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Books like Dreamwalker: 9 series to read next

Dreamwalker is fantasy, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dreamwalker is 3 books, 2014–2016.

“A strange woman has been seen watching her house, and a mysterious visitor to her school has tried to take possession of her dream-inspired artwork.”
from the catalogue description

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The Curse Workers
Kairos
Reason Cansino
His Dark Materials
Coraline
InterWorld
The Dark Is Rising
The Indian in the Cupboard
Fionavar Universe

The Curse WorkersSeries

seriesHolly Black3 books2010

About organized crime.

“Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families.”
from the catalogue description

Start with White Cat →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

Reading order →

Reason CansinoSeries

seriesJustine Larbalestier3 books2005

About witches.

Start with Magic or Madness →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, 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

Reading order →

CoralineSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell2 books2002

Horror and gothic, eerie in tone.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Coraline →

InterWorldSeries

seriesMichael Reaves, Mallory Reaves & Neil Gaiman3 books2007

Science fantasy and science fiction.

“Michael Reaves developed the story with Neil Gaiman, and Reaves's daughter Mallory Reaves co-wrote the two sequels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with InterWorld →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, set in british isles.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

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 Dreamwalker?: The Curse Workers — the closest match to Dreamwalker on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dreamwalker?: Dreamwalker. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dreamwalker.
How big is Dreamwalker?: Dreamwalker is 3 books, 2014–2016.

Books like Dreamwalker: 9 series to read next

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