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Books like Blythewood: 9 series to read next

Blythewood is fantasy and historical fantasy, about coming of age, set in our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Blythewood is 3 books, 2013–2015.

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Modern Tale of Faerie
The Mortal Instruments
Five Children Universe
His Dark Materials
The Dark Is Rising
Dreamhunter Duet
The Dark Elite
The Curse Workers
This Poison Heart

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

Fantasy and urban fantasy, about coming of age and fae, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Tithe →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Fantasy, set in early 20th century and british isles.

“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 →

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

Reading order →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy.

“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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Dreamhunter DuetSeries

seriesElizabeth Knox2 books2005

Fantasy, mysterious in tone, about coming of age.

“Dreamquake received recognition as an Honor Book for the Michael L. Printz Award in 2008.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Dreamhunter →

The Dark EliteSeries

seriesChloe Neill3 books2009

Urban fantasy, tense in tone, about coming of age and magic schools, set in contemporary and our world.

“Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich.”
from the catalogue description of Firespell

Start with Firespell →

The Curse WorkersSeries

seriesHolly Black3 books2010

About curses and organized crime.

“Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families.”
from the catalogue description

Start with White Cat →

This Poison HeartSeries

seriesKalynn Bayron2 books2021

About witches.

“Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.”
from the catalogue description

Start with This Poison Heart →

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 Blythewood?: Modern Tale of Faerie — the closest match to Blythewood on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Blythewood?: Blythewood. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Blythewood.
How big is Blythewood?: Blythewood is 3 books, 2013–2015.

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