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universe526 books1987

Epic fantasy.

“Come in from the cold and mind the door — the wind off the Sword Coast has teeth.”
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includes Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt, Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords, Sage of Shadowdale / Elminster, Forgotten Realms: The Threat from the Sea, Forgotten Realms: The Year of Rogue Dragons, Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate, Forgotten Realms: Shandril's Saga, Forgotten Realms: Starlight and Shadows

Brak the BarbarianSeries

series16 books1963

completed

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”
from the catalogue

Start with Brak the Barbarian →

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

ThongorSeries

series33 books1965

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“Thongor of Lemuria follows a barbarian warrior on the lost continent of Lemuria as he battles sorcerers, monsters, and rival kingdoms in a sword-and-sorcery setting inspired by Robert E. Howard's Conan.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Wizard of Lemuria →

Sir Hereward and Mister FitzSeries

series11 books2007

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“Rather than one continuous novel, the series unfolds through linked novellas and short stories gathered into standalone collections, mixing swashbuckling action with dry, understated humor.”
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Start with Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again →

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

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

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