Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe38 books1950

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe →

includes Narnia, Narnia Solo Adventures

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.”
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

Three Hearts and Three LionsSeries

series3 books1961

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about transported to another world, set in secondary world.

Start with Three Hearts and Three Lions →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

series5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone, set in contemporary.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Summer Tree →

The Keys to the KingdomSeries

series7 books2003

Set in otherworld.

Start with Mister Monday →

The Quest of the Riddle-MasterSeries

series3 books1976

completed

Epic fantasy.

“Drawing on Celtic myth, the three books are prized for their lyrical prose and riddle-based magic, and are often cited among the best high fantasy of the 1970s.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Riddle-Master of Hed →

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