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universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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Start with City of Bones →

includes The Dark Artifices, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, The Eldest Curses, Magnus Bane, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours

Mercy ThompsonUniverse

universe45 books2006

Urban fantasy, about werewolves.

“Patricia Briggs builds this world across two interlocking series.”
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Start with Alpha and Omega →

includes Alpha and Omega

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

Black DaggerUniverse

universe52 books2005

Paranormal romance, about vampires.

“Come to Caldwell, New York, after dark, where the war has been running longer than the city has had a name.”
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Start with Dark Lover →

includes Black Dagger Brotherhood, Black Dagger Legacy, The Lair of the Wolven, Prison Camp

de Lint Master MythosUniverse

universe151 books1977

Urban fantasy.

“Newford you find by ear — a fiddle tune drifting up from a subway grate, a story a friend swears is true, the particular hush of an alley where the streetlight never quite reaches.”
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Start with Juniper Wiles →

includes Wildlings, Santo del Vado Viejo, AZ, Cerin Songweaver

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