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  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    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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    series · 16 books · 1963

    completed

    Fantasy and sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

    “John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”

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    Start with Brak the Barbarian →

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    series · 2 books · 1871

    completed

    About coming of age.

    “Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”

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    Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

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    universe · 242 books · 1929

    Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

    “Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”

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    Start with Conan the Victorious →

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    RedwallUniverse

    universe · 32 books · 1986

    “Ring the Joseph Bell and lay the long tables, for a tale is starting.”

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    Start with Redwall →

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    DilvishSeries

    series · 13 books · 1965

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    Fantasy and sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

    “Centuries ago, the half-elf warrior Dilvish tried to stop a dark sorcerer named Jelerak from completing a terrible ritual, and paid for it by being turned to stone and having his soul cast into Hell.”

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    Start with Passage to Dilfar →

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