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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 665,851 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.49 — 966,085 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,622,428 ratings — published 1965
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,148,554 ratings — published 2015
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 332,372 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,079,484 ratings — published 2007
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 276,983 ratings — published 2019
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 429,753 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,729,176 ratings — published 1996
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,141,747 ratings — published 1954
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,445,890 ratings — published 1937
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.57 — 766,809 ratings — published 2016
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,102,927 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,382,875 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 484,856 ratings — published 2014
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 339,986 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,615,824 ratings — published 1995
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 153,727 ratings — published 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 359,966 ratings — published 1968
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.38 — 650,552 ratings — published 2007
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 181,996 ratings — published 2019
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,513 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,170,816 ratings — published 2016
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,385,331 ratings — published 2012
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 761,944 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,121,566 ratings — published 1954
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 587,659 ratings — published 2008
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,708 ratings — published 2013
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 334,769 ratings — published 1977
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 619,081 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,881,519 ratings — published 2008
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,491,107 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.21 — 463,152 ratings — published 2020
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 476,929 ratings — published 2018
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,037,711 ratings — published 1955
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 184,380 ratings — published 2014
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 193,997 ratings — published 2017
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,441 ratings — published 2014
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,296,850 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.87 — 254,768 ratings — published 2004
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.32 — 281,447 ratings — published 2023
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,076,490 ratings — published 2018
Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,777 ratings — published 2018
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 135,087 ratings — published 2017
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 195,509 ratings — published 2016
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 234,594 ratings — published 2016
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.80 — 682,593 ratings — published 2013
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,173,305 ratings — published 2015
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 591,558 ratings — published 1990
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,101,028 ratings — published 2007
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“His lips met mine and I burn.”
― A Deal with the Elf King
― A Deal with the Elf King
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.”
― Moonlight Brigade
― Moonlight Brigade
