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Song of the Last KingdomSeries

series2 books2023

Epic fantasy.

“Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers.”
from the catalogue

Start with Song of Silver, Flame Like Night →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

series11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with Sabriel →

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue

Start with Perdido Street Station →

Soldier SonSeries

series3 books2005

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about coming of age.

“Set in a new world unrelated to her previous trilogies, the Soldier Son trilogy follows the life of Nevare Burvelle, the second son of a newly elevated Lord of the Kingdom of Gernia.”
from the catalogue

Start with Shaman's Crossing →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue

Start with Six of Crows →

includes The Nikolai Duology, Six of Crows, The Grisha

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

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