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  • Cover of Winterlands
    WinterlandsSeries

    series · 7 books · 1986

    About dragons.

    “Once there, they learn Gareth is the crown prince, acting against his father's wishes, and that the dragon Morkeleb the Black is only one thread in a web that includes a sorceress with a grip on the king.”

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    Start with Dragonsbane →

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  • Cover of Sun Wolf and Starhawk
    Sun Wolf and StarhawkSeries

    series · 7 books · 1984

    About wizards.

    “Sun Wolf's partnership with his lieutenant Starhawk carries across The Ladies of Mandrigyn, The Witches of Wenshar, and further volumes as both are drawn deeper into magic neither originally wanted.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Ladies of Mandrigyn →

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  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    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 →

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

  • Cover of Brak the Barbarian
    Brak the BarbarianSeries

    series · 16 books · 1963

    completed

    Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

    “John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Brak the Barbarian →

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    Hyborian AgeUniverse

    universe · 242 books · 1929

    Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

    “Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Conan the Victorious →

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    includes Conan Universe, Kull of Valusia

  • Cover of Corona
    CoronaUniverse

    universe · 19 books · 1997

    Epic fantasy.

    “Beneath the sacred gemstones of the Abellican Church — a ruby to loose fire, malachite to lift a body into the air, the soul-stone to slip free of it — a ranger raised by elves and the woman he loves stand against a waking demon.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Demon Awakens →

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    includes Demon Wars, Second Demon Wars Saga, Demon Wars Prequels / Saga of the First King, The Coven (R. A. Salvatore), The Buccaneers