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Books like Borribles: 9 series to read next

Borribles is fantasy, about coming of age, set in contemporary and british isles, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Borribles is 3 books, 1976–1986.

“The three volumes in the trilogy are The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke, and The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis.”
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The Dark Is Rising
Watership Down
Bod Owens
Modern Tale of Faerie
Switchers
His Dark Materials
Varjak Paw
Young Wizards
Echo

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.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, bittersweet and eerie in tone.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

About fae.

Start with Tithe →

SwitchersSeries

seriesKate Thompson3 books1997

About shapeshifters and identity.

“Kate Thompson's Switchers trilogy follows Tess, a Dublin teenager who can shapeshift into any animal but will lose the power forever on her fifteenth birthday.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Switchers →

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 →

Varjak PawSeries

seriesS. F. Said2 books2003

Start with Varjak Paw →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About wizards.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
from the catalogue description

Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

EchoSeries

seriesMelissa Grey3 books2015

About war, set in secondary world.

“Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins.”
from the catalogue description of The Girl at Midnight

Start with The Girl at Midnight →

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 Borribles?: The Dark Is Rising — the closest match to Borribles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Borribles?: The Borribles. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Borribles.
How big is Borribles?: Borribles is 3 books, 1976–1986.
Is Borribles finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1976–1986.

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