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universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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Start with Elric of Melniboné →

includes Corum, The Elric Saga, Hawkmoon, Eternal Champion, Warrior of Mars, Oswald Bastable

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The History of Middle Earth, The Hobbit, The Fall of Gondolin, The Lord of the Rings, The History of the Lord of the Rings

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

About war.

“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, Witness Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy

Wars of VisSeries

series3 books1976

completed

Fantasy and epic fantasy, dark in tone, about gods, set in secondary world.

“The Storm Lord opens the trilogy, continued by Anackire and The White Serpent.”
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Start with The Storm Lord →

The Dark Star TrilogySeries

series2 books2019

Mythic fantasy, about political intrigue.

“Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy opens with Black Leopard, Red Wolf, in which a mercenary tracker is hired to find a missing boy and is drawn into a war between kingdoms across a continent built from African history and mythology.”
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Start with Black Leopard, Red Wolf →

Song of the Last KingdomSeries

series2 books2023

About colonialism.

“Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers.”
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Start with Song of Silver, Flame Like Night →

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