Find your next SF/F read by mood

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

The Craft UniverseSeries

series9 books2012

About gods.

Start with Three Parts Dead →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

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

Raine BenaresSeries

series10 books2007

Fantasy.

“Raine Benares is a Sorceress Seeker of average ability until she comes into possession of an amulet that amplifies her powers-and her enemies.”
from the catalogue

Start with Magic Lost, Trouble Found →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes Word and the Void, Heritage of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, The Genesis of Shannara, Legends of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara

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