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The ScholomanceSeries
series3 books2020
Dark fantasy, about magic schools and wizards.
Start with A Deadly Education →
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 Canticle, Mistborn, Threnody, Warbreaker, Komashi, Lumar, Elantris, The Stormlight Archive
SoundlessNovel
Richelle Meadstandalone novel2015
About coming of age.
“For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village, where rocky terrain and frequent avalanches prevent residents from self-sustaining.”
from the catalogue
Dirty MagicNovel
Carol Hughesstandalone novel2006
Dark fantasy and portal fantasy, about transported to another world.
The Broken EarthSeries
series5 books2014
Science fantasy, about ecological collapse.
“N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is set on the Stillness, a single supercontinent wracked every few centuries by civilization-ending climate catastrophes called Fifth Seasons.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Fifth Season →
DarwathSeries
series7 books1982
Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.
“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Time of the Dark →