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Books like Demonsouled: 9 series to read next

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

Demonsouled is 7 books, 2005–2013.

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Tolkien's legendarium
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn
Sword of Truth
World of Ice and Fire
The Riftwar
Moorcock's Multiverse
Shannara
Grishaverse
Warcraft

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
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Memory, Sorrow & ThornUniverse

universe14 books1988

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Winter comes to Osten Ard out of its season, and behind the cold rides something older than the kingdoms of men.”
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Sword of TruthUniverse

universe27 books1994

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Truth is a blade, and it cuts the hand that grips it carelessly.”
from the catalogue description

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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About political intrigue.

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

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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

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Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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.”
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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

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

universe56 books2001

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Azeroth is a world that has been broken more than once and is lived in anyway.”
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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 Demonsouled?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Demonsouled on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Demonsouled?: Demonsouled. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Demonsouled.
How big is Demonsouled?: Demonsouled is 7 books, 2005–2013.

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