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GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
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Start with Titus Groan →

The House on the BorderlandNovel

William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908

Horror and weird fiction, eerie in tone, set in otherworld.

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The History of Middle Earth, The Hobbit, The Fall of Gondolin, The Lord of the Rings, The History of the Lord of the Rings

HeartlessNovel

Marissa Meyerstandalone novel2016

Fairy tale retelling, emotional in tone, about forbidden love.

“Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.”
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Nedra BrysstainSeries

series2 books2018

“Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old alchemy student Nedra turns to dark magic when a deadly plague sweeps through her homeland leaving her new friend, Grey, to pull her from the darkness.”
from the catalogue

Start with Give the Dark My Love →

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Weird fiction, set in big city.

“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
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Start with City of Saints and Madmen →

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