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Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons is set in secondary world and underground & caves. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons is 4 books, from 2007.

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Tolkien's legendarium
Shannara
Hyborian Age
Stephen King multiverse
Malazan
Cosmere
The Riftwar
The Drenai Saga
Darwath

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue description

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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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Hyborian AgeUniverse

universe242 books1929

Fantasy and sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

“Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”
from the catalogue description

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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

About war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

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The Drenai SagaSeries

seriesDavid Gemmell15 books1984

About redemption and war.

“David Andrew Gemmell was a British author of heroic fantasy, best known for his debut novel, Legend.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Legend →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

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.

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What should I read after Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons?: Depths of Madness. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons.
How big is Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons?: Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons is 4 books, from 2007.

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