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Books like Alexander Cold: 9 series to read next

Alexander Cold is adventure, about expeditions and coming of age, set in contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Alexander Cold is 3 books, 2002–2004.

“Walden Media acquired the novel's movie rights in 2006, but no film has yet been produced.”
from the catalogue description of City of the Beasts

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Tarzan
Tolkien's legendarium
Allan Quatermain
Alfred Kropp
Jack Howard
Matt Cruse
Watership Down
Roland Smith's Cryptid Series
Young Wizards

TarzanUniverse

universe100 books1912

Set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
from the catalogue description

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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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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Allan QuatermainSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard, Jean Francis Webb & Thomas Kent Miller25 books1885

Set in 19th century.

“An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Marie →

Alfred KroppSeries

seriesRick Yancey3 books2005

About magical artifacts.

“Rick Yancey's Alfred Kropp trilogy follows the teenage title character through three young-adult fantasy-adventure novels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp →

Jack HowardSeries

seriesDavid Gibbins8 books2005

Thriller & suspense, tense in tone.

Start with Atlantis →

Matt CruseSeries

seriesKenneth Oppel3 books2004

Adventure, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in our world.

“Airborn opens Kenneth Oppel's trilogy with Matt Cruse, a cabin boy aboard a transoceanic passenger airship, who joins a search for a legendary flying creature whose existence no one can prove.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Airborn →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests and found family, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

Roland Smith's Cryptid SeriesSeries

seriesRoland Smith5 books1998

Tense in tone.

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Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About wizards.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
from the catalogue description

Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Alexander Cold?: Tarzan — the closest match to Alexander Cold on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Alexander Cold?: City of the Beasts. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Alexander Cold.
How big is Alexander Cold?: Alexander Cold is 3 books, 2002–2004.

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