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Books like Defy the Night: 9 series to read next

Defy the Night is fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Defy the Night is 3 books, 2021–2024.

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World of Ice and Fire
The Prison Healer
Cosmere
An Ember in the Ashes
The Bridge Kingdom
Malazan
Red Queen
Grishaverse
Shattered Sea

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war.

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

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The Prison HealerSeries

seriesLynette Noni3 books2021

Epic fantasy, about revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Prison Healer →

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 →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

The Bridge KingdomSeries

seriesDanielle L. Jensen7 books2018

About war.

“The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Bridge Kingdom →

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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Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Dystopia, dark in tone.

“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 →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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Shattered SeaSeries

seriesJoe Abercrombie4 books2014

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about coming of age.

“Yarvi, el hijo menor del rey, nació con una malformación en una mano que ha llevado a todo el mundo, incluso a su propio padre, a considerarlo «medio hombre».”
from the catalogue description of Half a King
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Start with Half a King →

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 Defy the Night?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to Defy the Night on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Defy the Night?: Defy the Night. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Defy the Night.
How big is Defy the Night?: Defy the Night is 3 books, 2021–2024.

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