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series4 books2011

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.”
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

SeawardNovel

Susan Cooperstandalone novel1983

Portal fantasy, about quests and coming of age.

“What they do know are the tragedies that took their parents, then wrenched the two of them out of reality, into a strange and perilous world through which they must travel together, knowing only that they must reach the sea.”
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TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

About coming of age, set in secondary world.

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
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Start with Alanna: The First Adventure →

includes Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Beka Cooper / Provost's Dog, Protector of the Small, Daughter of the Lioness, The Numair Chronicles

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.”
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PiranesiNovel

Susanna Clarkestandalone novel2020

Literary & general, mysterious in tone, about amnesia and loneliness.

“A man lives in a huge isolated labyrinthine building partially submerged in an ocean, together with another man and 13 skeletons, which is the only world he recalls.”
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Books of BayernSeries

series4 books2003

About coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Later volumes, including Enna Burning and River Secrets, follow other members of her found family through their own magical talents.”
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Start with The Goose Girl →

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