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

DragonlanceUniverse

universe436 books1984

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The gods have kept their silence over Krynn for three hundred years, and the world has learned to make do without them: the dragons are a nursery tale, the old clerics gone, faith worn down to superstition.”
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Start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight →

includes Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragonlance: Legends Trilogy, Dragonlance: Heroes, Dragonlance: Rise of Solamnia, Dragonlance: The Lost Chronicles Trilogy, Dragonlance: Elements, Dragonlance: The Elven Nations Trilogy, Dragonlance: The Age of Mortals

Forgotten RealmsUniverse

universe526 books1987

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Come in from the cold and mind the door — the wind off the Sword Coast has teeth.”
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Start with The Crystal Shard →

includes Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt, Forgotten Realms: Avatar, Forgotten Realms: The Twilight Giants Trilogy, Forgotten Realms: Moonshae, Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords, Forgotten Realms: The Sundering, Forgotten Realms: The Empires Trilogy, Forgotten Realms: The Druidhome Trilogy

PaksenarrionUniverse

universe31 books1988

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“A sheepfarmer's daughter refuses the marriage her father arranged, walks off the farm with nothing but a good knife, and signs her name to a mercenary company's roll.”
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Start with Sheepfarmer's Daughter →

includes The Deed of Paksenarrion, Paladin's Legacy, The Legacy of Gird, Paksenarrion World Chronicles, Dragon's Paladin

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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Start with The Final Empire →

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

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes Heritage of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Legends of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel

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