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  • Cover of An Ember in the Ashes
    An Ember in the AshesSeries

    series · 4 books · 2015

    Epic fantasy.

    “Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”

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    Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

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  • Cover of Malazan
    MalazanUniverse

    universe · 36 books · 1999

    Epic fantasy, about war.

    “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 →

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

  • Cover of Shannara
    ShannaraUniverse

    universe · 50 books · 1977

    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 →

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    includes Heritage of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, Word and the Void, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, Paladins of Shannara

  • Cover of Cosmere
    CosmereUniverse

    universe · 54 books · 2005

    Epic fantasy.

    “Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Final Empire →

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    includes Mistborn, Canticle, The Stormlight Archive, Threnody, Elantris, Warbreaker, Komashi, Lumar

  • Cover of The Lotus War
    The Lotus WarSeries

    series · 4 books · 2012

    Fantasy, dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world.

    “Land and sky have been poisoned by industrialization, the Lotus Guild oppresses the populace and the nation's Shogun is lost to his thirst for power.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Stormdancer →

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  • Cover of The Riftwar Universe
    The RiftwarUniverse

    universe · 44 books · 1982

    Epic fantasy.

    “On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Magician →

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    includes Kelewan Empire, Serpentwar Saga, Krondor's Sons, The Riftwar Legacy, Darkwar Saga, Midkemian Trilogy [UK] / Chaoswar Saga [US], Riftwar Saga, Demonwar Saga