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Books like Beneath the Hill / Abaloc: 9 series to read next

Beneath the Hill / Abaloc is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Beneath the Hill / Abaloc is 8 books, 1967–1983.

“In sixteenth-century Wales, a young girl's fair hair and lame foot make her suspect to her neighbors who fear that she is a fairy child and capable of magic.”
from the catalogue description of The Change-Child

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Abaloc
Tolkien's legendarium
Alderley
The Dark Is Rising
Narnia
Peter Pan
His Dark Materials
Five Children Universe
Mythago Wood

AbalocSeries

seriesJane Louise Curry8 books1967

Fantasy.

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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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AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, about quests, set in contemporary and british isles.

“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 →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary and british isles.

“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 →

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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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 →

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

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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 →

Mythago WoodSeries

seriesRobert Holdstock7 books1984

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mythago Wood →

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 Beneath the Hill / Abaloc?: Abaloc — the closest match to Beneath the Hill / Abaloc on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Beneath the Hill / Abaloc?: The Change-Child. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Beneath the Hill / Abaloc.
How big is Beneath the Hill / Abaloc?: Beneath the Hill / Abaloc is 8 books, 1967–1983.

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