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BartimaeusSeries

series4 books2003

Fantasy and alternate history, about wizards and demons.

Start with The Amulet of Samarkand →

The Difference EngineNovel

William Gibson & Bruce Sterlingstandalone novel1990

Science fiction and steampunk, set in alternate earth.

“The computer age arrives a century early with Babbage's perfection of his 'analytical engine'.”
from the catalogue

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

series12 books1962

completed

Adventure, adventurous in tone.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

The Last BindingSeries

series3 books2021

Fantasy.

“The first book in the Last Binding trilogy, A MARVELLOUS LIGHT is a queer historical fantasy set in an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts and conspiracies.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Marvellous Light →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

includes The Infernal Devices, Magnus Bane, The Dark Artifices, The Last Hours, The Eldest Curses, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

Kate and Cecelia UniverseSeries

series4 books1988

Fantasy.

“Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.”
from the catalogue

Start with Sorcery and Cecelia: An Epistolary Fantasy →

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