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  • Cover of Malazan
    MalazanUniverse

    universe · 36 books · 1999

    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 →

    similar byepic fantasysecondary worlddark+4 more

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

  • Cover of Cosmere
    CosmereUniverse

    universe · 54 books · 2005

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

    “Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Final Empire →

    similar byepic fantasysecondary worldfantasy+2 more

    includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Warbreaker, First of the Sun, Threnody, Lumar, Cosmere non-canon

  • Cover of World of Ice and Fire
    World of Ice and FireUniverse

    universe · 19 books · 1980

    About war.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Game of Thrones →

    similar byepic fantasysecondary worldpolitical intriguedarkfantasy+1 more

    includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

  • Cover of The Circle of the World
    The Circle of the WorldUniverse

    universe · 29 books · 2006

    Grimdark.

    “What sets it apart is the honesty of its cynicism — close, sardonic points of view, gallows humour, and a flat refusal to let anyone stay clean.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Blade Itself →

    similar bysecondary worldfantasy+2 more

    includes The First Law Trilogy, The Age of Madness

  • Cover of New Crobuzon
    New CrobuzonSeries

    series · 4 books · 2000

    Weird fiction.

    “The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Perdido Street Station →

    similar bysecondary worldchallengingdarkfantasy+4 more

  • Cover of The Daevabad Trilogy
    The Daevabad TrilogySeries

    series · 5 books · 2017

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

    “Nahri is a con artist and unlicensed healer working the streets of 18th-century Cairo who accidentally summons Dara, a formidable djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism gone wrong.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The City of Brass →

    similar byepic fantasysecondary worldpolitical intriguefantasy