The Broken Earth

Three consecutive Hugo Awards went to this trilogy, and the ratings climb right alongside: The Fifth Season (8.5), The Obelisk Gate (8.7), The Stone Sky (8.8). N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth opens with a season of endings, a great red rift torn across the world's sole continent, ash blotting out the sun, a murdered son and a missing daughter, and it escalates from there to a conclusion its own publisher fairly calls shattering.

Start with The Fifth Season, without exception; the later books lean hard on its foundations. What defines the series is its refusal to soften. This is post-apocalyptic fantasy where survival, family and the fate of the world are braided together, and it is that rare trilogy that improves with every volume, finishing strongest exactly where most series fade.

The The Broken Earth franchise spans 3 books in the CrossBinge catalog.