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Books like Dark Divinity: 9 series to read next

Dark Divinity is fantasy and dark fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dark Divinity is 4 books, 2022–2025.

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Malazan
World of Ice and Fire
Cosmere
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Darwath
The Riftwar
Grishaverse
Night Angel
Parallel Universe

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

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) →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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Night AngelUniverse

universe6 books2008

About assassins.

“There are killers, and then there are wetboys — and the difference is that a wetboy never misses, because the magic in his blood will not let him.”
from the catalogue description

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Parallel UniverseSeries

seriesPaula Volsky5 books1991

Fantasy, tense and dark in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Eliste is the pampered young daughter of the vicious Marquis vo Derrivalle.”
from the catalogue description of Illusion

Start with Illusion →

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 Dark Divinity?: Malazan — the closest match to Dark Divinity on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dark Divinity?: Demon's Promise. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dark Divinity.
How big is Dark Divinity?: Dark Divinity is 4 books, 2022–2025.

Books like Dark Divinity: 9 series to read next

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