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KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

FolktalesSeries

series3 books1978

Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

Start with Beauty →

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

series4 books2015

Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The two books share no characters or setting, only Novik's method of building a novel around one inherited folk tale.”
from the catalogue

Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

The Last DescendantsSeries

series3 books2008

Fantasy, about family secrets and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“The first book, The Eyes of a King, became the first part of the series The Last Descendants.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Eyes of a King →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“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.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

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