Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

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

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

SpiderwickUniverse

universe17 books2003

“Holly Black writes and Tony DiTerlizzi draws this small, densely illustrated world across two linked cycles.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Field Guide →

includes Spiderwick Chronicles, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

The Dresden FilesSeries

series56 books2000

Urban fantasy, about wizards, set in big city.

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
from the catalogue

Start with Welcome to the Jungle →

Rose MadderNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1995

Horror, dark in tone, about gods.

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