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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
RiyriaUniverse
universe14 books2008
Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about friendship, set in secondary world.
“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 Tainted Blood DuologySeries
series2 books2023
Tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution.
Start with Forged by Blood →
Queen's ThiefSeries
series41 books1996
Fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.
“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 →
GrishaverseUniverse
universe19 books2012
Fantasy, set in secondary world.
“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, The Nikolai Duology, Six of Crows
The RiftwarUniverse
universe44 books1982
Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.
“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue
Start with Magician →
includes Serpentwar Saga, Krondor's Sons, Legends of the Riftwar, The Riftwar Legacy, Midkemian Trilogy [UK] / Chaoswar Saga [US], Conclave of Shadows, Darkwar Saga, Riftwar Saga