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Books like Forgotten Gods: 9 series to read next

Forgotten Gods is fantasy, about class conflict, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Forgotten Gods is 2 books, 2020–2021.

“The Hollow Heart continues Nirrim and Sid's story.”
from the catalogue description

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The Powerless Trilogy
We Set the Dark on Fire
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Girls of Paper and Fire
Iskari
An Ember in the Ashes
Folktales
Red Queen
Gormenghast

The Powerless TrilogySeries

seriesLauren Roberts5 books2023

Fantasy and romantasy, set in secondary world.

“Lauren Roberts' trilogy, beginning with Powerless, was later expanded with a further Fearless duology set in the same world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Powerless →

We Set the Dark on FireSeries

seriesTehlor Kay Mejia2 books2019

About political intrigue.

Start with We Set the Dark on Fire →

A Court of Thorns and RosesSeries

seriesSarah J. Maas6 books2015

About fae.

“There are currently five novels in the series, with the sixth scheduled to release on October 27, 2026, and the seventh on January 12, 2027.”
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Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses →

Girls of Paper and FireSeries

seriesNatasha Ngan3 books2018

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with Girls of Paper and Fire →

IskariSeries

seriesKristen Ciccarelli3 books2017

Fantasy, emotional in tone, 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 →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

FolktalesSeries

seriesRobin McKinley3 books1978

Fairy tale retelling.

“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue description of Beauty

Start with Beauty →

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Dystopia.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Titus Groan →

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 Forgotten Gods?: The Powerless Trilogy — the closest match to Forgotten Gods on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Forgotten Gods?: The Midnight Lie. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Forgotten Gods.
How big is Forgotten Gods?: Forgotten Gods is 2 books, 2020–2021.

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