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Books like Emily Wilde: 9 series to read next

Emily Wilde is fantasy, about fae and books and reading, whimsical in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Emily Wilde is 3 books, 2023–2025.

“Map of the Otherlands and Compendium of Lost Tales continue her research and a growing entanglement with a rival scholar-turned-fae king.”
from the catalogue description

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The Wind in the Willows Universe
Tolkien's legendarium
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Five Children Universe
Peter Pan
At the Back of the North Wind
Doctor Dolittle
Boggart
Fairyland

The Wind in the Willows UniverseSeries

seriesKenneth Grahame, William Horwood, Anne McKie, Ellen Miles, Inga Moore, Juliet Stanley, Kij Johnson, Lesley Sims, M. G. Leonard, Samantha Noonan & Susan Hill17 books1908

Fantasy, about friendship, set in british isles.

Start with The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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

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Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries

seriesStephanie Garber4 books2021

Romantasy, about forbidden love, set in secondary world.

“Once Upon a Broken Heart and its sequels follow the fallout of that bargain across a fairy-tale-inflected world of curses and dangerous magic.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Once Upon a Broken Heart →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Fantasy, 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

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

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

Start with Peter Pan →

At the Back of the North WindSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald & Elizabeth Lewis2 books1869

About coming of age.

“Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights.”
from the catalogue description

Start with At the Back of the North Wind →

Doctor DolittleSeries

seriesHugh Lofting, Kathryn Knight & Nick Price27 books1920

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, set in early 20th century and our world.

“Lofting wrote twelve novels between 1920 and 1936, beginning with The Story of Doctor Dolittle, with two further story collections published after his 1947 death.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts →

BoggartSeries

seriesSusan Cooper3 books1993

Lighthearted in tone, set in contemporary.

“Cooper, best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, writes here in a lighter fantasy-adventure register.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Boggart →

FairylandSeries

seriesCatherynne M. Valente7 books2009

Portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“The novels follow a 12-year-old girl named September as she is spirited away from her average life to Fairyland.”
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Start with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making →

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.

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What should I read after Emily Wilde?: The Wind in the Willows Universe — the closest match to Emily Wilde on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Emily Wilde?: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Emily Wilde.
How big is Emily Wilde?: Emily Wilde is 3 books, 2023–2025.

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