Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe163 books1923

Fantasy.

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

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Fantasy and epic fantasy, reflective in tone.

“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.”
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Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

Apprentice AdeptSeries

series7 books1980

Science fantasy, set in parallel universe and far future.

“Phaze is a lush planet of magic, where Proton is a barren mining planet of science.”
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Start with Split Infinity →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, High Druid of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The First Druids of Shannara, Paladins of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara, The Genesis of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Canticle, Elantris, Lumar, First of the Sun, Cosmere non-canon, Warbreaker

KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

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