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Books like Dark Glass: 9 series to read next

Dark Glass is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dark Glass is 4 books, from 2018.

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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
His Dark Materials
Fionavar Universe
Cosmere
The Advent Trilogy
The Kingkiller Chronicle
Earthsea
World of Ice and Fire
Keeper of the Lost Cities

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) →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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 →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, emotional in tone, set in contemporary.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

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 Advent TrilogySeries

seriesJames Treadwell3 books2012

Eerie in tone, set in british isles and contemporary.

“Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight.”
from the catalogue description of Advent

Start with Advent →

The Kingkiller ChronicleSeries

seriesPatrick Rothfuss8 books2002

“The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 2007 and 2011.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Name of the Wind →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, 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 →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

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

Reading order →

Keeper of the Lost CitiesSeries

seriesShannon Messenger11 books2012

Adventurous in tone.

Start with Keeper of the Lost Cities →

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 Glass?: The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu — the closest match to Dark Glass on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dark Glass?: Through a Dark Glass. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dark Glass.
How big is Dark Glass?: Dark Glass is 4 books, from 2018.

Books like Dark Glass: 9 series to read next

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