I'm glad someone's getting use out of my lists besides me. I keep them so I can remember the general premise and titles in sequence of series I liked. I read so many I forget them sometimes. I started a list a while back for stuff in the fantasy realm that might be good choices for my niece or other teens. I like to give books as gifts. I'll put the list inside so it's there if you want it. -- LKH Anita Blake Series

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Date Posted: 16:14:00 06/19/09 Fri
Author: Shads
Subject: I'm glad someone's getting use out of my lists besides me. I keep them so I can remember the general premise and titles in sequence of series I liked. I read so many I forget them sometimes. I started a list a while back for stuff in the fantasy realm that might be good choices for my niece or other teens. I like to give books as gifts. I'll put the list inside so it's there if you want it.
In reply to: Robyn 's message, "I'll put the author on the list with the others you've recommended....which is printed in my purse and saved to my desktop incase I lose the printed copy :) Thanks again Shads!!" on 15:58:28 06/19/09 Fri

SF/Fantasy books that are NOT too racy or overly violent
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Marion Zimmer Bradley http://mzbworks.home.att.net/

Darkover series
For a detailed understanding of the (extremely complicated) premise for this series, see wikipedia's entry here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkover_series

MZB always insisted that the Darkover novels are not a series and can be read in any order, since none of the books assumes that you are familiar with any other of the books. If you simply MUST have an order in which to read them, it is better to read them chronologically by publication date, rather than in chronology of Darkovan history; that way you will follow MZB's thought processes as her concept of Darkover grew and expanded.

1. Planet Savers
2. Sword of Aldones
3. The Bloody Sun
4. Star of Danger
5. Winds of Darkover
6. World Wreckers
7. Darkover Landfall
8. The Spell Sword
9. Heritage of Hastur
10. Shattered Chain
11. Forbidden Tower
12. Stormqueen
13. Two to Conquer
14. Sharra's Exile
15. Hawkmistress
16. Thendara House
17 City of Sorcery
18. Heirs of Hammerfell
19 Rediscovery (with Mercedes Lackey)
20 Exile's Song (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
21 Shadow Matrix (by Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
22. Traitor's Sun (by Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
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Lois McMaster Bujold - http://www.dendarii.com/

This fantasy series is more romance than adventure, but very sweet.

1. The Sharing Knife : volume 1 Beguilement
2. The Sharing Knife: volume 2 Legacy
3. The Sharing Knife: volume 3 Passage
4. The Sharing Knife: volume 4: Wide Green World
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Jim Butcher -- http://www.jim-butcher.com/

The Dresden Files
Harry Dresden is a wizard for hire who solves paranormal crimes.
1. Storm Front
2. Fool Moon
3. Grave Peril
4. Summer Knight
5. Death Masks
6. Blood Rites
7. Dead Beat
8. Proven Guilty
9. White Night
10. Small Favor
11. Turn Coat
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Rachel Caine -- http://www.rachelcaine.com/

Morganville Vampire series
College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero.
When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.

1, Glass Houses
2. The Dead Girl's Dance
3. Midnight Alley
4. Feast of Fools
5. Lord of Misrule
6. Carpe Corpus
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P.N. Elrod http://www.vampwriter.com/

The Vampire Files
Elrod has several different loosely related vamp series, but my favorite is set in 1930s Gangland Chicago and features Jack Fleming, small time reporter turned PI ....who is also a vampire. Written like Sam Spade with a paranormal twist, these books are more mystery than fantasy. ~Shads

1. Bloodlist
2. Life Blood
3. Bloodcircle
4. Art in the Blood
5. Fire in the Blood
6. Blood on the Water
7. A Chill in the Blood
8. The Dark Sleep
9. Lady Crymsyn
10. Cold Streets
11. A Song in the Dark
12. Dark Road Rising
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Barbara Hambly http://www.barbarahambly.com/

Darwath Trilogy and related books
Epic fantasy with horror overtones. Hambly's fiirst published works, the Darwath trilogy is original and frightening, with overtones of HP Lovecraft. (The Dark Ones are truly creepy.) Very strong female characters dominate her writing. ~Shads
1. The Time of the Dark
2. The Walls of Air
3. The Armies of Darkness
4. Mother of Winter
5. Icefalcon's Quest

The Windrose Chronicles
One of the earliest 'computers meet magic' series. Fascinating characters, romance, adventure, suspense. Epic fantasy style with a healthy dose of romance. ~Shads
1. The Silent Tower
2. The Silicon Mage
3. Dog Wizard

(non-series, set in same world as Windrose)
Stranger at the Wedding

Sun Wolf andf Starhawk series
Mercenaries. epic conflict, magic and romance. Among my all-time favorites.
When mercenary Captain Sun Wolf turns down a contract for his army to fight a war against the last wizard on earth, his would-be employer abducts him, poisons him, and forces him to train the women of the hostage city into an army to fight instead. Wonderful exploration of the natures of men and women, of magic, of commitment. I wish she'd write more in this series. ~Shads
1. The Ladies of Mandrigyn
2. The Witches of Weshar
3. The Dark Hand of Magic

