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series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

universe70 books2007

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

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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 Kendra ChroniclesSeries

series5 books2007

Fairy tale retelling, about witches, set in contemporary.

“Later books widen the cast to other characters from that story — Lindy, the witch Kendra herself — while staying inside the same fairy-tale-updated-to-Manhattan premise.”
from the catalogue

Start with Beastly →

The Wolves of Mercy FallsSeries

series4 books2009

Paranormal romance, about werewolves and forbidden love, set in contemporary.

“Set in the fictional town of Mercy Falls, Stiefvater has stated that the real town of Ely in Minnesota would be its closest neighbouring destination, with the two towns sharing a similar climate.”
from the catalogue

Start with Shiver →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

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