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Books like High Demon: 9 series to read next

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

High Demon is 6 books, 2012–2013.

His Dark Materials
Magic Kingdom of Landover
World of the Five Gods
Tolkien's legendarium
Damar
Winterlands
Dying Earth
Faerie Wars
Darwath

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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Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

seriesTerry Brooks8 books1986

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.”
from the catalogue description of Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
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Start with Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! →

World of the Five GodsSeries

seriesLois McMaster Bujold23 books2001

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with The Hallowed Hunt →

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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DamarSeries

seriesRobin McKinley6 books1982

About coming of age.

“Robin McKinley's Damar novels are set in a desert kingdom threatened by invasion from the north.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Hero and the Crown →

WinterlandsSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1986

About dragons.

“Once there, they learn Gareth is the crown prince, acting against his father's wishes, and that the dragon Morkeleb the Black is only one thread in a web that includes a sorceress with a grip on the king.”
from the catalogue description of Dragonsbane

Start with Dragonsbane →

Dying EarthSeries

seriesJack Vance, Jeff VanderMeer, Dan Simmons, Lucius Shepard & Michael Shea27 books1950

About wizards.

“Vance returned to the setting in 1965 and thereafter, making it the first book in the Dying Earth series.”
from the catalogue description of The Dying Earth
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Dying Earth →

Faerie WarsSeries

seriesHerbie Brennan5 books2003

Portal fantasy, about fae, set in fairyland.

“As of 2011, there are five books in the ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Faerie Wars →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

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 High Demon?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to High Demon on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with High Demon?: Demon Lost. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for High Demon.
How big is High Demon?: High Demon is 6 books, 2012–2013.

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