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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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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    includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings

  • Cover of Narnia Universe
    NarniaUniverse

    universe · 38 books · 1950

    Portal fantasy.

    “Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe →

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    includes Narnia, Narnia Solo Adventures

  • Cover of Watership Down
    Watership DownSeries

    series · 21 books · 1972

    completed

    About survival, set in countryside & village and our world.

    “Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Watership Down →

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  • Cover of Cosmere
    CosmereUniverse

    universe · 54 books · 2005

    Epic fantasy.

    “Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Final Empire →

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    includes Lumar, The Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, Canticle, Elantris, First of the Sun, Cosmere non-canon, Warbreaker

  • Cover of Enchanted Pilgrimage
    Enchanted PilgrimageNovel

    Clifford D. Simak · standalone novel · 1975

    Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

    “A scholar at a remote university stumbles onto a manuscript that hints at forgotten secrets buried in the Wasteland, a blighted region where magic and monsters still linger at the edge of an otherwise rational world.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of The Legend of Eli Monpress
    The Legend of Eli MonpressSeries

    series · 6 books · 2010

    About con artists.

    “Rachel Aaron's Legend of Eli Monpress follows Eli, a wizard and self-proclaimed greatest thief of his age, who teams up with a swordsman wielding a sentient magical blade and a shadow-stepping demon to pull off escalating heists.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Spirit's Oath →

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