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Books like Five Elements: 9 series to read next

Five Elements is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Five Elements is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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Watership Down
The Dark Is Rising
Alderley
His Dark Materials
Five Children Universe
The Tiger's Apprentice
Tales of Magic
Simon Thorn
The Tapestry

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival, set in countryside & village.

“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 →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, set in british isles.

“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 →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy, set in british isles.

“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 →

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 →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

The Tiger's ApprenticeSeries

seriesLaurence Yep3 books2003

Set in north america.

“Together they must keep the talisman from an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Tiger's Apprentice →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

Whimsical in tone, about friendship.

“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Half Magic →

Simon ThornSeries

seriesAimée Carter3 books2016

About shapeshifters.

Start with Simon Thorn and the Wolf's Den →

The TapestrySeries

seriesHenry H. Neff4 books2007

About demons.

“Max finds a letter in his coat pocket afterwards that leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where other gifted students like him go.”
from the catalogue description of The Hound of Rowan

Start with The Hound of Rowan →

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 Five Elements?: Watership Down — the closest match to Five Elements on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Five Elements?: The Emerald Tablet. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Five Elements.
How big is Five Elements?: Five Elements is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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