Series
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman & Nicholas Wright · 4 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 1995–2017
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
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- 1990s2
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- 2010s2
Shape
4 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 2 short stories
2 authors
reads like:fantasycoming of ageparallel universetimeless or unspecifiedadventurousyoung adult
Mood
Bright and intense: 71% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 8 works carry a tone
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- Lyra's Oxforddarkest
- Northern Lightsbrightest
- The Collectorscalmest
- The Subtle Knifemost intense