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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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Start with Six of Crows →

includes The Nikolai Duology, Six of Crows, The Grisha

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

About war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue

Start with Gardens of the Moon →

includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Witness Trilogy

The Circle of the WorldUniverse

universe29 books2006

Fantasy and grimdark, set in secondary world.

“What sets it apart is the honesty of its cynicism — close, sardonic points of view, gallows humour, and a flat refusal to let anyone stay clean.”
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Start with The Blade Itself →

includes The First Law Trilogy, The Age of Madness

Fallen Gods / GodkillerSeries

series3 books2023

About gods and war.

“Hannah Kaner's Godkiller follows Kissen, who lost her family to zealots of a fire god and now kills gods for a living, until she meets Skedi, a small god of white lies bound against his will to a young noble and hunted by assassins.”
from the catalogue

Start with Godkiller →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Warbreaker, Elantris, Canticle, Threnody, Komashi, First of the Sun

More like The Erebus Sequence