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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.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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

The Sea of TrollsSeries

series3 books2004

Adventurous in tone, about quests and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Nancy Farmer's trilogy, continuing through The Land of the Silver Apples and The Islands of the Blessed, sends Jack further into Norse myth, eventually as far as the realm of the giants, Jötunheimr.”
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Start with The Sea of Trolls →

American GodsSeries

series10 books1999

Set in contemporary and our world.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
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Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

The Dark Star TrilogySeries

series2 books2019

About political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy opens with Black Leopard, Red Wolf, in which a mercenary tracker is hired to find a missing boy and is drawn into a war between kingdoms across a continent built from African history and mythology.”
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Start with Black Leopard, Red Wolf →

MabinogiSeries

series4 books1936

completed

Mythic fantasy and fantasy, about gods.

“Walton's reinterpretation began in 1936 with what became Prince of Annwn, decades before the rest of the cycle followed; all four were eventually gathered together as one series.”
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Start with Prince of Annwn →

The Broken SwordNovel

Poul Andersonstandalone novel1954

Epic fantasy, about curses, set in secondary world and medieval.

“A revised edition was issued by Ballantine Books in January 1971 as the twenty-fourth volume of their Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.”
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