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series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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Start with City of Bones →

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

Seven Kingdoms / Graceling RealmSeries

series6 books2008

About political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Kristin Cashore continued the world with the prequel-adjacent Fire, set in a neighboring land, and the sequel Bitterblue, then extended it further north with Winterkeep and Seasparrow.”
from the catalogue

Start with Graceling →

FolktalesSeries

series3 books1978

Fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.

“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
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Start with Beauty →

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