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EarthseaUniverse
universe19 books1964
Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.
“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
FolktalesSeries
series3 books1978
Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.
“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue
Start with Beauty →
Books of BayernSeries
series4 books2003
Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.
“Later volumes, including Enna Burning and River Secrets, follow other members of her found family through their own magical talents.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Goose Girl →
Seven Kingdoms / Graceling RealmSeries
series6 books2008
About coming of age and political intrigue.
“Kristin Cashore continued the world with the prequel-adjacent Fire, set in a neighboring land, and the sequel Bitterblue, then extended it further north with Winterkeep and Seasparrow.”
from the catalogue
Start with Graceling →
Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries
series4 books2015
Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, 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 →
Queen's ThiefSeries
series41 books1996
About political intrigue.
“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Thief →