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Alan Garnerstandalone novel1965

Portal fantasy, eerie in tone, about quests, set in british isles.

“Set primarily in modern Manchester, it features four English children who enter a fantasy world, fulfill a quest there, and return to find that the enemy has followed them into our world.”
from the catalogue

The ScholomanceSeries

series3 books2020

Dark fantasy, about survival and wizards.

Start with A Deadly Education →

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 Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

series11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with Sabriel →

Underland ChroniclesSeries

series5 books2003

Epic fantasy, about war, set in underground & caves.

“The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats.”
from the catalogue

Start with Gregor the Overlander →

The Half Bad TrilogySeries

series4 books2014

Dark in tone, about witches.

“Sally Green's Half Bad is set in a modern Britain where witches live alongside ordinary humans, split between a persecuted Black witch minority and a dominant White witch majority.”
from the catalogue

Start with Half Bad →

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