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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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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

Down the Long WindSeries

series3 books1980

About quests.

“Kingdom of Summer and In Winter's Shadow carry the story through the reign's high point and into the betrayals that end it.”
from the catalogue

Start with Hawk of May →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, set in secondary world.

“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

The Dark Is RisingSeries

series5 books1965

Set in contemporary.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue

Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

ChrestomanciSeries

series12 books1977

completed

Whimsical in tone, set in contemporary and parallel universe.

“Greenwillow Books published a US edition within the calendar year.”
from the catalogue

Start with Charmed Life →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

includes The Infernal Devices, Magnus Bane, The Last Hours, The Eldest Curses, The Dark Artifices, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

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