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The Dark Is RisingSeries
series5 books1965
Mythic fantasy, set in british isles.
“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue
Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →
The Legendborn CycleSeries
series3 books2020
Tense in tone, set in north america.
“Tracy Deonn's Legendborn Cycle follows Bree Matthews, a Black teenager who enrolls in an early-college program and stumbles into a secret society descended from Arthurian legend operating alongside her North Carolina campus.”
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Start with Legendborn →
Knights of the Borrowed DarkSeries
series3 books2016
About monster hunting, set in british isles.
“Denizen Hardwick lost both his parents at an early age.”
from the catalogue
Start with Knights of the Borrowed Dark →
Modern Tale of FaerieSeries
series4 books2002
About fae.
Start with Tithe →
Fionavar UniverseSeries
series5 books1984
Epic fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world.
“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
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Start with The Summer Tree →
AlderleySeries
series4 books1960
Mythic fantasy, about quests, set in british isles.
“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →