Find your next SF/F read by mood

series8 books1983

About gods and immortality.

“WorldCat: Zane belongs to a world in which the scientific revolution has been followed by the revolution of magic, and he is thrust into the role of Death.”
from the catalogue

Start with On a Pale Horse →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

includes The Eldest Curses, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Magnus Bane, The Last Hours, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

Five Children UniverseSeries

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.”
from the catalogue

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Faerie Wars →

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