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Books like Finishing School: 9 series to read next

Finishing School is steampunk and fantasy, about coming of age, set in british isles and 19th century. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Finishing School is 4 books, 2013–2015.

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Wolves Chronicles
The Anubis Gates
Gemma Doyle
Bartimaeus
Hunchback Assignments / Modo: Mission Clockwork
Frontier Magic
The Mortal Instruments
Stranje House
His Dark Materials

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

seriesJoan Aiken12 books1962

Adventure.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

The Anubis GatesSeries

seriesTim Powers3 books1983

Time travel, mysterious in tone.

“The plot concerns an English professor who participates in a time travel experiment and ends up trapped in the 19th century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Anubis Gates →

Gemma DoyleSeries

seriesLibba Bray4 books2003

About friendship.

Start with A Great and Terrible Beauty →

BartimaeusSeries

seriesJonathan Stroud4 books2003

Alternate history, about wizards and demons.

Start with The Amulet of Samarkand →

Hunchback Assignments / Modo: Mission ClockworkSeries

seriesArthur Slade5 books2009

About shapeshifters.

“A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show.”
from the catalogue description of The Hunchback Assignments

Start with The Hunchback Assignments →

Frontier MagicSeries

seriesPatricia C. Wrede3 books2009

Set in north america.

“Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.”
from the catalogue description of Thirteenth Child

Start with Thirteenth Child →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“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

Reading order →

Stranje HouseSeries

seriesKathleen Baldwin5 books2015

Historical fiction.

“The daughters of the beau monde who don’t fit high society’s constrictive mold are banished to Stranje House to be reformed into marriageable young ladies.”
from the catalogue description of A School for Unusual Girls

Start with A School for Unusual Girls →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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 →

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 Finishing School?: Wolves Chronicles — the closest match to Finishing School on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Finishing School?: Etiquette & Espionage. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Finishing School.
How big is Finishing School?: Finishing School is 4 books, 2013–2015.

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