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universe38 books1950

Set in secondary world.

“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

Fionavar UniverseSeries

series5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone, set in contemporary and secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Summer Tree →

The Looking Glass Wars UniverseSeries

series4 books2004

Adventurous in tone.

Start with The Looking Glass Wars →

AbaratSeries

series3 books2002

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in islands.

“The Books of Abarat are a series of young adult fantasy novels written and illustrated by English writer and visual artist Clive Barker.”
from the catalogue

Start with Abarat →

DarwathSeries

series7 books1982

Set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Time of the Dark →

The Wild MagicSeries

series3 books2018

Set in secondary world.

“Celine Kiernan's The Wild Magic trilogy opens with Begone the Raggedy Witches, a children's fantasy novel about witches, and continues across The Little Grey Girl and The Promise Witch.”
from the catalogue

Start with Begone the Raggedy Witches →

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