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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,429 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 680,932 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.49 — 994,857 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,641,576 ratings — published 1965
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,164,806 ratings — published 2015
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 337,942 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,090,005 ratings — published 2007
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 283,035 ratings — published 2019
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 345,047 ratings — published 2006
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,174,421 ratings — published 1954
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 434,332 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,750,272 ratings — published 1996
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,485,116 ratings — published 1937
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.57 — 776,832 ratings — published 2016
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,115,725 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,494,551 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 496,331 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 496,086 ratings — published 2018
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,623,569 ratings — published 1995
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.18 — 185,997 ratings — published 2019
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 156,489 ratings — published 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 364,018 ratings — published 1968
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.38 — 668,963 ratings — published 2007
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,291 ratings — published 2018
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 407,795 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 — 3,247,450 ratings — published 2016
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,456,781 ratings — published 2012
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,248 ratings — published 2014
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 812,200 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,136,720 ratings — published 1954
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 603,472 ratings — published 2008
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.21 — 490,272 ratings — published 2020
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 187,364 ratings — published 2014
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,764 ratings — published 2013
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 338,670 ratings — published 1977
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 624,704 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,986,645 ratings — published 2008
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,621,145 ratings — published 2023
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.32 — 295,153 ratings — published 2023
Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,863 ratings — published 2018
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,050,895 ratings — published 1955
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 196,250 ratings — published 2017
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 198,324 ratings — published 2016
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,605 ratings — published 2015
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.80 — 687,476 ratings — published 2013
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,309,147 ratings — published 2011
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 597,329 ratings — published 1990
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.87 — 256,569 ratings — published 2004
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 82,814 ratings — published 2024
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,115,719 ratings — published 2018
“A system reflects its maker.
Build carefully.
Your world will say
what you were afraid of.”
―
Build carefully.
Your world will say
what you were afraid of.”
―
“When power becomes purpose, the soul begins to vanish.”
― The Balance of Tora: A Battle Between Light and Darkness
― The Balance of Tora: A Battle Between Light and Darkness
