Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe84 books1983

Fantasy, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

“Death speaks IN SMALL CAPITALS and rides a horse called Binky.”
from the catalogue

includes Discworld omnibuses, Discworld - Young Sam's books, Discworld Reference, Discworld Plays, Discworld Screenplays

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

Santa ClausSeries

series3 books1902

completed

Fantasy.

Start with The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus →

Kathasaritsagara (Salman Rushdie)Series

series2 books1990

Adventurous in tone, about quests and coming of age.

Start with Haroun and the Sea of Stories →

Fly by NightSeries

series2 books2005

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“Frances Hardinge's Fly by Night follows Mosca Mye, a girl who flees her village with a foul-mouthed pet goose and a con man in tow, into a city fractured by censorship, guild rivalries, and warring religious factions.”
from the catalogue

Start with Fly by Night →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

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