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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,088 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.66 — 734,878 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,096,992 ratings — published 2006
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,463 ratings — published 2015
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,723,243 ratings — published 1965
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,223,896 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,125,222 ratings — published 2007
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,831,026 ratings — published 1996
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 304,635 ratings — published 2019
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,251,298 ratings — published 1954
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 362,738 ratings — published 2006
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 814,204 ratings — published 2016
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.03 — 449,677 ratings — published 2015
Eden 2:b (Star Dreamers #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,373 ratings — published
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,551 ratings — published 2019
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,659,794 ratings — published 1937
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,159,772 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,890,217 ratings — published 1997
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.76 — 538,749 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.15 — 560,554 ratings — published 2018
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.37 — 737,789 ratings — published 2007
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,651,195 ratings — published 1995
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,727 ratings — published 2024
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.17 — 199,931 ratings — published 2019
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.14 — 168,504 ratings — published 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.01 — 379,694 ratings — published 1968
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 351,868 ratings — published 1977
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,327 ratings — published 2018
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.20 — 456,571 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 — 3,536,067 ratings — published 2016
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,741,401 ratings — published 2012
The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.06 — 58,395 ratings — published 2014
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,015,847 ratings — published 2014
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,337,978 ratings — published 2008
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 665,067 ratings — published 2008
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.88 — 264,162 ratings — published 2004
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,037,001 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 600,929 ratings — published 2020
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 200,508 ratings — published 2015
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,189,038 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,097,607 ratings — published 1955
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 199,656 ratings — published 2014
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.28 — 208,778 ratings — published 2016
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.04 — 27,765 ratings — published 2015
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,158 ratings — published 2013
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.55 — 643,180 ratings — published 2011
The Eye of the World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.19 — 616,778 ratings — published 1990
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.30 — 339,593 ratings — published 2023
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,287,296 ratings — published 2018
Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as worldbuilding)
avg rating 4.16 — 60,081 ratings — published 2018
“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
“Eshra’s arena, dark and vile, like a black mold growing on the skin of the world. Yet oddly beautiful. The longer I stared at those walls, the more beautiful they appeared. Strong. Inviting.”
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
