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series5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone, set in contemporary and secondary world.

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

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 →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, Threnody, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Warbreaker, Canticle, Komashi, Lumar

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes Word and the Void, The Genesis of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, The First Druids of Shannara, Legends of Shannara

Singapore ThreeSeries

series16 books1999

Mystery & detective.

Start with Nightside →

The Craft UniverseSeries

series9 books2012

About gods, set in secondary world.

Start with Three Parts Dead →

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