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universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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includes Earthsea Cycle

LilithNovel

George MacDonaldstandalone novel1895

Eerie in tone, set in otherworld.

PiranesiNovel

Susanna Clarkestandalone novel2020

Mysterious in tone, about amnesia, set in otherworld.

“A man lives in a huge isolated labyrinthine building partially submerged in an ocean, together with another man and 13 skeletons, which is the only world he recalls.”
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GrimusNovel

Salman Rushdiestandalone novel1975

About immortality and quests, set in otherworld and islands.

“After drinking a mysterious fluid that grants him immortality, the young Axona man Flapping Eagle sets out on a centuries-long search for his vanished sister, drifting through identities and eras as the decades pass without aging him.”
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The Last UnicornSeries

series8 books1968

About quests, set in secondary world.

“The Last Unicorn is Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel about a unicorn who, believing herself the last of her kind, sets out to learn what became of the others.”
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The Forgotten Beasts of EldNovel

Patricia A. McKillipstandalone novel1974

About wizards and coming of age, set in secondary world.

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