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Books like Belladonna: 9 series to read next

Belladonna is fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Belladonna is 4 books, 2022–2025.

“Set in a haunted, death-adjacent version of the era, it follows an orphaned heiress entangled with Death itself as she investigates the murders and mysteries surrounding her inherited estate.”
from the catalogue description

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Queen's Thief
An Ember in the Ashes
Caraval
Kushiel's Legacy Universe
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Grishaverse
Tortall
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Tales from the Sinister City

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

About political intrigue.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

CaravalSeries

seriesStephanie Garber4 books2017

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The books form one continuing story rather than standalone volumes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Caraval →

Kushiel's Legacy UniverseSeries

seriesJacqueline Carey13 books2001

About political intrigue.

“Since the series features a fictional version of medieval Western Europe, it can be considered historical fantasy or alternate history.”
from the catalogue description of Earth Begotten

Start with Earth Begotten →

Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries

seriesStephanie Garber4 books2021

About curses.

“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 →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

Adventurous in tone.

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
from the catalogue description

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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) →

Tales from the Sinister CitySeries

seriesF. E. Higgins4 books2007

“Each book stands as its own dark, fairy-tale-style mystery rather than continuing a single plot, unified by setting and tone more than by recurring characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Black Book of Secrets →

Why these

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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 Belladonna?: Queen's Thief — the closest match to Belladonna on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Belladonna?: Belladonna. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Belladonna.
How big is Belladonna?: Belladonna is 4 books, 2022–2025.

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