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The ScholomanceSeries
series3 books2020
Dark fantasy, about magic schools and wizards.
Start with A Deadly Education →
GrishaverseUniverse
universe19 books2012
Fantasy, set in secondary world.
“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue
Start with Six of Crows →
includes Six of Crows, The Nikolai Duology, The Grisha
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries
series11 books1995
Fantasy, set in secondary world.
Start with Sabriel →
An Ember in the AshesSeries
series4 books2015
Epic fantasy.
“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.”
from the catalogue
Start with An Ember in the Ashes →
Witches Steeped in GoldSeries
series2 books2021
Dark fantasy, about enemies to lovers and political intrigue.
Start with Witches Steeped in Gold →
EarthseaUniverse
universe19 books1964
Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.
“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →
includes Earthsea Cycle