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universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

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

The Powder MageUniverse

universe19 books2013

Epic fantasy, tense in tone, about war and political intrigue.

“Load your powder, and pray your sorcery outruns their cannon.”
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Start with Promise of Blood →

includes The Powder Mage Trilogy, Gods of Blood and Powder

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Canticle, Lumar, Elantris, Cosmere non-canon, First of the Sun, Warbreaker

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings

HierarchySeries

series2 books2023

Epic fantasy, tense in tone, about political intrigue and class conflict.

“James Islington's Hierarchy series opens with The Will of the Many, set in the Catenan Republic, an empire built on 'Will' — citizens' personal strength and drive, ceded upward to those in power.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Will of the Many →

The Wind on FireSeries

series3 books2000

Epic fantasy, about quests.

Start with The Wind Singer →

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