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Just For You!-Alternate world fantasy

Readers who enjoy expanding their imagination and traveling with their minds into alternative realities may enjoy these picks. This list was created by Jefferson County Public Library staff. Copy and paste this web address to request a list of your own: https://jeffcolibrary.org/just-for-you.

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  • The Way of Kings is the first book of the Stormlight Archive series. It follows four main characters, through a journey on a planet called Roshar that is rocky and rugged and politics and warfare are defined the possesion of the greatest armies,…
    Book, 2010New York : Tor Fantasy, 2010. — FICTION SANDERSON
  • Terry Pratchett had no idea when he wrote the Color of magic that he was introducing us to a strange, magical world that would draw us in for almost 40 stories. The flat world, populated by wizards, dwarfs and trolls, replete with dragons and…
    Book, 2005New York : Harper, 2005, c1983. — FICTION PRATCHETT
  • As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of…
    Book, 2010New York : Plume, [2010], c2009 — FICTION GROSSMAN
  • The most developed world of any fantasy worlds (OK, except Tolkien's Middle Earth) with the most complex plot of any fantasy - bar none. Robert Jordan gives us an old school fantasy feel with lots of intense descriptions, majestic journeys,…
    Book, 1990New York : T. Doherty Associates, 1990. — FICTION JORDAN
  • The Broken Earth trilogy is set on a massive continent called the Stillness, in a far-future Earth wracked with periodic disasters known as Seasons. These Seasons aren’t just bad storms: they’re massive, apocalyptic events that last for generations,…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Orbit, 2015. — FICTION JEMISIN