Winterlands
Romance, magic, dragons, folklore. Hambly has a gift for examining the nature of magic and the sacrifices required to practice it. I really loved the first book, but the latter books in the series are pretty dark. ~Shads
1. Dragonsbane
2. Dragonshadow
3. Knight of the Demon Queen
4. Dragonstar
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Charlaine Harris http://www.charlaineharris.com/

(Sookie Stackhouse/southern vampire mystery series)
1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead in Dallas
3. Club Dead
4. Dead to the World
5. Dead as a Doornail
6. Definitely Dead
7. All Together Dead
8. From Dead to Worse
9. Dead and Gone

(Harper Connelly mysteries)
Harper Connolly is honest, ethical, loyal, and, in many people's eyes, quite odd. Since being hit by lightning, Harper has a strange gift: she can find dead people and reveal how they died. Harper is so down-to-earth and delivers the story in such a straightforward way that even the most hardened realist eventually will accept the premise. In this first outing, Harper and her manager and stepbrother Tolliver travel to a small town in Arkansas to determine what happened to a local teenager. Once there, they learn that someone is willing go to great lengths--even murder--to bury a secret. While absorbing the usual mixture of awe, revulsion, and fear that her "gift" inspires in the locals, Harper tries to uncover the secret they are trying desperately to hide.
1. Grave Sight
2. Grave Surprise
3. An Ice Cold Grave
4. Grave Secret
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Tanya Huff http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/tanya-huff/

The Blood Books
Vicki Nelson is an ex-homicide cop turned private detective. Mike Celluci, Vicki's former parter, is still on the force. Henry Fitzroy is an author of bodice rippers-and a vampire. Together, the trio find themselves caught up in mysteries with a supernatural slant-from demons to werewolves and every otherworldly creature in between.

1. Blood Price
2. Blood Trail
3. Blood Lines
4. Blood Pact
5. Blood Debt
6. Blood Bank

The Smoke Trilogy (spinoff featuring Henry Fitzroy)
1. Smoke and Shadows
2. Smoke and Mirrors
3. Smoke and Ashes

Keeper's Chronicles
Being one of Earth's protectors is never easy, but when Claire the Keeper and Austin the cat find themselves in charge of the Elysian Fields Guesthouse Bed and Breakfast, all Hell breaks loose in the form of a gateway residing in thebasement.

1. Summon the Keeper
2. The Second Summoning
3. Long Hot Summoning
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Guy Gavriel Kay http://www.brightweavings.com/

The Fionavar Tapestry
Epic fantasy tale of 5 Canadian college students who are taken to Fionavar, the first of all worlds, by Loren Silvercloak, a mage of that world. Although invited as guests of the court to witness the anniversary of the crowning of the king, they rapidly become embroiled in an epic struggle between good and evil, and find themselves cast in roles far more complex than mere observers.

1. The Summer Tree
2. The Wandering Fire
3. The Darkest Road
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Mercedes Lackey http://www.mercedeslackey.com/

Diana Tregarde mysteries
Diana Tregarde is a romance writer. She's also a highly skilled witch and a Guardian. The Guardians are a secret society of people from various religious faiths who have psychic gifts. The Guardians are defenders of humanity against occult evils--evils the average guy on the street doesn't have a clue is there.

1. Burning Water
2. Children of the Night
3. Jinx High

Bardic Universe -- suitable for young adults
The Lark and the Wren --The tale of a daring adventuress whose heart and spirit seek expertise in music, but whose experiences lead to : knowledge of life itself. Born out of wedlock, 14-year-old Rune is condemned to remain the butt of local gossip. She has dreams of joining the Bardic Guild, whose members enjoy high status, wealth, and security. First, though, she must escape from the village and her lowly status, and risk all to become a famous bard. Mages, musicians, elves, gypsies, usurper kings, and townspeople are drawn with color and an even assortment of good and bad. The clergy, however, receive a one-sided treatment, a point that is rather belabored. Although long and rambling, the book will satisfy those who enjoy Lackey's skill at weaving fantasy, intrigue, magic, power, and love into a good tale.

1. The Lark and the Wren
2. The Robin and the Kestrel
3. Eagle and the Nightingales
4. Four and Twenty Blackbirds
5. A Cast of Corbies
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Stephenie Meyer http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/

Twilight series
1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Eclipse
4. Breaking Dawn
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Tamora Pierce http://www.tamora-pierce.com/

These books contain some sex and violence, sanitized for a younger audience. This is my 14-Y-O niece's favorite author.

