Series

Books like Falco: 9 series to read next

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

Falco is 7 books, 2007–2016.

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Earthsea
The Quest of the Riddle-Master
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Last Unicorn
Queen's Thief
Mordant's Need
Cosmere
His Dark Materials
Gormenghast

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards.

“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

Reading order →

The Quest of the Riddle-MasterSeries

seriesPatricia A. McKillip3 books1976

Epic fantasy, adventurous in tone.

“Drawing on Celtic myth, the three books are prized for their lyrical prose and riddle-based magic, and are often cited among the best high fantasy of the 1970s.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Riddle-Master of Hed →

The Kingkiller ChronicleSeries

seriesPatrick Rothfuss8 books2002

“The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 2007 and 2011.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Name of the Wind →

The Last UnicornSeries

seriesPeter S. Beagle8 books1968

Bittersweet in tone.

“The Last Unicorn is Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel about a unicorn who, believing herself the last of her kind, sets out to learn what became of the others.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Last Unicorn →

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

About political intrigue.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

Mordant's NeedSeries

seriesStephen R. Donaldson2 books1986

Portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about political intrigue.

Start with The Mirror of Her Dreams →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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 →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic, dark in tone.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Titus Groan →

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 Falco?: Earthsea — the closest match to Falco on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Falco?: Creeper Shadows. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Falco.
How big is Falco?: Falco is 7 books, 2007–2016.
Is Falco finished?: Yes — 7 books, 2007–2016.

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