In addition to the five main novels, the series is also comprised of a novella called The Creature in the Case, published in 2005, and several short fiction stories. Following the release of its third book in 2003, author Nix came up with a prequel novel titled Clariel in 2014. The series first began in 1995 with its first book called Sabriel. Well, there's more but I've got people over that I shouldn't really ignore to talk books (they understand but hubby doesn't ) so I'll head off and wish you luck in finding lots more good books to read.The Old Kingdom series is a popular series of young adult and fantasy books written by an award winning Australian author named Garth Nix.Īfter being originally published in Australia, the series was re-published in the United States under the new title of the Abhorsen series.

Some examples of this are Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series, Modesitt's series that has a similar title something like Spellsinger but not - I can't think of it at the moment - and Rosenberg's series about a group of Dungeons and Dragons type players who get transported to their own little fantasy world. For this series, the main character is a normal joe who happens to play an instrument in a renaissance faire in California and the rest is part of the book so I won't tellĪnd then there are those that deal with us normal folks who happen to get accidentally transported to some fantasy realm without our knowledge and then those characters have to deal with the new world and situation as and how they can. I believe it is the Bard series (not to be confused with her Bardic series from earlier which is entirely fantasy - and really good reading - and also includes bards), but I'm not entirely sure of the titles. Obviously some have already been mentioned but for lighter fare Mercedes Lackey has a series based in our world which concerns the sidhe (of dark and light) who tend to fight amongst themselves and involve normal everyday peoples, especially those who happen to have some sort of talent that helps them help one side or the other.

Well, I haven't read Nix's Abhorsen series but if you are looking for books with a mix of the real world and some fantasy there are quite a few.

Books like sabriel