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Books like Gilded Duology: 9 series to read next

Gilded Duology is fairy tale retelling and fantasy, about curses, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Gilded Duology is 2 books, 2021–2022.

“Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue.”
from the catalogue description of Gilded

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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
The Immortal Brothers
Stonewater Kingdom
Gormenghast
Folktales
Tolkien's legendarium
Once Upon a Broken Heart
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Grishaverse

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) →

The Immortal BrothersSeries

seriesJacquelyn Frank4 books2015

Emotional in tone, about immortality.

“For centuries, Dethan has been trapped in a fiery inferno for defying the gods and snatching the power of immortality.”
from the catalogue description of Cursed by Fire

Start with Cursed by Fire →

Stonewater KingdomSeries

seriesRachel Gillig2 books2025

Dark fantasy, about witches.

Start with The Knight and the Moth →

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 →

FolktalesSeries

seriesRobin McKinley3 books1978

Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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 →

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

Reading order →

Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries

seriesStephanie Garber4 books2021

Romantasy.

“Once Upon a Broken Heart and its sequels follow the fallout of that bargain across a fairy-tale-inflected world of curses and dangerous magic.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Once Upon a Broken Heart →

A Court of Thorns and RosesSeries

seriesSarah J. Maas6 books2015

Romantasy, emotional in tone, 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.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses →

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

Reading order →

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 Gilded Duology?: The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu — the closest match to Gilded Duology on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Gilded Duology?: Gilded. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Gilded Duology.
How big is Gilded Duology?: Gilded Duology is 2 books, 2021–2022.

Books like Gilded Duology: 9 series to read next

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