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Books like Deepest Dungeon: 9 series to read next

Deepest Dungeon is fantasy and litrpg, set in secondary world and underground & caves. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Deepest Dungeon is 2 books, 2020–2021.

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Darwath
Shannara
Stephen King multiverse
Cosmere
Deltora milieu
His Dark Materials
The Wind on Fire
Malazan
Kingdom (Cynthia Voigt)

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“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 →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

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 →

Deltora milieuSeries

seriesEmily Rodda & Marc McBride53 books1993

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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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The Wind on FireSeries

seriesWilliam Nicholson3 books2000

Epic fantasy.

Start with The Wind Singer →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, 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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Kingdom (Cynthia Voigt)Series

seriesCynthia Voigt4 books1985

About coming of age.

“There is much want in the kingdom and the tales of Jackaroo, the masked outlaw who helps the poor in times of trouble, are on everyone's lips.”
from the catalogue description of Jackaroo

Start with Jackaroo →

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 Deepest Dungeon?: Darwath — the closest match to Deepest Dungeon on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Deepest Dungeon?: Dungeons of Strata. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Deepest Dungeon.
How big is Deepest Dungeon?: Deepest Dungeon is 2 books, 2020–2021.

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