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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

series11 books1995

Set in secondary world.

Start with Sabriel →

Chronicles of the Necromancer UniverseSeries

series30 books2007

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with The Summoner →

Johannes CabalSeries

series9 books2004

Funny in tone.

“Johannes Cabal the Necromancer follows an amoral necromancer who sold his soul years earlier and must now win it back from Satan through a wager, journeying through a demonic travelling carnival to collect the hundred souls required.”
from the catalogue

Start with Johannes Cabal the Necromancer →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war, set in secondary world.

“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 →

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

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

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

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

Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

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