Find your next SF/F read by mood

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

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

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

The Extraordinaries (TJ Klune)Series

series3 books2020

Lighthearted in tone, about identity, set in big city.

“The Extraordinaries follows Nick Bell, a fanfiction-writing teenager with ADHD who is infatuated with his city's resident superhero, Shadow Star, and decides the only way to get noticed is to become extraordinary himself.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Extraordinaries →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Fantasy, 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

Please Don't Tell My ParentsSeries

series12 books2014

Superhero, set in contemporary.

Start with I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! →

KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

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