Books like Dungeons & Dragons (chapter books): 9 series to read next

universe · 163 books · 1923

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

matchedfantasy

universe · 19 books · 1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”

from the catalogue description

matchedfantasy

series · Madeleine L'Engle · 11 books · 1962

Science fiction.

matchedyoung adult

series · George MacDonald · 2 books · 1871

Adventurous in tone, about quests and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”

from the catalogue description

matchedfantasy

series · Roald Dahl · 6 books · 1964

Whimsical and funny in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

matchedfantasy

universe · 13 books · 1995

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

matchedfantasyyoung adult

universe · 38 books · 1950

Portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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

matchedfantasy

series · E. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders · 27 books · 1902

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”

from the catalogue description

matchedfantasy

universe · 112 books · 1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”

from the catalogue description

matchedfantasy