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universe13 books1995

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 His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

AngelboundUniverse

universe31 books2013

“Purgatory settles its arguments the old-fashioned way: two souls, one arena, a fight to the death that decides where the wicked spend eternity.”
from the catalogue

Start with Angelbound →

includes Angelbound Origins, Angelbound Offspring, Angelbound Worlds, Angelbound Short Fiction, Xavier Trilogy

The Phantom TollboothNovel

Norton Justerstandalone novel1961

Portal fantasy, whimsical in tone, about quests and coming of age.

“A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.”
from the catalogue

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

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

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 →

Hobbs EndSeries

series3 books2013

Set in contemporary.

Start with Gabriel's Clock →

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