Find your next SF/F read by mood

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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

Pigs Might FlyNovel

Emily Roddastandalone novel1986

Set in secondary world.

Simon SnowSeries

series3 books2015

Set in contemporary.

“Rainbow Rowell's Carry On follows Simon Snow through his final year at a magical school, where he is the 'Chosen One' expected to defeat a destructive force called the Humdrum threatening the World of Mages.”
from the catalogue

Start with Carry On →

The ScholomanceSeries

series3 books2020

About magic schools and survival, set in secondary world.

Start with A Deadly Education →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

includes Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Dark Artifices, The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours, The Eldest Curses, Magnus Bane, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

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