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Books like Dream Lords: 9 series to read next

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

Dream Lords is 11 books, 1975–2023.

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Tolkien's legendarium
Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
Tales of the Flat Earth
Gormenghast
Moorcock's Multiverse
Malazan
New Crobuzon
Stephen King multiverse
Cosmere

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

seriesStephen R. Donaldson11 books1977

Epic fantasy.

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Tales of the Flat EarthSeries

seriesTanith Lee14 books1978

About demons.

“The novels take inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights and are similarly structured as interconnected stories.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Night's Master →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Titus Groan →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, 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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New CrobuzonSeries

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Perdido Street Station →

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 →

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 Dream Lords?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Dream Lords on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dream Lords?: A Plague of Nightmares. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dream Lords.
How big is Dream Lords?: Dream Lords is 11 books, 1975–2023.

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