
FolktalesSeries
series3 books1978
Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.
“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue
Start with Beauty →
PoisonNovel
Chris Woodingstandalone novel2003
Portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about fae.
Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries
series4 books2015
Fantasy and 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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →
Rose (Edith Pattou)Series
series2 books2003
Adventurous in tone.
Start with East →
Grimm TalesSeries
series3 books2010
“In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Tale Dark and Grimm →