The Song of the Lioness
1. Alanna: The First Adventure
2. In the Hand of the Goddess
3. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
4. Lioness Rampant

The Immortals
1. Wild Magic
2. Wolf-Speaker
3.The Emperor Mage
4. The Realms of the Gods

The Circle of Magic
1. Magic Circle: Sandry's Book
2. Magic Circle: Tris's Book
3. Magic Circle: Daja's Book
4. Magic Circle: Briar's Book

Protector of the Small
1. First Test
2. Page
3. Squire
4. Lady Knight

The Circle Opens
1. Magic Steps
2. Street Magic
3. Cold Fire
4. Shatterglass

Trickster series
1. Trickster's Choice
2. Trickster's Queen
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Terry Pratchett http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

Discworld series
Extremely humorous spoofs of classic sci fi and fantasy standards. If you love SF/fantasy, you willget a kick out of these. Need not be read in sequence, thank goodness, although it is nice to read certain leading character series in order. I have not read all of these titles because he was just so prolific. My favorite series/character groups--Death, the witches (Granny Weatherwax and co.), the guards of Ankh-Morpork. I love this type of humor and recommend them strongly. Particular favorites are Mort, Reaper Man, and Witches Abroad. ~Shads
1. The Light Fantastic
2. The Colour of Magic
3. Equal Rites
4. Carpe Jugulum
5. Wyrd Sisters
6. Sourcery
7. Mort
8. The Fifth Elephant
9. Pyamids
10. Guards! Guards!
11. The Truth
12. Moving Pictures
13. Eric
14. Thief of Time
15. Witches Abroad
16. Reaper Man
17. The Last Hero
18. Small Gods
19. Lords and Ladies
20. Soul Music
21. Men at Arms
22. The Bromeliad Trilogy
23. Night Watch
23. Interesting Times
24. Feet of Clay
25. Maskerade
26. Jingo
27. Monstrous Regiment
28. The Last Continent
29. Where's My Cow?
30. Going Postal
31. Only You Can Save Mankind
32. The Wee Free Men
33. A Hat Full of Sky
34. Thud!
35. Good Omens
36. Johhny and the Dead
37. Johnny and the Bomb
38. Making Money
39. The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld
40. Wintersmith
41. Hogfather
42. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
43. Nation
44. Unseen Academicals
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Jennifer Roberson http://www.cheysuli.com/index.html

The Chronicles of the Cheysuli
Long out of print, The Chronicles of Cheysuli is the fantasy epic that launched Jennifer Roberson's best-selling career --now re-released in 4 omnibus editions. A sprawling saga of the exiles-and return-of a warrior race of shapechangers, the magical odyssey begins in Shapechanger's Song.

1. Shapechanger's Song (omni)
1. Shapechangers
2. Song of Homana
2. Legacy of the Wolf (omni)
3. Legacy of the Sword
4. Tracks of the White Wolf
3. Children of the Lion (omni)
5. A Pride of Princes
6. Daughter of the Lion
4. The Lion Throne (omni)
7. Flight of the Raven
8. A Tapestry of Lions

(3 new Cheysuli books are planned, no titles or release dates yet.)
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JK Rowling http://www.jkrowling.com/en/

Harry Potter series
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Maria Snyder http://www.mariavsnyder.com/

Classic fantasy
Study series
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered a reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace, and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust, and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena tries to escape her dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and she develops magical powers she can't control. Her life’s at stake again and choices must be made.

1. Poison Study
2. Magic Study
3. Fire Study

Glass series
As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it’s time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan’s glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers—particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade—require Opal’s unique talents to prevent it happening again. But when the mission goes awry, Opal must tap into a new kind of magic as stunningly potent as it is frightening. And the further she delves into the intrigue behind the glass and magic, the more distorted things appear. With lives hanging in the balance—including her own—Opal must control powers she never knew she possessed...powers that might lead to disaster beyond anything she’s ever known.

1. Storm Glass
2. Sea Glass
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Mary Stewart

Merlin series
Merlin's fictional autobiography. This is my favorite retelling of the legend of King Arthur. A wonderful read, although I usually skip book 4, which is Mordred's story and depressing. ~Shads

1. The Crystal Cave
2. The Hollow Hills
3. The Last Enchantment
4. The Wicked Day
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Judith Tarr http://www.sff.net/people/judith-tarr/

The Hound and the Falcon trilogy (historical fantasy)
Alfred of St. Ruan's Abbey is a monk and a scholar, a religious man whose vocation is beyond question. But Alfred is also, without a doubt, one of the fair folk, for though he is more than seventy years old by the Abbey's records, he seems to be only a youth.

Alfred is drawn from the haven of his monastery into the dangerous currents of politics when an ambassador from the kingdom of Rhiyana to Richard Coeur de Leon is wounded and Alfred himself is sent to complete the mission. There he encounters the Hounds of God, who believe that the fair folk have no souls, and must be purged from the Church and from the world.

1. The Isle of Glass
2. The Golden Horn
3. The Hounds of God
related:
4. Alamut
5. Dagger and Cross
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Carrie Vaughn http://www.carrievaughn.com/

Kitty Norville is a radio talk show host who is also a werewolf. She runs a late night call-in show for the supernaturally challenged called The Midnight Hour. (contains some sex and violence)

1. Kitty and the Midnight Hour
2. Kitty Goes to Washington
3. Kitty Takes a Holiday
4. Kitty and the Silver Bullet
5. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
6. Kitty Raises Hell
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[> [> [> [> [> [> Again - WOW! you rock! List is printed and saved : ) Now I just need more hours in the day to read. Time for a clone or droid *G* -- Robyn, 14:19:56 06/22/09 Mon

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