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  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    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 →

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    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

  • Cover of Shannara
    ShannaraUniverse

    universe · 50 books · 1977

    Epic fantasy.

    “Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Imaginary Friends →

    similar bysecondary worldfantasy+1 more

    includes The Defenders of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, High Druid of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, Word and the Void, Heritage of Shannara, The First Druids of Shannara

  • Cover of Fionavar Universe
    Fionavar UniverseSeries

    series · 5 books · 1984

    Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, emotional in tone, set in contemporary.

    “Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Summer Tree →

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  • Cover of Cosmere
    CosmereUniverse

    universe · 54 books · 2005

    Epic fantasy.

    “Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Final Empire →

    similar bysecondary worldfantasy+1 more

    includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Canticle, Elantris, Lumar, First of the Sun, Cosmere non-canon, Warbreaker

  • Cover of Sword of Truth
    Sword of TruthUniverse

    universe · 27 books · 1994

    Epic fantasy.

    “Truth is a blade, and it cuts the hand that grips it carelessly.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Wizard's First Rule →

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    includes Richard and Kahlan, The Nicci Chronicles, The Legend of Magda Searus

  • Cover of Three Hearts and Three Lions
    Three Hearts and Three LionsSeries

    series · 3 books · 1961

    About transported to another world.

    Start with Three Hearts and Three Lions →

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