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Books like Allan Quatermain: 9 series to read next

Allan Quatermain is adventure, about expeditions, set in africa and 19th century, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Allan Quatermain is 25 books, 1885–2024.

“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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Tarzan
Voyages extraordinaires
Jungle Book
Zulu Nation
Felix
Pym
Wolves Chronicles
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar universe
Alexander Cold

TarzanUniverse

universe100 books1912

Adventure, adventurous in tone, 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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Voyages extraordinairesSeries

seriesJules Verne, A. Laurie, Bill Bowler, Deanna McFadden, Donald M. McFarlan, Gardner F. Fox, H. E. Palmer, Howard J. Schwach, Kathleen Olmstead, Kathryn Lay, Maria José Lobo, Marian Leighton, Michael Dean, Pepita Subirà & Raymond James59 books1863

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in 19th century.

“The cycle features some of Verne's best known titles, such as Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with A Floating City →

Jungle BookUniverse

universe44 books1893

Set in south asia.

“The Law of the Jungle is older than any animal reciting it, and a naked man-cub who wandered into a wolf den at dusk will have to learn every clause of it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Jungle Book →

Zulu NationSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard1 book1892

Emotional in tone.

“H. Rider Haggard's Nada the Lily is set during the rise of the Zulu king Shaka, following Umslopogaas, Shaka's unacknowledged son, and his love for the celebrated beauty Nada.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Nada the Lily →

FelixSeries

seriesJoan Aiken3 books1977

About coming of age, set in europe.

“In 1821, an orphaned twelve-year-old boy runs away from his unhappy home in Spain to England where he tries to find his father's family.”
from the catalogue description of Go Saddle the Sea

Start with Go Saddle the Sea →

PymSeries

seriesEdgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne & Mat Johnson5 books1838

Set in arctic & antarctica and at sea.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

seriesJoan Aiken12 books1962

Set in british isles.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar universeSeries

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Christopher Paul Carey, John Eric Holmes, uncredited, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, F. Paul Wilson, Lee Strong, Mercedes Lackey & Mike Wolfer24 books1922

Set in underground & caves.

Start with Pellucidar: Dawn of the Deathslayer →

Alexander ColdSeries

seriesIsabel Allende3 books2002

About coming of age, set in contemporary.

“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

Start with City of the Beasts →

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 Allan Quatermain?: Tarzan — the closest match to Allan Quatermain on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Allan Quatermain?: Marie. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Allan Quatermain.
How big is Allan Quatermain?: Allan Quatermain is 25 books, 1885–2024.

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