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Books like Bartholomew Kettle: 9 series to read next

Bartholomew Kettle is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Bartholomew Kettle is 2 books, 2012–2013.

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Peter Pan
Fabian Time Fantasies
Narnia
Five Children Universe
Alderley
Modern Tale of Faerie
The Anubis Gates
His Dark Materials
The Dark Is Rising

Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peter Pan →

Fabian Time FantasiesSeries

seriesE. Nesbit2 books1908

Time travel.

“E. Nesbit's Edwardian time-travel duology follows two children who use a magic device to slip between their own era and the past.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The House of Arden →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century.

“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 →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy, about quests, set in contemporary.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Tithe →

The Anubis GatesSeries

seriesTim Powers3 books1983

Time travel, mysterious in tone.

“The plot concerns an English professor who participates in a time travel experiment and ends up trapped in the 19th century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Anubis Gates →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, set in contemporary.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

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 Bartholomew Kettle?: Peter Pan — the closest match to Bartholomew Kettle on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Bartholomew Kettle?: The Peculiar. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Bartholomew Kettle.
How big is Bartholomew Kettle?: Bartholomew Kettle is 2 books, 2012–2013.

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