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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Lumar, First of the Sun, Canticle, Cosmere non-canon, Warbreaker

Gentleman Bastard SequenceSeries

series7 books2006

Fantasy, about con artists, set in big city.

“The Lies of Locke Lamora and its two sequels braid heist capers with flashbacks tracing how the gang was trained, escalating into a wider conflict involving crime lords and sorcerers.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Lies of Locke Lamora →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue

Start with Six of Crows →

includes The Grisha, Six of Crows, The Nikolai Duology

Queen's ThiefSeries

series41 books1996

Fantasy, about political intrigue.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Thief →

RiyriaUniverse

universe14 books2008

Fantasy, about friendship.

“Royce Melborn can pick any lock and end any life without troubling his pulse; Hadrian Blackwater is the finest blade in the kingdom and would rather sheathe it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Crown Conspiracy →

includes The Riyria Chronicles, Riyria Revelations

The Legend of Eli MonpressSeries

series6 books2010

Fantasy, about con artists.

“Rachel Aaron's Legend of Eli Monpress follows Eli, a wizard and self-proclaimed greatest thief of his age, who teams up with a swordsman wielding a sentient magical blade and a shadow-stepping demon to pull off escalating heists.”
from the catalogue

Start with Spirit's Oath →

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