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universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes Word and the Void, The Genesis of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, The First Druids of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara

KarouSeries

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

includes Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Magnus Bane, The Eldest Curses, The Dark Artifices, The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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 The Book of Dust, His Dark Materials

Dark Heavens milieuSeries

series13 books2006

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

Start with White Tiger →

Crescent City (Sarah J. Maas)Series

series3 books2020

Romance.

“Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone.”
from the catalogue

Start with House of Earth and Blood →

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