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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue

Start with Six of Crows →

includes Six of Crows, The Nikolai Duology, The Grisha

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

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

Raven UniverseSeries

series13 books1978

Epic fantasy.

Start with Swordsmistress of Chaos →

The DevilsSeries

series1 book2025

Grimdark, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in mediterranean.

“The audiobook, read by Steven Pacey, won an AudioFile Earphones Award.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Devils →

The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)Series

series3 books2012

Science fiction, about psychic powers.

“Kwaymullina's debut novel, it tells the story of a nearly utopian world after an apocalypse, where some people have begun to have magical abilities, and are persecuted and detained for it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf →

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