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Books like Barry Trotter: 9 series to read next

Barry Trotter is humor and fantasy, about magic schools, set in secondary world, funny in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Barry Trotter is 3 books, 2001–2004.

“The immense popularity and wide recognition of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy series has led to its being extensively parodied, in works spanning nearly every medium.”
from the catalogue description
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Discworld
Derkholm
Myth Adventures
Kyralia series
Dragon Slayers' Academy
Tales from Verania
Circle of Magic
Tolkien's legendarium
The Scholomance

DiscworldUniverse

universe84 books1983

Fantasy, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

“Death speaks IN SMALL CAPITALS and rides a horse called Binky.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Guards! Guards! →

DerkholmSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones2 books1998

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, about magic schools, set in secondary world.

“Year of the Griffin follows one of Derk's griffin children years later, enrolled at a chronically underfunded wizards' university with a band of misfit students.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Dark Lord of Derkholm →

Myth AdventuresSeries

seriesRobert Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye & Phil Foglio33 books1978

Fantasy and humor, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

“After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Another Fine Myth →

Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
from the catalogue description

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Dragon Slayers' AcademySeries

seriesKate McMullan20 books1997

Lighthearted in tone, about dragons.

Start with The New Kid at School →

Tales from VeraniaSeries

seriesTJ Klune10 books2015

Fantasy, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

“Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident.”
from the catalogue description of The Lightning-Struck Heart

Start with The Lightning-Struck Heart →

Circle of MagicUniverse

universe11 books1997

About coming of age.

“Magic here does not thunder from a staff or wait in a dusty grimoire.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

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

Reading order →

The ScholomanceSeries

seriesNaomi Novik3 books2020

Dark fantasy, tense in tone, about survival.

Start with A Deadly Education →

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 Barry Trotter?: Discworld — the closest match to Barry Trotter on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Barry Trotter?: Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Barry Trotter.
How big is Barry Trotter?: Barry Trotter is 3 books, 2001–2004.

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