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Books like Beastkeeper: 9 series to read next

Beastkeeper is fantasy and fairy tale retelling, about curses, set in secondary world, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Beastkeeper is 2 books, 2015–2018.

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Tolkien's legendarium
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Folktales
Earthsea
Gilded Duology
The Last Descendants
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Gormenghast
Narnia

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

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Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries

seriesStephanie Garber4 books2021

Romantasy.

“Once Upon a Broken Heart and its sequels follow the fallout of that bargain across a fairy-tale-inflected world of curses and dangerous magic.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Once Upon a Broken Heart →

FolktalesSeries

seriesRobin McKinley3 books1978

Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.

“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue description of Beauty

Start with Beauty →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue description

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Gilded DuologySeries

seriesMarissa Meyer2 books2021

Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, about curses, set in secondary world.

“Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue.”
from the catalogue description of Gilded

Start with Gilded →

The Last DescendantsSeries

seriesCatherine Banner3 books2008

Fantasy, about family secrets and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“The first book, The Eyes of a King, became the first part of the series The Last Descendants.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Eyes of a King →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic, dark in tone.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Titus Groan →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“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

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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 Beastkeeper?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Beastkeeper on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Beastkeeper?: Beastkeeper. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Beastkeeper.
How big is Beastkeeper?: Beastkeeper is 2 books, 2015–2018.

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