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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,190 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 725,398 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,079,639 ratings — published 2006
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 354,136 ratings — published 2015
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,707,704 ratings — published 1965
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,212,903 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,118,971 ratings — published 2007
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,815,648 ratings — published 1996
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 300,702 ratings — published 2019
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,236,376 ratings — published 1954
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 359,455 ratings — published 2006
Eden 2:b (The Star Dreamers #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,619 ratings — published
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,298 ratings — published 2019
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 807,547 ratings — published 2016
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 446,451 ratings — published 2015
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,628,879 ratings — published 1937
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,152,423 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,803,831 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 531,336 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.15 — 549,607 ratings — published 2018
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 166,431 ratings — published 2017
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,646,402 ratings — published 1995
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 197,281 ratings — published 2019
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 376,638 ratings — published 1968
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,273,512 ratings — published 2008
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 109,664 ratings — published 2024
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 259,185 ratings — published 2018
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.20 — 445,649 ratings — published 1995
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,476,470 ratings — published 2016
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,673 ratings — published 2014
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 349,276 ratings — published 1977
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.20 — 576,090 ratings — published 2020
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 196,431 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,689,418 ratings — published 2012
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 977,823 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,179,484 ratings — published 1954
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 654,055 ratings — published 2008
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.37 — 725,518 ratings — published 2007
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.88 — 262,698 ratings — published 2004
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,954,054 ratings — published 2023
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,088,947 ratings — published 1955
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,367 ratings — published 2014
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 139,719 ratings — published 2017
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 207,009 ratings — published 2016
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 27,283 ratings — published 2015
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,337 ratings — published 2013
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 639,816 ratings — published 2011
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 613,430 ratings — published 1990
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 332,691 ratings — published 2023
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,250,174 ratings — published 2018
“From its central hub, Refugium’s five Straits spread like a broken star.
The city grew into itself, layer upon layer, each one soaked in fritzing neon and oilslicks. To the west: the Strait of Coal, steelworks exhaling black smog. To the north: the Strait of Silks, avenues hung with fairylights and chrome. To the south: the Strait of Stone, tin-jacketed tenements in umber sprawl. Eastside, the Strait of Gold—glittering wealth laid over bone-deep poverty. And wedged between, south by southeast: the Strait of Veils, cathedrals jigsawing into pagodas, misted waterways, monuments gone soft with rot.
At the center, the Pit yawned. Depth without end.”
― Raptoraem :
The city grew into itself, layer upon layer, each one soaked in fritzing neon and oilslicks. To the west: the Strait of Coal, steelworks exhaling black smog. To the north: the Strait of Silks, avenues hung with fairylights and chrome. To the south: the Strait of Stone, tin-jacketed tenements in umber sprawl. Eastside, the Strait of Gold—glittering wealth laid over bone-deep poverty. And wedged between, south by southeast: the Strait of Veils, cathedrals jigsawing into pagodas, misted waterways, monuments gone soft with rot.
At the center, the Pit yawned. Depth without end.”
― Raptoraem :
“The music stops as they walk out of the forest toward the smooth extra-terrestrial spacecraft glistening in the sun on the far side of the meadow. To Atom, the ship feels like a time machine. Steven and Sylvia watch them with deadpan stares as the three astronauts walk with the spectacle of eclectic, colorful characters on feathered horseback following. A breeze picks up and Atom glances back to see stoic faces with vibrant robes and dresses flowing in the wind.”
― Eden 2:b
― Eden 2:b
