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Tunnels / Circle in the SpiralSeries
series6 books2005
Fantasy and adventure, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary and underground & caves.
“Will and his friend Chester flee The Colony and set out to find Will's father, in the Deeps, a place even deeper in the Earth than The Colony.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Highfield Mole →
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
Underland ChroniclesSeries
series5 books2003
Epic fantasy, about war.
“The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gregor the Overlander →
Alchemist's SonSeries
series2 books2003
completed
Historical fantasy, about wizards.
“Sebastian reveals that his father's evil enemy, de Loudeac, has also arisen - and is determined to use the secrets of alchemy to create an humunculous, an artificial human made from dead matter, who can be commanded only by its creator.”
from the catalogue
Start with Doctor Illuminatus →
His Dark MaterialsUniverse
universe13 books1995
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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Northern Lights →
includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust
The Dark Is RisingSeries
series5 books1965
Mythic fantasy.
“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 →