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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, 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, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Witness Trilogy

DarwathSeries

series7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
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Start with The Time of the Dark →

The Prison HealerSeries

series3 books2021

Epic fantasy, about revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
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Start with The Prison Healer →

Nazhuret of Sordaling / Lens of the WorldSeries

series3 books1990

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“R. A. MacAvoy's trilogy continues through King of the Dead and Winter of the Wolf, following Nazhuret further into the politics of a court he was never meant to be part of.”
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Start with Lens of the World →

The ScholomanceSeries

series3 books2020

Dark fantasy, about magic schools and wizards.

Start with A Deadly Education →

The Broken EarthSeries

series5 books2014

Science fantasy, about ecological collapse.

“N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is set on the Stillness, a single supercontinent wracked every few centuries by civilization-ending climate catastrophes called Fifth Seasons.”
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Start with The Fifth Season →

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