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series14 books2015

Tense and dark in tone, 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 →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

series4 books2015

Epic fantasy, tense in tone.

“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.”
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Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

The Well-Built City TrilogySeries

series4 books1997

Set in secondary world.

“The trilogy continues through Memoranda and The Beyond as Cley's certainties about the city and his own profession come apart.”
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Start with The Physiognomy →

Cinderella Is DeadNovel

Kalynn Bayronstandalone novel2020

Fairy tale retelling, hopeful in tone, about gender and society and race and racism.

The PledgeSeries

series3 books2011

Science fiction, tense in tone, about class conflict.

Start with The Pledge →

The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)Series

series3 books2012

Science fiction, tense in tone, about psychic powers and found family.

“Kwaymullina's debut novel, it tells the story of a nearly utopian world after an apocalypse, where some people have begun to have magical abilities, and are persecuted and detained for it.”
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Start with The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf →

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