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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 666,524 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.49 — 967,845 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,623,678 ratings — published 1965
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,149,648 ratings — published 2015
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 332,725 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,080,237 ratings — published 2007
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 277,370 ratings — published 2019
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 430,050 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,730,588 ratings — published 1996
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,144,110 ratings — published 1954
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,448,579 ratings — published 1937
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.57 — 767,433 ratings — published 2016
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,103,884 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,392,049 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 485,378 ratings — published 2014
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 340,260 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,616,431 ratings — published 1995
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 153,887 ratings — published 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 360,177 ratings — published 1968
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.38 — 651,623 ratings — published 2007
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 182,218 ratings — published 2019
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,635 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 — 3,176,537 ratings — published 2016
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,390,755 ratings — published 2012
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 765,107 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,122,571 ratings — published 1954
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 588,616 ratings — published 2008
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,783 ratings — published 2013
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 335,004 ratings — published 1977
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 619,438 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,890,195 ratings — published 2008
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,501,072 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.21 — 464,858 ratings — published 2020
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 478,180 ratings — published 2018
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,038,567 ratings — published 1955
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 184,557 ratings — published 2014
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,132 ratings — published 2017
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,500 ratings — published 2014
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,297,725 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.87 — 254,862 ratings — published 2004
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.32 — 282,142 ratings — published 2023
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,078,932 ratings — published 2018
Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,846 ratings — published 2018
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 135,146 ratings — published 2017
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 195,659 ratings — published 2016
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 234,752 ratings — published 2016
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.80 — 682,898 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 — 4,181,705 ratings — published 2015
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 591,961 ratings — published 1990
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,103,430 ratings — published 2007
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“He had walked with those who could crack the world like eggs.”
― Circe
― Circe
“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
