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Books like Generations: 9 series to read next

Generations is epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Generations is 3 books, 2018–2020.

“As part of a nearly forty-book continuity, it reads best with knowledge of the wider Legend of Drizzt saga rather than as a stand-alone entry point.”
from the catalogue description

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Tolkien's legendarium
Cosmere
Paksenarrion
Shannara
The Riftwar
Sparhawk
Earthsea
World of Ice and Fire
Moorcock's Multiverse

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.”
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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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PaksenarrionUniverse

universe31 books1988

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“A sheepfarmer's daughter refuses the marriage her father arranged, walks off the farm with nothing but a good knife, and signs her name to a mercenary company's roll.”
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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and 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.”
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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and 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.”
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SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone, about political intrigue and war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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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 Generations?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Generations on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Generations?: Timeless. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Generations.
How big is Generations?: Generations is 3 books, 2018–2020.

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