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- Prison Camp
series3 books2020
part of Black Dagger
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Prison Camp is a three-book arc within J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood, the long-running paranormal romance series about vampire warriors defending their race against soulless enemies called lessers. The Jackal, The Wolf, and The Viper follow different members of that same vampire society rather than opening a new setting. It sits within a Brotherhood franchise that has run continuously since 2005.
- The Immortals
series6 books1992
part of Tortall
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Tamora Pierce's Immortals quartet follows Daine, a young woman whose 'wild magic' lets her communicate with and shapeshift among animals, as she's drawn into the kingdom of Tortall's defense against immortal creatures -- griffins, dragons and darker things -- released back into the world after centuries sealed away. Beginning with Wild Magic, the four books pair Daine's personal coming-of-age with an escalating magical threat, and connect to Pierce's earlier Song of the Lioness quartet through several shared characters.
- Chronicles of the Cheysuli
series10 books1984
similar byshapeshifterssecondary worldfantasy
The Cheysuli are a clan of warriors who can shift into animal form at will, once trusted allies of the kings of Homana until a princess's elopement with a Cheysuli liege man triggers a war that leaves her people hunted exiles in their own land. Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli opens a generation later with Alix, daughter of that forbidden union, as she comes to terms with the shapechanging magic in her own blood and an ancient prophecy she can't escape. The series spans multiple generations of the same bloodline across its eight books.
- Earthsea Cycle
series18 books1964
completed
part of Earthsea
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The Earthsea Cycle, also known as Earthsea, is a series of high fantasy books written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1970), and The Farthest Shore (1972), the series was continued in Tehanu (1990), and Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind. In 2018, all the novels and short stories were published in a single volume, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, with artwork by Charles Vess.
- More Than Human
series1 book2016
similar byemotionalshapeshifterssecondary worldfantasyparanormal romance
- The Shape-Changer's Wife
Sharon Shinnstandalone novel1995
similar byemotionalshapeshifterssecondary worldfantasy
In a world where magic is passed down as a trace, young Aubrey sets out to fine the greatest master of all. As he enters into the world of his new master, he meets his wife, Lilith. Set behind one of the most powerful men of them are, Aubrey is willing to risk everything to set her free.
- Tiger Burning Bright
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackeystandalone novel1995
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Abdicating when their realm is threatened by an all-conquering emperor, the three ruling women of Merina secretly plan a powerful counterattack that takes the form of deception, misdirection, and magic.
- Alpha and Omega
series15 books2007
part of Mercy Thompson
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Alpha and Omega follows Anna Latham, a rare and instinctively calming "Omega" werewolf rescued from an abusive pack, and Charles Cornick, the enforcer who polices North America's werewolves on his father's behalf, as their partnership becomes both a working relationship and a slow-building romance. Patricia Briggs runs the series alongside her Mercy Thompson books in the same shared world — the opening novella overlaps the events of Mercy's first book, Moon Called — before Cry Wolf and its sequels branch into their own cases.
- The Tears of Artamon
series4 books2003
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The Tears of Artamon is Sarah Ash's epic fantasy tetralogy: Lord of Snow and Shadows (2003), Prisoner of Ironsea Tower, Children of the Serpent Gate and The Arkhel Conundrum. It follows a young ruler cursed with a dragon-warrior's nature, caught between rival kingdoms and an ancient, malevolent bloodline he is bound to. The series follows one continuous royal conflict across its four volumes.
- The Kiesha'ra
series5 books2003
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The Kiesha'ra Series is a set of five fantasy novels written by American young adult author Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, which focus on several races of shapeshifters, including the avians, the serpiente, and the shm'Ahnmik. The series includes the following novels: Hawksong (2003), Snakecharm (2004), Falcondance (2005), Wolfcry (2006), and Wyvernhail (2007).
- The Immortal Brothers
series4 books2015
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Jacquelyn Frank's The Immortal Brothers is a paranormal romance quartet -- Cursed by Fire, Cursed by Ice, Bound by Sin, and Bound in Darkness -- all published by Ballantine Books in 2015, following different brothers across linked romantic storylines.
- A Song of Ice and Fire
series14 books1996
part of World of Ice and Fire
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A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of high fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the first volume, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and published it in 1996. Martin, who originally envisioned the series as a trilogy, has released five out of seven planned volumes. The most recent entry in the series, A Dance with Dragons, was published in 2011. Since then, Martin has been working on the sixth novel, titled The Winds of Winter. A seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, is planned to follow.
- Malazan Book of the Fallen
series20 books1999
part of Malazan
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The Malazan Book of the Fallen is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the Canadian author Steven Erikson. The series, published by Bantam Books in the U.K. and Tor Books in the U.S., consists of ten volumes, beginning with Gardens of the Moon (1999) and concluding with The Crippled God (2011). Erikson's series presents the narratives of a large cast of characters spanning thousands of years across multiple continents.
- Cosmere
universe54 books2005
Start hereThe Final Empire · Start here
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Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not. A god shattered into sixteen Shards of raw creative power, and those who seized them carried their fragments across the void to seed new planets, new peoples, new ways of working the impossible. The Cosmere is the one universe those Shards made: a scattering of worlds that seem, at first, to share nothing but a sky, until you notice the same law running quietly beneath each of them, and the same silent traveler passing through their margins. Every world keeps its own book and its own magic. On Scadrial, the Mistborn cycle burns metals into power: a self-contained trilogy of thieves and tyranny, followed by a second era that drags the same world into gunslinging early industry. On storm-battered Roshar, The Stormlight Archive raises its vast, ongoing epic around knights, spren, and oaths spoken aloud. Elsewhere stand the shorter keystones: Elantris, a city of fallen gods; Warbreaker, a tale of returned dead and living color; White Sand, told in graphic-novel form under the twin suns of Taldain. Threaded between them run the novellas, from Tress of the Emerald Sea and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter to The Sunlit Man and the pieces gathered in Arcanum Unbounded, where the hidden connections surface most plainly. All of it is the design of one hand, Brandon Sanderson, working a single pattern across two decades. What sets this universe apart is its faith in rules: magic here is a system, lawful and learnable, so discovery feels less like wonder handed down than like physics worked out. The cross-connections reward the patient reader, a symbol here, a name there, one immortal wanderer everywhere, but no book demands you have read another first. Newcomers do best entering through Mistborn: The Final Empire, the most self-contained doorway, or the standalone Elantris or Warbreaker; readers who prefer their epics vast can begin with The Way of Kings. The deeper links, and the novellas that expose them, wait for whenever you are ready to look.
