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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

DamarSeries

series6 books1982

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“Robin McKinley's Damar novels are set in a desert kingdom threatened by invasion from the north.”
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Start with The Hero and the Crown →

Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

series8 books1986

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.”
from the catalogue

Start with Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! →

Tales of the Flat EarthSeries

series14 books1978

completed

Dark in tone.

“The novels take inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights and are similarly structured as interconnected stories.”
from the catalogue

Start with Night's Master →

DarwathSeries

series7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Time of the Dark →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“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 Heritage of Shannara, Word and the Void, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, High Druid of Shannara, Legends of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara

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