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Books like A Dragon's Guide: 9 series to read next

A Dragon's Guide is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

A Dragon's Guide is 3 books, 2015–2017.

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The Wind in the Willows Universe
Tolkien's legendarium
Five Children Universe
Enchanted Forest
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart
Kenny & the Dragon
Doctor Dolittle
Tales of Magic
My Father's Dragon

seriesKenneth Grahame, William Horwood, Anne McKie, Ellen Miles, Inga Moore, Juliet Stanley, Kij Johnson, Lesley Sims, M. G. Leonard, Samantha Noonan & Susan Hill17 books1908

Set in british isles.

Start with The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue description

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Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Enchanted ForestSeries

seriesPatricia C. Wrede7 books1985

Fantasy, lighthearted in tone, about dragons, set in secondary world.

“Patricia Collins Wrede is an American author of fantasy literature.”
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Start with Dealing with Dragons →

The Dragon with a Chocolate HeartSeries

seriesStephanie Burgis3 books2017

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Aventurine is not the kind of dragon who can sit inside her family mountain for decades.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart →

Kenny & the DragonSeries

seriesTony DiTerlizzi2 books2008

Fantasy, lighthearted and whimsical in tone, about dragons, set in secondary world.

“DiTerlizzi named the two protagonists Kenneth and Grahame, after the original story's author Kenneth Grahame.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Kenny & the Dragon →

Doctor DolittleSeries

seriesHugh Lofting, Kathryn Knight & Nick Price27 books1920

Set in our world.

“Lofting wrote twelve novels between 1920 and 1936, beginning with The Story of Doctor Dolittle, with two further story collections published after his 1947 death.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

Set in our world and contemporary.

“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Half Magic →

My Father's DragonSeries

seriesRuth Stiles Gannett4 books1948

Adventurous in tone, set in islands.

Start with My Father's Dragon →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after A Dragon's Guide?: The Wind in the Willows Universe — the closest match to A Dragon's Guide on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with A Dragon's Guide?: A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for A Dragon's Guide.
How big is A Dragon's Guide?: A Dragon's Guide is 3 books, 2015–2017.

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