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universe100 books1912

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
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Start with Tarzan of the Apes →

includes Tarzan, The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, The Tarzan Trilogy, Tarzan and the Martian Legion, Tarzan's Africa / Opar / Khokarsa

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

series12 books1962

completed

Set in 19th century.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
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Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Fantasy, about coming of age, 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.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes The Book of Dust, His Dark Materials

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Science fiction and alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)Series

series26 books1991

Historical fantasy.

“Initially set around the time of the Second World War, it focuses on nurse Claire Beauchamp, who travels through time to 18th-century Scotland, where she finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser.”
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Start with Outlander →

Duke de RichleauSeries

series4 books1933

completed

Thriller & suspense.

Start with The Forbidden Territory →

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