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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,112 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 713,066 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,056,121 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,688,501 ratings — published 1965
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 349,941 ratings — published 2015
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,199,813 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,110,866 ratings — published 2007
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 295,555 ratings — published 2019
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 355,387 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,795,834 ratings — published 1996
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,219,128 ratings — published 1954
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 443,360 ratings — published 2015
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 799,053 ratings — published 2016
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,587,233 ratings — published 1937
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,142,451 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,713,393 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 521,796 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.15 — 535,434 ratings — published 2018
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,639,694 ratings — published 1995
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 163,607 ratings — published 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 373,083 ratings — published 1968
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.18 — 194,274 ratings — published 2019
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 256,371 ratings — published 2018
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.20 — 432,431 ratings — published 1995
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,083 ratings — published 2014
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,192,790 ratings — published 2008
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,411,962 ratings — published 2016
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,624,288 ratings — published 2012
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 346,191 ratings — published 1977
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 928,531 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,167,498 ratings — published 1954
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 639,997 ratings — published 2008
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.37 — 709,886 ratings — published 2007
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 100,925 ratings — published 2024
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.31 — 322,966 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.20 — 547,484 ratings — published 2020
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,078,218 ratings — published 1955
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,792 ratings — published 2014
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 138,831 ratings — published 2017
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,711 ratings — published 2015
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,281 ratings — published 2013
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 635,585 ratings — published 2011
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 608,955 ratings — published 1990
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.88 — 261,183 ratings — published 2004
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,862,266 ratings — published 2023
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,053 ratings — published 2019
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 200,902 ratings — published 2017
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,676 ratings — published 2016
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.80 — 698,186 ratings — published 2013
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,335,225 ratings — published 2011
“U-2200 is a heavily worn, approximately egg-shaped 1.07-meter-tall monolith of tenasserite limestone inhabited by Gua, a non-corporeal entity that claims to be the prehistoric Johorean god of forgetting how to ride a bicycle.
[...]
U-2200 claims to have dwelled within the stone since its carving, more than 5,000 years ago. Exactly what U-2200 did between that time and the invention of the first actual bicycle in the 19th century is a matter of some debate. Consensus among Organization academics is that U-2200 did nothing, and probably did not exist in its present form. U-2200, however, claims that the bicycle has been invented dozens of times by cultures in all parts of the globe over the course of the past 5,000 years, only for U-2200 to engulf, consume, and negate all human knowledge not only of the riding of bicycles but of the mechanism of the bicycle, before lapsing back into dormancy. It calls this “the Bicyclecycle.”
― There Is No Antimemetics Division
[...]
U-2200 claims to have dwelled within the stone since its carving, more than 5,000 years ago. Exactly what U-2200 did between that time and the invention of the first actual bicycle in the 19th century is a matter of some debate. Consensus among Organization academics is that U-2200 did nothing, and probably did not exist in its present form. U-2200, however, claims that the bicycle has been invented dozens of times by cultures in all parts of the globe over the course of the past 5,000 years, only for U-2200 to engulf, consume, and negate all human knowledge not only of the riding of bicycles but of the mechanism of the bicycle, before lapsing back into dormancy. It calls this “the Bicyclecycle.”
― There Is No Antimemetics Division
“They could be totally ignored by Earth without infringing on their lifestyle because of the vastness of the planet.”
― The Polymorph
― The Polymorph
