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universe163 books1923

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 →

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

Rowan HoodSeries

series5 books2001

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in medieval and british isles.

Start with Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest →

Watership DownSeries

series21 books1972

completed

About survival and quests, 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 →

Lockwood & Co.Series

series6 books2013

Ghost stories, about monster hunting and friendship, set in contemporary.

Start with The Screaming Staircase →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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

BorriblesSeries

series3 books1976

completed

Dark in tone, set in contemporary and big city.

“The three volumes in the trilogy are The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke, and The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Borribles →

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