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universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

All SoulsSeries

series5 books2011

Historical fantasy, about vampires, set in europe.

Start with A Discovery of Witches →

The Midnight WorldSeries

series2 books2020

About second chance and grief and loss.

“In particular, they frequently wonder how different things might have been had they made other choices at pivotal moments in their lives.”
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Start with The Midnight Library →

Five Children UniverseSeries

series27 books1902

completed

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
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Start with Five Children and It →

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

series15 books1976

completed

Horror and gothic, dark in tone, about vampires.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
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Start with Interview with the Vampire →

FlukeNovel

James Herbertstandalone novel1977

Sad in tone, about reincarnation and grief and loss.

“A dog named Fluke is barely more than a puppy when fragments of a life that isn't his own surface in his mind -- memories of a wife, a daughter, a job, an entire human existence he can't reconcile with the body he's now living in.”
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