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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
RithmatistSeries
series1 book2013
About magic schools and coming of age.
Start with The Rithmatist →
Fairy Tale storiesSeries
series2 books1996
Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, about curses, set in secondary world.
Start with Firebird →
Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries
series4 books2021
Romantasy.
“Once Upon a Broken Heart and its sequels follow the fallout of that bargain across a fairy-tale-inflected world of curses and dangerous magic.”
from the catalogue
Start with Once Upon a Broken Heart →
BeastkeeperSeries
series2 books2015
Eerie in tone, about shapeshifters and family secrets.
Start with Beastkeeper →
FolktalesSeries
series3 books1978
Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.
“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue
Start with Beauty →