Series
Books like Black Jewels: 9 series to read next
Black Jewels is dark fantasy, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.
Black Jewels is 23 books, 1998–2024.
“In the time ago, before there were The Blood, at the end of the Age of Dragons...”
from the catalogue description of Weaver of Dreams
- World of Ice and Fire
- Malazan
- The Circle of the World
- Stephen King multiverse
- Night Angel
- The Broken Empire
- Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
- Thomas Cale
- Grishaverse
- World of Ice and FireUniverse
universe19 books1980
Epic fantasy, about war.
matchedsecondary worlddarkfantasypolitical intrigue
- Night AngelUniverse
universe6 books2008
About assassins.
matcheddark fantasysecondary worlddarkfantasytense
seriesStephen R. Donaldson11 books1977
Epic fantasy, about quests.
matchedsecondary worlddarkfantasy
- Thomas CaleSeries
seriesPaul Hoffman4 books2010
About war and faith and religion.
matcheddark fantasysecondary worlddark
Read next in Black Jewels
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 Black Jewels?
- World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to Black Jewels on what it is about, not on what sells.
- Where do I start with Black Jewels?
- Weaver of Dreams. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Black Jewels.
- How big is Black Jewels?
- Black Jewels is 23 books, 1998–2024.