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series2 books1969

completed

Eerie in tone, about quests.

“The Face in the Frost, John Bellairs's only adult fantasy novel, follows two aging wizards, Prospero and Roger Bacon, as they track down a rising magical evil that has started to unravel the world around them.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Face in the Frost →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone.

“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

The ScholomanceSeries

series3 books2020

Tense in tone, about magic schools and survival.

Start with A Deadly Education →

SekenreSeries

series15 books1994

Dark fantasy.

Start with On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead →

DragonlanceUniverse

universe436 books1984

Epic fantasy.

“The gods have kept their silence over Krynn for three hundred years, and the world has learned to make do without them: the dragons are a nursery tale, the old clerics gone, faith worn down to superstition.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight →

includes Dragonlance: Legends Trilogy, Dragonlance: Raistlin Chronicles, Dragonlance: The Dark Disciple Trilogy, Dragonlance: Trinistyr Trilogy, Dragonlance: Tales I, Dragonlance: Classics, Dragonlance: Villains, Dragonlance: The Age of Mortals

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

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