Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe →

includes Narnia, Narnia Solo Adventures

Witch WorldUniverse

universe106 books1963

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Step through the Siege Perilous — the standing stone that answers only the hunted, those with nowhere left to run — and the fugitive is delivered not into death but into another world entirely.”
from the catalogue

Start with Witch World →

includes Estcarp, Witch World Stories, Witch World Secrets, High Hallack, Witch World Chronicles, Witch World: The Turning

Crimson SailsSeries

series3 books2023

About pirates and vampires, set in at sea and otherworld.

“Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger.”
from the catalogue

Start with Hunt on Dark Waters →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

series4 books2015

Fairy tale retelling.

“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 →

Unbound / The Nine WorldsSeries

series7 books2007

About shapeshifters.

“UNLEASHED FROM THE GATES OF HELLRisk Leidolf was a hellhound—a legendary, otherworldly creature who was both man and beast.”
from the catalogue

Start with Unbound →

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