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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About political intrigue.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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 →

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

Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

series11 books1977

About quests.

Start with Lord Foul's Bane →

Thomas CaleSeries

series4 books2010

Dark fantasy, dark in tone, about faith and religion and war, set in secondary world.

“Paul Hoffman's Thomas Cale series opens with The Left Hand of God, following a boy raised by a brutal religious military order who escapes into a wider world he's been kept ignorant of.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Left Hand of God →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue

Start with Gardens of the Moon →

includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, Witness Trilogy, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy

The Second ApocalypseSeries

series11 books2003

Grimdark, challenging in tone, about political intrigue.

Start with The Darkness That Comes Before →

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