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Books like Beyond the Circle: 9 series to read next

Beyond the Circle is fantasy and portal fantasy, about chosen one, set in contemporary, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Beyond the Circle is 2 books, from 2018.

“Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams.”
from the catalogue description of The 49th Mystic

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The Dark Is Rising
Dreamhouse Kings
The Indian in the Cupboard
Coraline
The Guardians of Time
Narnia
Alfred Kropp
Talisman
Fionavar Universe

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, set in 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 →

Dreamhouse KingsSeries

seriesRobert Liparulo6 books2008

Time travel.

Start with House of Dark Shadows →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

About coming of age.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

CoralineSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell2 books2002

Horror, eerie in tone, about coming of age.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Coraline →

The Guardians of TimeSeries

seriesMarianne Curley4 books2002

Time travel.

“The first novel in the Guardians of Time Trilogy, it follows Ethan, a member of The Named, and his new apprentice, Isabel, who he is training under the guidance of his mentor Arkarian.”
from the catalogue description of The Named
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Named →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

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

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Alfred KroppSeries

seriesRick Yancey3 books2005

About coming of age and magical artifacts.

“Rick Yancey's Alfred Kropp trilogy follows the teenage title character through three young-adult fantasy-adventure novels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp →

TalismanSeries

seriesStephen King, Peter Straub & Robin Furth4 books1984

Fantasy and portal fantasy, set in contemporary and north america.

“Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman follows twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer as he crosses between our world and the Territories, a parallel realm, on a cross-country quest to save his dying mother.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Talisman →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

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 Beyond the Circle?: The Dark Is Rising — the closest match to Beyond the Circle on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Beyond the Circle?: The 49th Mystic. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Beyond the Circle.
How big is Beyond the Circle?: Beyond the Circle is 2 books, from 2018.

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