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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,048 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 694,664 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,021,176 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,661,125 ratings — published 1965
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,178,683 ratings — published 2015
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 342,975 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,098,746 ratings — published 2007
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 288,104 ratings — published 2019
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 349,539 ratings — published 2006
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,193,237 ratings — published 1954
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 438,163 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,769,298 ratings — published 1996
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 785,779 ratings — published 2016
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,527,296 ratings — published 1937
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,126,344 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,582,752 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 507,176 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 512,919 ratings — published 2018
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 367,718 ratings — published 1968
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,630,010 ratings — published 1995
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.18 — 189,320 ratings — published 2019
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 159,316 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,069,513 ratings — published 2008
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 253,909 ratings — published 2018
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 416,788 ratings — published 1995
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,319,756 ratings — published 2016
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,532,539 ratings — published 2012
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,006 ratings — published 2014
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 859,597 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,149,764 ratings — published 1954
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 618,862 ratings — published 2008
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.38 — 686,510 ratings — published 2007
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.31 — 307,242 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.21 — 513,695 ratings — published 2020
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,062,431 ratings — published 1955
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,365 ratings — published 2014
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,714 ratings — published 2013
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 341,880 ratings — published 1977
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 629,323 ratings — published 2011
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 90,275 ratings — published 2024
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,722,005 ratings — published 2023
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 137,343 ratings — published 2017
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 198,250 ratings — published 2017
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 201,099 ratings — published 2016
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,168 ratings — published 2015
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.80 — 691,858 ratings — published 2013
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,320,029 ratings — published 2011
The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 602,164 ratings — published 1990
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.87 — 258,421 ratings — published 2004
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,154,666 ratings — published 2018
“Conflict is not two swords.
It is two people who are both right —
and the world that cannot hold them both.”
―
It is two people who are both right —
and the world that cannot hold them both.”
―
“The world was broken over eight hundred years ago, during The Reckoning. Now it is a time of darkness, a time of war, of blood and slaughter. It is a time of fire and dissolution.”
― The Bjornlinga Saga #1
― The Bjornlinga Saga #1
