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Books like Ghost World: 9 series to read next

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

Ghost World is 4 books, 1987–2017.

“Like many traditional tales it is full of cruelty, violence and sudden death.”
from the catalogue description of The Ghost Drum

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Earthsea
Narnia
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Tolkien's legendarium
Gormenghast
Grishaverse
His Dark Materials
Howl's Castle
Soldier Son

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, 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.”
from the catalogue description

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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

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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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 →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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

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Howl's CastleSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones3 books1986

Whimsical and adventurous in tone.

Start with Howl's Moving Castle →

Soldier SonSeries

seriesRobin Hobb3 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Set in a new world unrelated to her previous trilogies, the Soldier Son trilogy follows the life of Nevare Burvelle, the second son of a newly elevated Lord of the Kingdom of Gernia.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Shaman's Crossing →

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 Ghost World?: Earthsea — the closest match to Ghost World on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ghost World?: The Ghost Drum. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ghost World.
How big is Ghost World?: Ghost World is 4 books, 1987–2017.

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