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Books like Hell's Library: 9 series to read next

Hell's Library is fantasy, set in afterlife & underworld. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Hell's Library is 3 books, 2019–2021.

“Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside.”
from the catalogue description of The Library of the Unwritten

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Good Omens
Karou
Worldquake
Incarnations of Immortality
Chrestomanci
Dragonslayer / The Chronicles of Kazam
American Gods
Sylvie
His Dark Materials

Good OmensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett2 books1990

Humor, funny in tone, about prophecy, set in british isles.

Start with Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

Emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

WorldquakeSeries

seriesScarlett Thomas3 books2017

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

Start with Dragon's Green →

Incarnations of ImmortalitySeries

seriesPiers Anthony8 books1983

About immortality.

“WorldCat: Zane belongs to a world in which the scientific revolution has been followed by the revolution of magic, and he is thrust into the role of Death.”
from the catalogue description of On a Pale Horse
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Start with On a Pale Horse →

ChrestomanciSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones12 books1977

Set in parallel universe and british isles.

“Greenwillow Books published a US edition within the calendar year.”
from the catalogue description of Charmed Life
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Start with Charmed Life →

Dragonslayer / The Chronicles of KazamSeries

seriesJasper Fforde4 books2010

About dragons, set in british isles.

“Jasper Fforde's Chronicles of Kazam series follows Jennifer Strange, a fifteen-year-old foundling running a magical employment agency in an alternate Britain where magic is fading, who unexpectedly becomes the last Dragonslayer.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Last Dragonslayer →

American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

Mythic fantasy, set in our world.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

SylvieSeries

seriesRoderick Townley3 books2001

“Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.”
from the catalogue description of The Great Good Thing

Start with The Great Good Thing →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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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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 Hell's Library?: Good Omens — the closest match to Hell's Library on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Hell's Library?: The Library of the Unwritten. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Hell's Library.
How big is Hell's Library?: Hell's Library is 3 books, 2019–2021.

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