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series24 books1983

About coming of age.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
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Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

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

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

series15 books2007

About immortality.

“The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012.”
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Start with The Alchemyst →

Lewis BarnaveltSeries

series12 books1973

Eerie in tone, set in north america.

“Lewis Barnavelt is a lonely orphan who moves in with his uncle Jonathan, an amateur wizard, in a rambling old house that turns out to hide a doomsday clock built into its walls by a previous, malevolent owner.”
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Start with The House with a Clock in Its Walls →

MagidsSeries

series2 books1997

completed

Whimsical and mysterious in tone.

“Diana Wynne Jones's Magids series continues with The Merlin Conspiracy, following a different young magic-user into the same multiverse of worlds under the Magids' watch.”
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Start with Deep Secret →

The Dresden FilesSeries

series56 books2000

Urban fantasy, set in north america and big city.

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
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Start with Welcome to the Jungle →

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