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universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“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

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Final Empire →

includes The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Komashi, Mistborn, Cosmere non-canon, Warbreaker, Canticle, Lumar

PaksenarrionUniverse

universe31 books1988

Epic fantasy.

“A sheepfarmer's daughter refuses the marriage her father arranged, walks off the farm with nothing but a good knife, and signs her name to a mercenary company's roll.”
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Start with Sheepfarmer's Daughter →

includes The Deed of Paksenarrion, The Legacy of Gird, Paladin's Legacy, Paksenarrion World Chronicles, Dragon's Paladin

The EmpyreanSeries

series4 books2023

Romantasy and epic fantasy, about dragons and enemies to lovers.

“Rebecca Yarros's The Empyrean opens with Fourth Wing, following Violet Sorrengail as she's pushed into a brutal dragon-rider war college despite having trained for a different, less physically demanding path.”
from the catalogue

Start with Fourth Wing →

Tairen SoulSeries

series6 books2007

Romantasy and epic fantasy, about forbidden love.

Start with Lord of the Fading Lands →

The Golden Key (Rawn)Series

series2 books1996

Set in secondary world.

Start with The Golden Key →

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