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  • Cover of Discworld
    DiscworldUniverse

    universe · 84 books · 1983

    Fantasy, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

    “Death speaks IN SMALL CAPITALS and rides a horse called Binky.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Guards! Guards! →

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    includes Discworld omnibuses, Discworld Screenplays, Discworld - Young Sam's books, Discworld Reference, Discworld Plays

  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    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 →

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    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

  • Cover of Dying Earth
    Dying EarthSeries

    series · 27 books · 1950

    Fantasy, about wizards, set in secondary world.

    “Vance returned to the setting in 1965 and thereafter, making it the first book in the Dying Earth series.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Dying Earth →

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  • Cover of The Last Unicorn
    The Last UnicornSeries

    series · 8 books · 1968

    Bittersweet in tone, about quests.

    “The Last Unicorn is Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel about a unicorn who, believing herself the last of her kind, sets out to learn what became of the others.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Last Unicorn →

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  • Cover of Howl's Castle
    Howl's CastleSeries

    series · 3 books · 1986

    completed

    Adventurous in tone.

    Start with Howl's Moving Castle →

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  • Cover of Myth Adventures
    Myth AdventuresSeries

    series · 33 books · 1978

    Fantasy and humor, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

    “After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Another Fine Myth →

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