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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse
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
The Copernicus LegacySeries
series6 books2014
Adventure, adventurous in tone, about quests and magical artifacts, set in contemporary.
“While a work of fiction, it does incorporate some facts about Copernicus's history.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Forbidden Stone →
Seven WondersSeries
series10 books2013
Fantasy and adventure, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in contemporary.
“Jack McKinley discovers a secret organization on a hidden island, and becomes the leader of a mission to retrieve seven lost magical orbs.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Colossus Rises →
The Dark Is RisingSeries
series5 books1965
Set in british isles.
“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue
Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →
Watership DownSeries
series21 books1972
completed
About survival and found family, 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 →
The SunbirdNovel
Wilbur Smithstandalone novel1972
Historical fiction, set in africa.