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universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, 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.”
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Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

Mythago WoodSeries

series7 books1984

completed

Eerie in tone, set in contemporary.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
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Start with Mythago Wood →

The Raven KingSeries

series13 books1996

Historical fantasy, about fae, set in 19th century.

“Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reintroduces magic to an alternate nineteenth-century England, centering on the prickly rivalry between the two title magicians as they revive a lost English tradition.”
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Start with The Ladies of Grace Adieu →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

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

DeryniUniverse

universe44 books1970

Historical fantasy, tense in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“In the kingdom of Gwynedd, power is at once a sacrament and a heresy.”
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Start with Deryni Rising →

includes The Heirs of Saint Camber, The Childe Morgan, Chronicles of the Deryni, Legends of Saint Camber, The Histories of King Kelson

The Last UnicornSeries

series8 books1968

Bittersweet in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“The Last Unicorn is Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel about a unicorn who, believing herself the last of her kind, sets out to learn what became of the others.”
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Start with The Last Unicorn →

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