Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe →

includes Narnia, Narnia Solo Adventures

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

The SightSeries

series2 books2001

Dark in tone, about coming of age.

“David Clement-Davies' The Sight follows Larka, a white wolf born with a rare prophetic power, within a pack shadowed by a curse laid by the embittered lone wolf Morgra.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Sight →

Howl's CastleSeries

series3 books1986

completed

Whimsical in tone.

Start with Howl's Moving Castle →

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
from the catalogue

Start with Elric of Melniboné →

includes The Elric Saga, Eternal Champion, Hawkmoon, Corum, Warrior of Mars, Oswald Bastable

DeryniUniverse

universe44 books1970

Historical fantasy, tense in tone, about political intrigue, set in medieval.

“In the kingdom of Gwynedd, power is at once a sacrament and a heresy.”
from the catalogue

Start with Deryni Rising →

includes Chronicles of the Deryni, The Histories of King Kelson, The Childe Morgan, Legends of Saint Camber, The Heirs of Saint Camber

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