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  • Cover of An Ember in the Ashes
    An Ember in the AshesSeries

    series · 4 books · 2015

    Epic fantasy.

    “Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”

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    Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

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    CosmereUniverse

    universe · 54 books · 2005

    Epic fantasy.

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

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    Start with The Final Empire →

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    includes Mistborn, Canticle, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Threnody, Warbreaker, Komashi, Lumar

  • Cover of Red Queen
    Red QueenSeries

    series · 14 books · 2015

    Dystopia, about class conflict.

    “Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”

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    Start with Queen Song →

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  • 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.”

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    Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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

  • Cover of The Riftwar Universe
    The RiftwarUniverse

    universe · 44 books · 1982

    Epic fantasy.

    “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.”

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    Start with Magician →

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    includes Kelewan Empire, Serpentwar Saga, Riftwar Saga, Darkwar Saga, Legends of the Riftwar, Conclave of Shadows, Demonwar Saga, The Riftwar Legacy

  • Cover of Rigante
    RiganteSeries

    series · 4 books · 1998

    completed

    Epic fantasy, about war.

    “Fierce and proud, the Rigante dwell deep in the green mountain lands, worshiping the gods of air and water, and the spirits of the earth.”

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    Start with Sword in the Storm →

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