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KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

series5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Summer Tree →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

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

The Midnight WorldSeries

series2 books2020

About second chance and grief and loss.

“In particular, they frequently wonder how different things might have been had they made other choices at pivotal moments in their lives.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Midnight Library →

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

FlukeNovel

James Herbertstandalone novel1977

Sad in tone, about reincarnation and grief and loss.

“A dog named Fluke is barely more than a puppy when fragments of a life that isn't his own surface in his mind -- memories of a wife, a daughter, a job, an entire human existence he can't reconcile with the body he's now living in.”
from the catalogue

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