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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,443,629 ratings — published 2023
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.66 — 661,595 ratings — published 2010
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,130,958 ratings — published 2015
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 64 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,616,681 ratings — published 1965
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.49 — 958,561 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,721,823 ratings — published 1996
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,332,396 ratings — published 1997
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.64 — 3,144,001 ratings — published 2016
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,144,143 ratings — published 2015
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,832,899 ratings — published 2008
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,433,140 ratings — published 1937
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 46 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.29 — 330,862 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,360,253 ratings — published 2012
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,654,542 ratings — published 2017
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as world-building)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,098,165 ratings — published 2012
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,528,734 ratings — published 2023
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,109,708 ratings — published 2020
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.76 — 481,718 ratings — published 2014
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,129,782 ratings — published 1954
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.17 — 275,497 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,806,393 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,461,677 ratings — published 1998
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,726,766 ratings — published 2013
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 34 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,089,665 ratings — published 2007
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.57 — 764,106 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,168,313 ratings — published 2000
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
by (shelved 32 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,377,366 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 32 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,774,034 ratings — published 2003
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,117,471 ratings — published 1954
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,076,116 ratings — published 2007
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.56 — 583,627 ratings — published 2008
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 30 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,042,324 ratings — published 2021
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.03 — 428,605 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.27 — 750,010 ratings — published 2014
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.19 — 589,759 ratings — published 1990
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,710,365 ratings — published 2018
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,531,633 ratings — published 2014
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 29 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,638,192 ratings — published 2005
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,124,715 ratings — published 2009
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.38 — 646,021 ratings — published 2007
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,016,875 ratings — published 1998
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,593,511 ratings — published 2025
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,034,006 ratings — published 1955
Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.61 — 351,730 ratings — published 2017
The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.27 — 733,457 ratings — published 2022
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.30 — 338,850 ratings — published 2006
Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.34 — 773,376 ratings — published 2024
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.59 — 185,729 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.21 — 457,100 ratings — published 2020
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
by (shelved 23 times as world-building)
avg rating 4.63 — 1,206,444 ratings — published 2016
“Even so, it was difficult to quantify what he was feeling. Or maybe hearing. Touching? Raziel finally settled on sensing, but none of the words he could put to the sensation felt right. It was a presence, that much he was sure of. He’d felt that type of thing from his grandfather when they practiced magic together and faintly from people further away. But this was different. Slower. His grandfather had, at the time, seemed to be something solid and unmovable as a cliff face, but compared with this, he was just a leaf in late fall, holding its shape but crumbling at the lightest touch.
It was, of course, the tree at his back that Raziel was sensing. Being struck by its awesome and awful enormity, the realization came to Raziel slowly. And, as he put a name to the presence in his mind, something changed. The smallest of ants, marching across unfamiliar terrain, looking up and seeing the great eye of the human whose arm was the continent on which it walked, might have felt something similar to what Raziel felt as the tree took notice of him.”
― Fate's Pawn
It was, of course, the tree at his back that Raziel was sensing. Being struck by its awesome and awful enormity, the realization came to Raziel slowly. And, as he put a name to the presence in his mind, something changed. The smallest of ants, marching across unfamiliar terrain, looking up and seeing the great eye of the human whose arm was the continent on which it walked, might have felt something similar to what Raziel felt as the tree took notice of him.”
― Fate's Pawn
“It's a new world we gotta build - founded on love, tempered by reason.”
― Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
― Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
