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Books like de Lint Master Mythos: 9 series to read next

de Lint Master Mythos is fantasy and urban fantasy, about shapeshifters, set in secondary world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

de Lint Master Mythos is 151 books across 5 series, 1977–2025.

“Newford you find by ear — a fiddle tune drifting up from a subway grate, a story a friend swears is true, the particular hush of an alley where the streetlight never quite reaches.”
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The Morganville Vampires
The Legendborn Cycle
Modern Tale of Faerie
Grishaverse
The Curse Workers
The Mortal Instruments
Midnighters
His Dark Materials
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The Morganville VampiresSeries

seriesRachel Caine40 books2006

About vampires.

“The novels feature Claire Danvers, a student at Texas Prairie University, and her housemates in the vampire-controlled city of Morganville, Texas.”
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Start with Glass Houses →

The Legendborn CycleSeries

seriesTracy Deonn3 books2020

Urban fantasy, tense in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“Tracy Deonn's Legendborn Cycle follows Bree Matthews, a Black teenager who enrolls in an early-college program and stumbles into a secret society descended from Arthurian legend operating alongside her North Carolina campus.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Legendborn →

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

Urban fantasy and fantasy, about coming of age and fae, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Tithe →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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The Curse WorkersSeries

seriesHolly Black3 books2010

About family secrets and curses.

“Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families.”
from the catalogue description

Start with White Cat →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and 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.”
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MidnightersSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld3 books2004

Science fiction, about psychic powers.

“Over the course of the trilogy, Jessica encounters other Midnighters with whom she allies herself.”
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Start with The Secret Hour →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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

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NeedSeries

seriesCarrie Jones4 books2009

Urban fantasy, tense in tone, about fae, set in contemporary and north america.

“The focus of the story is a teenage girl named Zara, who joins a struggle against a society of malicious pixies.”
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Start with Need →

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 de Lint Master Mythos?: The Morganville Vampires — the closest match to de Lint Master Mythos on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is de Lint Master Mythos?: de Lint Master Mythos is 151 books across 5 series, 1977–2025.

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