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Books like Fern Capel: 9 series to read next

Fern Capel is fantasy, about witches and magical artifacts, set in contemporary, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Fern Capel is 3 books, 1999–2002.

“As the old house reveals its secrets, their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago.”
from the catalogue description of Prospero's Children

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American Gods
Alderley
The Dark Is Rising
Mythago Wood
The Advent Trilogy
Bod Owens
The Books of Elsewhere
London Below
This Poison Heart

American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, about gods, set in contemporary and our world.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

About quests.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Adventurous in tone.

“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
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Mythago WoodSeries

seriesRobert Holdstock7 books1984

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mythago Wood →

The Advent TrilogySeries

seriesJames Treadwell3 books2012

Fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

“Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight.”
from the catalogue description of Advent

Start with Advent →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, bittersweet in tone, about found family.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

The Books of ElsewhereSeries

seriesJacqueline West5 books2010

“When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.”
from the catalogue description of The Shadows
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Shadows →

London BelowSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman5 books1996

About transported to another world, set in underground & caves.

“Most notable is the appearance of the Floating Market at Harrods rather than under Battersea power station.”
from the catalogue description of Neverwhere

Start with Neverwhere →

This Poison HeartSeries

seriesKalynn Bayron2 books2021

Set in north america.

“Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.”
from the catalogue description

Start with This Poison Heart →

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 Fern Capel?: American Gods — the closest match to Fern Capel on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Fern Capel?: Prospero's Children. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Fern Capel.
How big is Fern Capel?: Fern Capel is 3 books, 1999–2002.

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