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series21 books1972

completed

About survival and quests, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue

Start with Watership Down →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

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

Mercy ThompsonUniverse

universe45 books2006

About werewolves, set in north america.

“Patricia Briggs builds this world across two interlocking series.”
from the catalogue

Start with Alpha and Omega →

includes Alpha and Omega

Fionavar UniverseSeries

series5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Summer Tree →

KarouSeries

series4 books2011

Set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

Five Children UniverseSeries

series27 books1902

completed

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue

Start with Five Children and It →

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