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Books like Family Heritage: 9 series to read next

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

Family Heritage is 3 books, 2014–2021.

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World of Ice and Fire
Tolkien's legendarium
Earthsea
Seraphina Universe
His Dark Materials
The Daevabad Trilogy
Cosmere
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Zimiamvian Trilogy

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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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

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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

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Seraphina UniverseSeries

seriesRachel Hartman6 books2012

About identity.

Start with Among Ghosts →

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

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The Daevabad TrilogySeries

seriesS. A. Chakraborty5 books2017

Epic fantasy.

“Nahri is a con artist and unlicensed healer working the streets of 18th-century Cairo who accidentally summons Dara, a formidable djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism gone wrong.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City of Brass →

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 →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

Zimiamvian TrilogySeries

seriesE. R. Eddison4 books1922

Epic fantasy, about court intrigue.

“Dissolution of the realm seems certain as alliances are formed and begin to intrigue against each other.”
from the catalogue description of Mistress of Mistresses
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Start with Mistress of Mistresses →

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 Family Heritage?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to Family Heritage on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Family Heritage?: Beginnings. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Family Heritage.
How big is Family Heritage?: Family Heritage is 3 books, 2014–2021.

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