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Books like Colouring Book: 9 series to read next

Colouring Book is set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Colouring Book is 8 books, 1978–2014.

“A psychological suspense novel about London lesbians.”
from the catalogue description of L'Amber

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Gormenghast
Earthsea
New Crobuzon
Viriconium
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Stephen King multiverse
Ambergris
The Young Elites
His Dark Materials

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Titus Groan →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

New CrobuzonSeries

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Perdido Street Station →

ViriconiumSeries

seriesM. John Harrison14 books1971

Fantasy, eerie in tone, set in secondary world and big city.

Start with The Pastel City →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

AmbergrisSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer20 books1996

Weird fiction.

“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
from the catalogue description

Start with City of Saints and Madmen →

The Young ElitesSeries

seriesMarie Lu3 books2014

About revenge and political intrigue.

“The second book is called The Rose Society and was released on October 13, 2015.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Young Elites →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, 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 →

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 Colouring Book?: Gormenghast — the closest match to Colouring Book on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Colouring Book?: L'Amber. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Colouring Book.
How big is Colouring Book?: Colouring Book is 8 books, 1978–2014.
Is Colouring Book finished?: Yes — 8 books, 1978–2014.

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