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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, Canticle, Komashi, Elantris, Threnody, Lumar

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.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The History of Middle Earth, The Hobbit, The Fall of Gondolin, The Lord of the Rings, The History of the Lord of the Rings

The Powder MageUniverse

universe19 books2013

Epic fantasy, tense in tone, about war.

“Load your powder, and pray your sorcery outruns their cannon.”
from the catalogue

Start with Promise of Blood →

includes Gods of Blood and Powder, The Powder Mage Trilogy

TiganaNovel

Guy Gavriel Kaystandalone novel1990

Epic fantasy and historical fantasy, emotional in tone, about identity.

GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue

Start with Titus Groan →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

series4 books2015

Epic fantasy, tense in tone.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

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