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Books like Dark Gifts: 9 series to read next

Dark Gifts is fantasy and dystopia, about class conflict, set in british isles, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dark Gifts is 3 books, 2016–2018.

“Our world belongs to the Equals--aristocrats with magical gifts--and all commoners must serve them for ten years.”
from the catalogue description of Gilded Cage

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Red Queen
The Handmaid's Tale
Noughts & Crosses
Atlas (Olivie Blake)
World of Ice and Fire
Shade's Children milieu
Borribles
Grishaverse
Дозоры / Watch

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Set in secondary world.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Science fiction, about totalitarianism, set in north america and near future.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Noughts & CrossesSeries

seriesMalorie Blackman & Karen Holmes10 books2001

Science fiction, about race and racism.

“Callum is a Nought - an inferior white citizen in a society controlled by the black Crosses.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Noughts & Crosses →

Atlas (Olivie Blake)Series

seriesOlivie Blake3 books2020

About magic schools, set in our world.

“Olivie Blake's Atlas trilogy follows six magical scholars recruited into a secretive society that grants near-limitless magical resources in exchange for a mortal cost only revealed after they've already committed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Atlas Six →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war, set in secondary world.

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

Reading order →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, set in near future.

Start with Shade's Children →

BorriblesSeries

seriesMichael de Larrabeiti3 books1976

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“The three volumes in the trilogy are The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke, and The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Borribles →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Set in secondary world.

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

Reading order →

Дозоры / WatchSeries

seriesСергей Лукьяненко & Владимир Васильев6 books1998

Urban fantasy, set in eastern europe.

“Each book follows the Night Watch magician Anton Gorodetsky through a case that keeps threatening to unbalance that truce for good.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Night Watch →

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 Gifts?: Red Queen — the closest match to Dark Gifts on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dark Gifts?: Gilded Cage. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dark Gifts.
How big is Dark Gifts?: Dark Gifts is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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