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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about political intrigue.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

The Bridge KingdomSeries

series7 books2018

Tense in tone.

“The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy.”
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Start with The Bridge Kingdom →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

series4 books2015

Epic fantasy, tense in tone.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
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Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
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Start with Gardens of the Moon →

includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, Witness Trilogy

The Hurricane WarsSeries

series3 books2023

Epic fantasy and romantasy, tense in tone, about enemies to lovers.

“Across The Hurricane Wars, A Monsoon Rising, and This Shattered Tempest, the truce between the two leads is tested as old loyalties and new dangers collide.”
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Start with The Hurricane Wars →

The EmpyreanSeries

series4 books2023

Romantasy and epic fantasy, about dragons and magic schools.

“Rebecca Yarros's The Empyrean opens with Fourth Wing, following Violet Sorrengail as she's pushed into a brutal dragon-rider war college despite having trained for a different, less physically demanding path.”
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Start with Fourth Wing →

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