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series27 books1902

completed

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
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Start with Five Children and It →

Faerie WarsSeries

series5 books2003

completed

Portal fantasy, about fae, set in fairyland.

“As of 2011, there are five books in the ongoing series.”
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Start with Faerie Wars →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

series5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
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Start with The Summer Tree →

KarouSeries

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

FootfallNovel

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1985

Science fiction and alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens.

“When aliens travel to Earth from Alpha Centauri, differences between alien and human psychology result in an unprovoked invasion, and the resulting resistance results in the aliens' use of a devastating weapon.”
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Watership DownSeries

series21 books1972

completed

About survival and quests, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
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Start with Watership Down →

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