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World of Ice and FireUniverse
universe19 books1980
Epic fantasy, about war.
“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History
TiganaNovel
Guy Gavriel Kaystandalone novel1990
Epic fantasy and historical fantasy, emotional in tone, about identity.
MalazanUniverse
universe36 books1999
Epic fantasy, 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, Path to Ascendancy, Witness Trilogy
Red QueenSeries
series14 books2015
Dystopia, about class conflict.
“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
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Start with Queen Song →
The Poppy WarSeries
series4 books2018
Grimdark and epic fantasy, about war.
“The Poppy War follows Rin, a war orphan who tests into an elite military academy and discovers a talent for shamanic power tied to a pantheon of vengeful gods.”
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Start with The Poppy War →
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 →