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Books like Caspak Universe: 9 series to read next

Caspak Universe is adventure and fantasy, about survival, set in lost world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Caspak Universe is 4 books, 1918–2025.

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Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar universe
Walter Goodwin
Allan Quatermain
Aia
Nicholas Graydon
Cavor
Monella
Watership Down

TarzanUniverse

universe100 books1912

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar universeSeries

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Christopher Paul Carey, John Eric Holmes, uncredited, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, F. Paul Wilson, Lee Strong, Mercedes Lackey & Mike Wolfer24 books1922

Set in underground & caves.

Start with Pellucidar: Dawn of the Deathslayer →

Walter GoodwinSeries

seriesA. Merritt3 books1918

Eerie in tone.

“The two books follow Goodwin from one uncanny expedition to the next rather than forming a tightly plotted continuing saga.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Moon Pool →

Allan QuatermainSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard, Jean Francis Webb & Thomas Kent Miller25 books1885

Set in africa and 19th century.

“An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Marie →

AiaSeries

seriesE. Charles Vivian2 books1923

Horror, eerie in tone, about addiction.

“Marshall's expedition leads him to a hidden valley whose inhabitants are descended from ancient Chaldean colonists.”
from the catalogue description of Fields of Sleep

Start with Fields of Sleep →

Nicholas GraydonSeries

seriesA. Merritt3 books1923

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in lost world.

“The pairing forms a classic lost-world adventure from the pulp era.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Face in the Abyss →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

About space exploration and aliens, set in the moon.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The First Men in the Moon →

MonellaSeries

seriesFrank Aubrey3 books1896

Set in latin america and 19th century.

“Frank Aubrey's Monella novels are Victorian-era lost-world adventures built around a recurring, sorceress-like figure named Monella, encountered by different explorers in hidden regions of South America and a submerged Atlantis.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Devil-Tree of El Dorado →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests, set in countryside & village and our world.

“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 →

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.

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What should I read after Caspak Universe?: Tarzan — the closest match to Caspak Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Caspak Universe?: Caspak Universe is 4 books, 1918–2025.

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