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series7 books2006

About con artists, set in big city.

“The Lies of Locke Lamora and its two sequels braid heist capers with flashbacks tracing how the gang was trained, escalating into a wider conflict involving crime lords and sorcerers.”
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Start with The Lies of Locke Lamora →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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Start with Six of Crows →

includes Six of Crows, The Nikolai Duology, The Grisha

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, Canticle, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, First of the Sun, Warbreaker, Threnody, Komashi

Queen's ThiefSeries

series41 books1996

About political intrigue.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
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Start with The Thief →

Flightless FalconNovel

Mickey Zucker Reichertstandalone novel2000

About quests and survival.

“Tamison had been a miner until the cave-in which killed his brother and father, and left him trapped behind a wall of rubble, cut off from light and life for what seemed like eternity.”
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MaradaineUniverse

universe19 books2015

Set in big city.

“The tramlines of Maradaine run through everything — past the University spires, down the gaslit alleys of Dentonhill, across the cold marble of Parliament.”
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Start with The Holver Alley Crew →

includes The Streets of Maradaine, Maradaine Elite, Maradaine Constabulary, Maradaine Saga

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