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Books like Dark Talents: 9 series to read next

Dark Talents is about psychic powers, set in early 20th century and british isles, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dark Talents is 3 books, 2017–2019.

“A young woman must go undercover and use her superpowers to discover a secret Nazi plat and stop an invasion of England.”
from the catalogue description of At the Table of Wolves

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The Milkweed Triptych
The Diviners
Checquy Files
Greg Mandel
The Mortal Instruments
How Few Remain Universe
Five Children Universe
Oxford Time Travel
Lucifer Box

The Milkweed TriptychSeries

seriesIan Tregillis3 books2010

Dark in tone, set in europe.

Start with Bitter Seeds →

The DivinersSeries

seriesLibba Bray4 books2012

Set in north america and big city.

“The plot follows seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill as she helps her uncle Will—curator of the Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult—uncover the killer behind a mysterious series of murders.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Diviners →

Checquy FilesSeries

seriesDaniel O'Malley4 books2012

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

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

Start with The Rook →

Greg MandelSeries

seriesPeter F. Hamilton5 books1993

Science fiction and mystery & detective, set in near future.

“Greg Mandel is a former special-forces soldier with a psychic 'gland' implant for reading emotions, working as a private investigator in a near-future Britain recovering from an authoritarian climate-crisis government.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mindstar Rising →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“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

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How Few Remain UniverseSeries

seriesHarry Turtledove11 books1997

Set in north america.

“How Few Remain opens Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory timeline, imagining a North America where the Confederacy won the Civil War.”
from the catalogue description

Start with How Few Remain →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Fantasy, set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Oxford Time TravelSeries

seriesConnie Willis6 books1982

Science fiction and time travel, about survival, set in europe.

“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Fire Watch →

Lucifer BoxSeries

seriesMark Gatiss3 books2004

Spy thriller and historical fiction, tense in tone, about political intrigue, set in early 20th century.

Start with The Vesuvius Club →

Why these

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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.

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What should I read after Dark Talents?: The Milkweed Triptych — the closest match to Dark Talents on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dark Talents?: At the Table of Wolves. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dark Talents.
How big is Dark Talents?: Dark Talents is 3 books, 2017–2019.

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