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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

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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

DamarSeries

series6 books1982

About coming of age, set in secondary world.

“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 →

Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
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Start with Peter Pan →

includes Peter Pan, The Untold Stories of Neverland, Fairy Haven, Neverland, Disney's Peter Pan & Wendy, Disney Fairies, Hook's Revenge, Neverland (Heather Killough-Walden)

Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

series8 books1986

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.”
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Start with Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

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