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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About political intrigue.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

Throne of GlassSeries

series15 books2012

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“As the story progresses, Celaena forms unexpected bonds and uncovers a conspiracy amidst her adventures.”
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The Prison HealerSeries

series3 books2021

Tense in tone, about revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
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includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, Witness Trilogy

Legacy of OrishaSeries

series3 books2018

Epic fantasy and fantasy, about rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world.

“Tomi Adeyemi's Legacy of Orïsha trilogy opens with Children of Blood and Bone, following Zélie, a girl from a persecuted caste of former magic-users, on a quest to restore magic to a kingdom that outlawed and hunted her people.”
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An Ember in the AshesSeries

series4 books2015

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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