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- The Traitor Spy Trilogy
series3 books2010
part of Kyralia series
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Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer. She completed her third trilogy, The Traitor Spy trilogy, in August 2012 with The Traitor Queen. Subsequently, Canavan has written a series called Millennium's Rule, with a completely new setting consisting of multiple worlds which characters can cross between. Though originally planned as a trilogy, a fourth and final book in the Millennium's Rule series was published.
- The Green Bone Saga
series5 books2017
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Jade City opens Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga, following the Kaul family, leaders of one of two rival jade-dealing crime clans on the island nation of Kekon, where magic jade grants enhanced abilities to trained warriors and its trade underpins the whole social order. The series follows the Kaul siblings across decades as their clan's power is challenged from within and without, blending gangster-family drama with epic fantasy. It runs across three novels plus shorter companion works.
- The Scholomance
series3 books2020
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The Scholomance Trilogy is a series of three fantasy novels written by American author Naomi Novik. The books follow the adventures of Galadriel "El" Higgins during and after attending a dangerous and magical boarding school for wizards named after the magic school Scholomance from Romanian folklore.
- Metropolitan
series2 books1995
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Metropolitan is set on a world entirely covered by one interconnected city and enclosed by a Shield that provides light and heat while burning away anything that rises too high, leaving a planet with no day, night, or seasons. It follows Aiah, a refugee working for the Plasm Authority, who discovers a powerful reserve of the city's magical power source and shares it with Constantine, an exiled political operator with revolutionary ambitions for a new order. Walter Jon Williams continued the story in a direct sequel, City on Fire, two years later.
- Slayers of Old
Jim C. Hinesstandalone novel2025
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Slayers of Old is a 2025 fantasy novel by Jim C. Hines. The story follows a trio of retired magic users who run a bookshop as they try to stop an apocalypse. It received positive reviews from critics.
- Something More Than Night
Ian Tregillisstandalone novel2013
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"A Dashiell Hammett- and Raymond Chandler-inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas's vision of Heaven ... a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale, and the Voice of God"--
- Dirk Gently
series3 books1987
completed
part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Universe
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) introduces Douglas Adams's eccentric investigator, whose approach treats all events and objects as ultimately connected however implausibly, as a case involving time travel, a ghost, and a Cambridge murder tangles into one plot. Adams completed one further full novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), before his death; The Salmon of Doubt (2002) later collected his unfinished notes toward a third book alongside essays and other writing, rather than completing the story.
- Karou
series4 books2011
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a young-adult fantasy book series written by Laini Taylor and published by Hachette Book Group, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. It is a complete trilogy, Daughter of Smoke and Bone being published on 27 September 2011 in the United States; Days of Blood and Starlight on 6 November 2012 in the United States; and the third book Dreams of Gods and Monsters on April 1, 2014. The books have been published in a variety of different languages.
