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series4 books2015

Epic fantasy, tense in tone.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
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Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

Red QueenSeries

series14 books2015

Dystopia, tense in tone, about class conflict.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
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Start with Queen Song →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

The Lotus WarSeries

series4 books2012

Fantasy, dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world.

“Land and sky have been poisoned by industrialization, the Lotus Guild oppresses the populace and the nation's Shogun is lost to his thirst for power.”
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Start with Stormdancer →

TiganaNovel

Guy Gavriel Kaystandalone novel1990

Epic fantasy and historical fantasy, about identity and political intrigue.

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
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Start with Gardens of the Moon →

includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, Path to Ascendancy, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Witness Trilogy

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