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Books like Gulliver's Travels: 9 series to read next

Gulliver's Travels is satire. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Gulliver's Travels is 27 books, 1726–2020.

“Ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver survives a shipwreck and wakes bound to the ground by a net, encircled by people less than six inches tall.”
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Flatland
Illuminatus
Pym
Erewhon
The Mouse That Roared
Hainish
Bartimaeus
Malazan
Herland

FlatlandSeries

seriesEdwin A. Abbott & Ian Stewart2 books1884

Science fiction, set in otherworld.

“Ian Stewart's 2001 Flatterland follows a descendant of that narrator on a tour of stranger geometries, from curved and multidimensional space to relativity, as a knowing homage to Abbott's original.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions →

IlluminatusSeries

seriesRobert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea8 books1975

Postmodern.

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PymSeries

seriesEdgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne & Mat Johnson5 books1838

Set in arctic & antarctica and 19th century.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

ErewhonSeries

seriesSamuel Butler4 books1872

Reflective in tone.

Start with Erewhon, or, Over the Range →

The Mouse That RoaredSeries

seriesLeonard Wibberley6 books1955

Humor, set in mid 20th century.

“The 1955 novel uses Fenwick's mismatched ambitions to poke fun at Cold War politics and the nuclear arms race, and Wibberley kept the joke going across four more novels into the 1970s.”
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Start with The Mouse That Roared →

HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

Reflective in tone, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
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Start with Rocannon's World →

BartimaeusSeries

seriesJonathan Stroud4 books2003

Alternate history, about wizards and demons, set in british isles.

Start with The Amulet of Samarkand →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, 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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HerlandSeries

seriesCharlotte Perkins Gilman2 books1915

Reflective in tone, about gender and society, set in early 20th century.

Start with Herland →

Why these

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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 Gulliver's Travels?: Flatland — the closest match to Gulliver's Travels on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Gulliver's Travels?: Gulliver's Travels. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Gulliver's Travels.
How big is Gulliver's Travels?: Gulliver's Travels is 27 books, 1726–2020.

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