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Books like Blood and Tea: 9 series to read next

Blood and Tea is fantasy, about vampires and found family, set in secondary world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Blood and Tea is 2 books, 2024–2025.

“Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea introduces Arthie Casimir, a criminal mastermind whose renowned tearoom in the city of White Roaring doubles after dark as an illegal bloodhouse serving the vampires society fears.”
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Grishaverse
Tolkien's legendarium
Cosmere
The Tainted Blood Duology
Gentleman Bastard Sequence
World of Ice and Fire
The Prison Healer
The Codex Alera
Midnight Thief

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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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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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

The Tainted Blood DuologySeries

seriesEhigbor Okosun2 books2023

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

Start with Forged by Blood →

Gentleman Bastard SequenceSeries

seriesScott Lynch7 books2006

About con artists.

“The Lies of Locke Lamora and its two sequels braid heist capers with flashbacks tracing how the gang was trained, escalating into a wider conflict involving crime lords and sorcerers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Lies of Locke Lamora →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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The Prison HealerSeries

seriesLynette Noni3 books2021

Epic fantasy.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Prison Healer →

The Codex AleraSeries

seriesJim Butcher6 books2004

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Jim Butcher's six-book series, continuing through Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, and First Lord's Fury, builds from small-scale political maneuvering into full-scale war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Furies of Calderon →

Midnight ThiefSeries

seriesLivia Blackburne3 books2013

Fantasy, tense and adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

Start with Poison Dance →

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 Blood and Tea?: Grishaverse — the closest match to Blood and Tea on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Blood and Tea?: A Tempest of Tea. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Blood and Tea.
How big is Blood and Tea?: Blood and Tea is 2 books, 2024–2025.

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