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Books like Bloodwing Academy: 9 series to read next

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

Bloodwing Academy is 4 books, 2025–2026.

“We're just blood in their veins, pawns in their games.”
from the catalogue description of On Wings of Blood

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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Grishaverse
World of Ice and Fire
Earthsea
An Ember in the Ashes
Legacy of Orisha
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
The Empyrean
The Powerless Trilogy

A Court of Thorns and RosesSeries

seriesSarah J. Maas6 books2015

Fantasy and romantasy, emotional in tone, about fae, set in secondary world.

“There are currently five novels in the series, with the sixth scheduled to release on October 27, 2026, and the seventh on January 12, 2027.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses →

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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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

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

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue description

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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 →

Legacy of OrishaSeries

seriesTomi Adeyemi3 books2018

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

“Tomi Adeyemi's Legacy of Orïsha trilogy opens with Children of Blood and Bone, following Zélie, a girl from a persecuted caste of former magic-users, on a quest to restore magic to a kingdom that outlawed and hunted her people.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Children of Blood and Bone →

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) →

The EmpyreanSeries

seriesRebecca Yarros4 books2023

Epic fantasy.

“Rebecca Yarros's The Empyrean opens with Fourth Wing, following Violet Sorrengail as she's pushed into a brutal dragon-rider war college despite having trained for a different, less physically demanding path.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Fourth Wing →

The Powerless TrilogySeries

seriesLauren Roberts5 books2023

Fantasy and romantasy, set in secondary world.

“Lauren Roberts' trilogy, beginning with Powerless, was later expanded with a further Fearless duology set in the same world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Powerless →

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 Bloodwing Academy?: A Court of Thorns and Roses — the closest match to Bloodwing Academy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Bloodwing Academy?: On Wings of Blood. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Bloodwing Academy.
How big is Bloodwing Academy?: Bloodwing Academy is 4 books, 2025–2026.

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