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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,168 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 724,968 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,078,904 ratings — published 2006
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 353,979 ratings — published 2015
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,707,097 ratings — published 1965
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,212,420 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,118,685 ratings — published 2007
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,814,971 ratings — published 1996
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 300,540 ratings — published 2019
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,235,768 ratings — published 1954
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 359,325 ratings — published 2006
Eden 2:b (The Star Dreamers #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,617 ratings — published
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,260 ratings — published 2019
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 807,258 ratings — published 2016
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 446,327 ratings — published 2015
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,627,518 ratings — published 1937
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,152,071 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,800,681 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 531,008 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.15 — 549,148 ratings — published 2018
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 166,335 ratings — published 2017
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,646,168 ratings — published 1995
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 197,159 ratings — published 2019
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 376,532 ratings — published 1968
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,271,037 ratings — published 2008
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 109,335 ratings — published 2024
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 259,094 ratings — published 2018
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.20 — 445,148 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 — 3,474,224 ratings — published 2016
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,647 ratings — published 2014
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 349,183 ratings — published 1977
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.20 — 575,051 ratings — published 2020
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 196,279 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,687,127 ratings — published 2012
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 976,252 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,179,110 ratings — published 1954
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 653,587 ratings — published 2008
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.37 — 724,987 ratings — published 2007
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.88 — 262,647 ratings — published 2004
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,951,134 ratings — published 2023
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,088,589 ratings — published 1955
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,297 ratings — published 2014
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 139,684 ratings — published 2017
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 206,929 ratings — published 2016
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 27,255 ratings — published 2015
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,299 ratings — published 2013
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 639,663 ratings — published 2011
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 613,280 ratings — published 1990
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 332,348 ratings — published 2023
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,248,846 ratings — published 2018
“He had walked with those who could crack the world like eggs.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Some worlds forget themselves. People do too.”
― The Cartographer’s Curse: Book I of The Leyline Cycle
― The Cartographer’s Curse: Book I of The Leyline Cycle
