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  • Cover of The Dreamers
    The DreamersSeries

    series · 5 books · 2003

    completed

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about gods and dark lord, set in secondary world.

    “The Elder Gods are not permitted to use their powers to kill, but the young Dreamers can use their dreams to predict and affect the future.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Elder Gods →

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  • Cover of The Riftwar Universe
    The RiftwarUniverse

    universe · 44 books · 1982

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

    “On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Magician →

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    includes Serpentwar Saga, Riftwar Saga, Midkemian Trilogy [UK] / Chaoswar Saga [US], Darkwar Saga, Krondor's Sons, Conclave of Shadows, Demonwar Saga, The Riftwar Legacy

  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    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 →

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    includes The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of Middle Earth, The History of the Lord of the Rings

  • Cover of Sparhawk
    SparhawkUniverse

    universe · 6 books · 1989

    About quests.

    “Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Diamond Throne →

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    includes Elenium, The Tamuli

  • Cover of The Codex Alera
    The Codex AleraSeries

    series · 6 books · 2004

    About political intrigue.

    “Jim Butcher's six-book series, continuing through Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, and First Lord's Fury, builds from small-scale political maneuvering into full-scale war.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Furies of Calderon →

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  • Cover of Cosmere
    CosmereUniverse

    universe · 54 books · 2005

    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 →

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