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Books like Echo: 9 series to read next

Echo is fantasy and urban fantasy, about war, set in contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Echo is 3 books, 2015–2017.

“Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins.”
from the catalogue description of The Girl at Midnight

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War for the Oaks
Modern Tale of Faerie
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Midnighters
The Dark Is Rising
Watership Down
Tolkien's legendarium
The Dresden Files
Borribles

War for the OaksSeries

seriesEmma Bull & Will Shetterly2 books1987

About music, set in north america.

Start with War for the Oaks →

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

About coming of age.

Start with Tithe →

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

seriesMichael Scott15 books2007

About immortality and wizards.

“The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Alchemyst →

MidnightersSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld3 books2004

Science fiction, about psychic powers and coming of age.

“Over the course of the trilogy, Jessica encounters other Midnighters with whom she allies herself.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Secret Hour →

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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

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 →

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

Reading order →

The Dresden FilesSeries

seriesJim Butcher & Mark Powers (comics)56 books2000

About wizards, set in north america.

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Fistful of Warlocks →

BorriblesSeries

seriesMichael de Larrabeiti3 books1976

About coming of age, set in british isles.

“The three volumes in the trilogy are The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke, and The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Borribles →

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 Echo?: War for the Oaks — the closest match to Echo on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Echo?: The Girl at Midnight. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Echo.
How big is Echo?: Echo is 3 books, 2015–2017.

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