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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.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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

The Sea of TrollsSeries

series3 books2004

Adventurous in tone, about quests and coming of age.

“Nancy Farmer's trilogy, continuing through The Land of the Silver Apples and The Islands of the Blessed, sends Jack further into Norse myth, eventually as far as the realm of the giants, Jötunheimr.”
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Start with The Sea of Trolls →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war.

“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, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Witness Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy

The Dark Star TrilogySeries

series2 books2019

About political intrigue.

“Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy opens with Black Leopard, Red Wolf, in which a mercenary tracker is hired to find a missing boy and is drawn into a war between kingdoms across a continent built from African history and mythology.”
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Start with Black Leopard, Red Wolf →

The Broken SwordNovel

Poul Andersonstandalone novel1954

Epic fantasy, about curses and elves, set in medieval.

“A revised edition was issued by Ballantine Books in January 1971 as the twenty-fourth volume of their Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.”
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Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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Start with Elric of Melniboné →

includes Corum, The Elric Saga, Eternal Champion, Hawkmoon, Oswald Bastable, Warrior of Mars

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