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Books like Checquy Files: 9 series to read next

Checquy Files is urban fantasy and fantasy, set in british isles and contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Checquy Files is 4 books, 2012–2025.

“The premise of paranormal bureaucracy and espionage continues across the rest of the Checquy novels.”
from the catalogue description

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Rivers of London
October Daye
The Dresden Files
The Curse Workers
The Mortal Instruments
London Below
The Great Cities
Lockwood & Co.
The Dark Is Rising

Rivers of LondonSeries

seriesBen Aaronovitch32 books2011

Urban fantasy and mystery & detective, mysterious in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The author Ben Aaronovitch has subsequently written nine books in the Peter Grant Series, plus accompanying novellas, short stories, comics and graphic novels.”
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Start with Rivers of London →

October DayeSeries

seriesSeanan McGuire42 books2009

About fae, set in north america.

“Young October had to make important decisions about her future.”
from the catalogue description of Strangers in Court
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Start with Strangers in Court →

The Dresden FilesSeries

seriesJim Butcher & Mark Powers (comics)56 books2000

About wizards, set in north america.

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
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Start with A Fistful of Warlocks →

The Curse WorkersSeries

seriesHolly Black3 books2010

About family secrets and curses, set in north america.

“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 →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

“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 →

London BelowSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman5 books1996

Eerie in tone, about transported to another world, set in underground & caves.

“Most notable is the appearance of the Floating Market at Harrods rather than under Battersea power station.”
from the catalogue description of Neverwhere

Start with Neverwhere →

The Great CitiesSeries

seriesN. K. Jemisin3 books2016

Set in north america.

“N. K. Jemisin's Great Cities duology imagines that great cities can awaken as living, sentient avatars defending themselves against extradimensional threats.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City We Became →

Lockwood & Co.Series

seriesJonathan Stroud6 books2013

Ghost stories, about monster hunting and friendship.

Start with The Screaming Staircase →

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
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

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 Checquy Files?: Rivers of London — the closest match to Checquy Files on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Checquy Files?: The Rook. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Checquy Files.
How big is Checquy Files?: Checquy Files is 4 books, 2012–2025.

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