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Susan Cooperstandalone novel1983

Portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age and grief and loss.

“What they do know are the tragedies that took their parents, then wrenched the two of them out of reality, into a strange and perilous world through which they must travel together, knowing only that they must reach the sea.”
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ErithSeries

series4 books2001

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with The Ill-Made Mute →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, 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.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

Furthermore UniverseSeries

series2 books2016

Portal fantasy, about friendship and coming of age.

Start with Furthermore →

EarthseaUniverse

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

BirthgraveSeries

series3 books1975

completed

Dark in tone, about revenge and identity, set in secondary world.

“The person: a woman awakening from a deathlike sleep.”
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Start with The Birthgrave →

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