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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

GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Gothic, dark in tone.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue

Start with Titus Groan →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes The Book of Dust, His Dark Materials

The Advent TrilogySeries

series3 books2012

Set in british isles and contemporary.

“Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight.”
from the catalogue

Start with Advent →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, 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

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

series11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with Sabriel →

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