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series3 books2012

Dystopia, tense in tone, about survival and forbidden love.

“Set in a walled, post-collapse city ruled by rigid survival laws, it follows a young woman searching for her missing father against the city's authorities and the monstrous forces beyond its walls.”
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Start with Defiance →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

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

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

RailseaNovel

China Miévillestandalone novel2012

Steampunk and weird fiction, adventurous in tone.

The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)Series

series3 books2012

Tense in tone, about psychic powers and found family.

“Kwaymullina's debut novel, it tells the story of a nearly utopian world after an apocalypse, where some people have begun to have magical abilities, and are persecuted and detained for it.”
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Start with The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf →

The Bone World TrilogySeries

series3 books2007

Dark in tone, about survival.

Start with The Inferior →

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