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  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    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 →

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    series · 6 books · 2005

    Fantasy and adventure, adventurous in tone, set in underground & caves and contemporary.

    “Will and his friend Chester flee The Colony and set out to find Will's father, in the Deeps, a place even deeper in the Earth than The Colony.”

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    Start with The Highfield Mole →

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    Underland ChroniclesSeries

    series · 5 books · 2003

    Epic fantasy, about coming of age and war.

    “The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats.”

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    Start with Gregor the Overlander →

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    Watership DownSeries

    series · 21 books · 1972

    completed

    About survival and found family, set in countryside & village and our world.

    “Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”

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    Start with Watership Down →

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  • Cover of House of Secrets
    House of SecretsSeries

    series · 3 books · 2013

    Portal fantasy, about transported to another world.

    “Rights to the book were sold in 12 foreign territories.”

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    Start with House of Secrets →

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    Alchemist's SonSeries

    series · 2 books · 2003

    completed

    Historical fantasy, about wizards and coming of age, set in british isles.

    “Sebastian reveals that his father's evil enemy, de Loudeac, has also arisen - and is determined to use the secrets of alchemy to create an humunculous, an artificial human made from dead matter, who can be commanded only by its creator.”

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    Start with Doctor Illuminatus →

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