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Books like Dreams and Shadows: 9 series to read next

Dreams and Shadows is set in contemporary and our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dreams and Shadows is 3 books, 2013–2018.

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American Gods
Modern Tale of Faerie
The Legendborn Cycle
The Demon's Lexicon
London Below
The World of Skulduggery Pleasant
Knights of the Borrowed Dark
Dante Valentine
Alex Stern

American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

About gods.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

Start with Tithe →

The Legendborn CycleSeries

seriesTracy Deonn3 books2020

Tense in tone, set in 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 →

The Demon's LexiconSeries

seriesSarah Rees Brennan3 books2009

Tense in tone.

Start with The Demon's Lexicon →

London BelowSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman5 books1996

About transported to another world, set in british isles and underground & caves.

“Most notable is the appearance of the Floating Market at Harrods rather than under Battersea power station.”
from the catalogue description of Neverwhere

Start with Neverwhere →

The World of Skulduggery PleasantSeries

seriesDerek Landy38 books2007

Adventurous in tone.

“None require following a separate ongoing plot of their own.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Across a Dark Plain →

Knights of the Borrowed DarkSeries

seriesDave Rudden3 books2016

About monster hunting and chosen one, set in british isles.

“Denizen Hardwick lost both his parents at an early age.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Knights of the Borrowed Dark →

Dante ValentineSeries

seriesLilith Saintcrow6 books2006

Tense in tone.

“Working for the Devil opens Lilith Saintcrow's Dante Valentine series with Dante, a necromancer-for-hire who reluctantly takes a job from the Devil himself: kill a rogue demon, Vardimal Santino, in exchange for her life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Working for the Devil →

Alex SternSeries

seriesLeigh Bardugo4 books2019

Urban fantasy and dark fantasy, set in contemporary and big city.

“The opening novel, Ninth House, establishes her as an outsider gifted with the ability to see ghosts; the sequels continue her investigation into the societies' abuses and the murder that first drew her into Lethe's world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ninth House →

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 Dreams and Shadows?: American Gods — the closest match to Dreams and Shadows on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dreams and Shadows?: Dreams and Shadows. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dreams and Shadows.
How big is Dreams and Shadows?: Dreams and Shadows is 3 books, 2013–2018.

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