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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

About war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
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Start with Gardens of the Moon →

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

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.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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

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.”
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Start with Elric of Melniboné →

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

DragonlanceUniverse

universe436 books1984

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The gods have kept their silence over Krynn for three hundred years, and the world has learned to make do without them: the dragons are a nursery tale, the old clerics gone, faith worn down to superstition.”
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Start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight →

includes Dragonlance: Legends Trilogy, Dragonlance: The War of Souls, Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragonlance: The Dark Disciple Trilogy, Dragonlance: Chaos War, Dragonlance: Tales II, Dragonlance: Tales I, Dragonlance Destinies

A Chorus of Dragons / Godslayer CycleSeries

series5 books2019

About demons.

“The five-book series is told through interleaved, non-chronological narration rather than a single straightforward timeline.”
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Start with The Ruin of Kings →

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