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Books like Batman: 9 series to read next

Batman is superhero, set in contemporary and big city. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Batman is 52 books, 1966–2025.

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Hap Collins and Leonard Pine
Finders Keepers (Stephen King)
The Dresden Files
Jack Nightingale
Charlie Parker
Cal Leandros
Anita Blake
Olympus Bound
Henry Fitzroy

Hap Collins and Leonard PineSeries

seriesJoe R. Lansdale & Andrew Vachss46 books1990

About friendship.

“The long-running series mixes hardboiled crime plotting with the two leads' running banter and loyalty to each other.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Savage Season →

Finders Keepers (Stephen King)Series

seriesStephen King7 books2014

Mystery & detective and thriller & suspense, tense in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and north america.

“The mix of true-crime procedural instincts and creeping horror is a hallmark of King's later work with the character.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Outsider →

The Dresden FilesSeries

seriesJim Butcher & Mark Powers (comics)56 books2000

Urban fantasy, about wizards.

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Fistful of Warlocks →

Jack NightingaleSeries

seriesStephen Leather, Alex Shaw, Andrew Fusek Peters, Conrad Jones, Lynne Waterman, Matt Hilton & Robert Waterman39 books2010

Set in contemporary.

“Stephen Leather's series follows Nightingale as people around him start dying in increasingly inexplicable ways, forcing a skeptic into treating the occult threat as real.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Nightfall →

Charlie ParkerSeries

seriesJohn Connolly22 books1999

Mystery & detective, dark in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and north america.

“Now well over twenty books, the series has grown Parker's two associates, Louis and Angel, into major recurring characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Every Dead Thing →

Cal LeandrosSeries

seriesRob Thurman13 books2006

Urban fantasy.

“There's a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side-and that's only the beginning.”
from the catalogue description of Nightlife
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Nightlife →

Anita BlakeSeries

seriesLaurell K. Hamilton & Jonathon Green42 books1993

Urban fantasy, about vampires.

“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Guilty Pleasures →

Olympus BoundSeries

seriesJordanna Max Brodsky3 books2016

Urban fantasy, about gods.

“The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed.....those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years.”
from the catalogue description of The Immortals

Start with The Immortals →

Henry FitzroySeries

seriesTanya Huff29 books1991

Urban fantasy, about vampires.

“Henry Fitzroy, bastard son of Henry VIII and Vampire foils a spy's plan to betray England to Napoleon's forces.”
from the catalogue description of What Manner of Man

Start with What Manner of Man →

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 Batman?: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine — the closest match to Batman on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Batman?: The Batman Murders. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Batman.
How big is Batman?: Batman is 52 books, 1966–2025.

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