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Books like Ferryman: 9 series to read next

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

Ferryman is 3 books, 2013–2019.

“When Dylan emerges from the wreckage of a train crash onto a bleak Scottish hillside, she meets a strange boy who seems to be waiting for her.”
from the catalogue description of Ferryman

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His Dark Materials
Fionavar Universe
Kushiel's Legacy Universe
Watership Down
Karou
The Mortal Instruments
Tiger's Curse
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Iskari

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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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Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

Kushiel's Legacy UniverseSeries

seriesJacqueline Carey13 books2001

About political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Since the series features a fictional version of medieval Western Europe, it can be considered historical fantasy or alternate history.”
from the catalogue description of Earth Begotten

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Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

Adventurous in tone, about survival, set in countryside & village and our world.

“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 →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

Set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue description

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Tiger's CurseSeries

seriesColleen Houck8 books2009

About curses.

“The last thing teenager Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing over the summer was meeting Ren, a mysterious white tiger and cursed Indian prince!”
from the catalogue description

Start with Tiger's Curse →

Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries

seriesStephanie Garber4 books2021

Romantasy, about curses, 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 →

IskariSeries

seriesKristen Ciccarelli3 books2017

Set in secondary world.

“In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went.”
from the catalogue description of The Last Namsara

Start with The Last Namsara →

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 Ferryman?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to Ferryman on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ferryman?: Ferryman. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ferryman.
How big is Ferryman?: Ferryman is 3 books, 2013–2019.

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