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Books like Dun Lady's Jess: 9 series to read next

Dun Lady's Jess is fantasy, about shapeshifters and identity, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dun Lady's Jess is 3 books, 1994–2002.

“When hikers Dayna and Eric find a young woman naked, terrified, and speechless, they're sure she's the victim of foul play.But the truth is much stranger: she isn't human at all.”
from the catalogue description

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Changespell Universe
Fionavar Universe
Karou
Watership Down
The Kiesha'ra
Narnia
His Dark Materials
The Circle Trilogy
Partholon / Goddess Epona

Changespell UniverseSeries

seriesDoranna Durgin4 books1994

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“When Ehren's sovereign and friend was killed, Ehren, First of the King's Guard, was far away — sent on a wild goose chase by the First Level Ministry, whose number he now believes must contain at least one traitor.”
from the catalogue description of Barrenlands

Start with Barrenlands →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy.

“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 →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and quests, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

The Kiesha'raSeries

seriesAmelia Atwater-Rhodes5 books2003

Start with Hawksong →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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 →

The Circle TrilogySeries

seriesNora Roberts3 books2006

About vampires.

“In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea . . .”
from the catalogue description of Morrigan's Cross

Start with Morrigan's Cross →

Partholon / Goddess EponaSeries

seriesP. C. Cast6 books2001

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Elphame's Choice opens P. C. Cast's Partholon series with Elphame, a woman set apart by an unusual connection to her country's goddess, who leaves home for the far side of Partholon still scarred by a war years past.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Elphame's Choice →

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Dun Lady's Jess?: Changespell Universe — the closest match to Dun Lady's Jess on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dun Lady's Jess?: Dun Lady's Jess. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dun Lady's Jess.
How big is Dun Lady's Jess?: Dun Lady's Jess is 3 books, 1994–2002.

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