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Books like Bright Empires: 9 series to read next

Bright Empires is about quests and magical artifacts, mysterious in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Bright Empires is 5 books, 2010–2014.

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The Copernicus Legacy
The Kronos Chronicles
His Dark Materials
Seven Wonders
D. O. D. O. (Department of Diachronic Operations)
Tolkien's legendarium
Watership Down
Kairos
The Chronicles of the Black Tulip

The Copernicus LegacySeries

seriesTony Abbott6 books2014

“While a work of fiction, it does incorporate some facts about Copernicus's history.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Forbidden Stone →

The Kronos ChroniclesSeries

seriesMarie Rutkoski3 books2008

“Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.”
from the catalogue description of The Cabinet of Wonders

Start with The Cabinet of Wonders →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age.

“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

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Seven WondersSeries

seriesPeter Lerangis10 books2013

“Jack McKinley discovers a secret organization on a hidden island, and becomes the leader of a mission to retrieve seven lost magical orbs.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Colossus Rises →

D. O. D. O. (Department of Diachronic Operations)Series

seriesNicole Galland & Neal Stephenson2 books2017

Science fiction, about political intrigue.

“The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer.”
from the catalogue description of The Rise and Fall of D. O. D. O.

Start with The Rise and Fall of D. O. D. O. →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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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Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and found family, 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 →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

Reading order →

The Chronicles of the Black TulipSeries

seriesBarry Wolverton3 books2015

“A young boy named Bren sets out on the high seas with a mysterious admiral to search for a legendary map that leads to an object of unspeakable power.”
from the catalogue description of The Vanishing Island

Start with The Vanishing Island →

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 Bright Empires?: The Copernicus Legacy — the closest match to Bright Empires on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Bright Empires?: The Skin Map. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Bright Empires.
How big is Bright Empires?: Bright Empires is 5 books, 2010–2014.

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