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series3 books1978

Set in secondary world.

“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue

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

Cerulean ChroniclesSeries

series2 books2020

Cozy fantasy, hopeful in tone, about found family.

“Somewhere Beyond the Sea shifts to a new protagonist connected to the same island and its found family.”
from the catalogue

Start with The House in the Cerulean Sea →

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

series4 books2015

Set in secondary world.

“The two books share no characters or setting, only Novik's method of building a novel around one inherited folk tale.”
from the catalogue

Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

HeartlessNovel

Marissa Meyerstandalone novel2016

About forbidden love.

“Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.”
from the catalogue

KarouSeries

series4 books2011

Set in secondary world.

“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 →

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