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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
The Crescent Moon KingdomsSeries
series1 book2012
Epic fantasy, set in desert.
“A handful of reluctant heroes must uncover the truth behind the killings before the kingdom tears itself apart.”
from the catalogue
Start with Throne of the Crescent Moon →
PusadianSeries
series9 books1951
completed
Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.
“The Pusadian series is a sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the early 1950s and written under the influence of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Eye of Tandyla →
Hyborian AgeUniverse
universe242 books1929
Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.
“Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”
from the catalogue
Start with Conan the Victorious →
includes Conan Universe, Kull of Valusia
The Princess and the GoblinSeries
series2 books1871
completed
About coming of age.
“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Princess and the Goblin →
Brak the BarbarianSeries
series16 books1963
completed
Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.
“John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”
from the catalogue
Start with Brak the Barbarian →