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  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    Fantasy, set in secondary world.

    “Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”

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    Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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    universe · 6 books · 1989

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

    “Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”

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    Start with The Diamond Throne →

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    universe · 50 books · 1977

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

    “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.”

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    Start with Imaginary Friends →

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

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    The RiftwarUniverse

    universe · 44 books · 1982

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

    “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.”

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    Start with Magician →

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    The Well at the World's EndNovel

    William Morris · standalone novel · 1896

    Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

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    Adrian Tchaikovsky · standalone novel · 2016

    Dark in tone, about prophecy.

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