If you're a completionist, read in this order. Otherwise you can start with The Liveship Traders Trilogy or The Rain Wild Chronicles, but make sure you save Fitz and the Fool for last.

This isn't Disney's little mermaid! A collection of horror, dark fiction, and gothic romances featuring mermaids.

All of her groundbreaking works, exploring themes of Afrofuturism, power, and survival.

Masterpieces of Russian literature, attempting to cover a broad range of the most well known authors.

The four books in Tolkien’s main Middle-earth saga + several other collections published posthumously.

Creepy crawling vines, sentient mushrooms, or a killer forest; no matter what shape they take, plants and fungi play a main part in these horror novels.

From Greco-Roman to Egyptian to Norse mythology, these Gods just can't stop meddling in our modern day world.

An introduction to the Fantasy genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.

Books that made it on the big screen

A collection of the pilot books for popular series, for those of us who love to follow a character's journey for as long as an author will let us! Some of the below series have heavily debated starting points and book read orders--in those cases the pilot was selected based on what seems to be the most popular approach.

I like my castles cold, my moors windswept, and my heroines swooning.