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Books like Hit World: 9 series to read next

Hit World is fantasy and science fiction, about assassins, set in contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Hit World is 47 books across 7 series, 2019–2025.

“Somewhere a form gets stamped, a fee clears, and a name slides out of the living column into the other one.”
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Artemis Fowl
Watership Down
Bromeliad
Samuel Johnson
Songs of the Seraphim
Young Wizards
Rats of NIMH
Jimmy Coates
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

About fae.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
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Start with LEPrecon →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests and found family, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
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Start with Watership Down →

BromeliadSeries

seriesTerry Pratchett3 books1989

About transported to another world.

“The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans.”
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Start with Truckers →

Samuel JohnsonSeries

seriesJohn Connolly3 books2009

Funny in tone.

“The comic horror trilogy continues through Hell's Bells and The Creeps.”
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Start with The Gates →

Songs of the SeraphimSeries

seriesAnne Rice2 books2009

About angels and faith and religion.

“Angel Time introduces Toby O'Dare, a contract killer given a chance at redemption when an angel recruits him to intervene in a medieval crisis, sending him back through history rather than forward.”
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Start with Angel Time →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About wizards and coming of age.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
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Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

Rats of NIMHSeries

seriesJane Leslie Conly & Robert C. O'Brien3 books1971

“All three carry forward the original's interest in community, responsibility, and the costs of intelligence.”
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Start with Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH →

Jimmy CoatesSeries

seriesJoe Craig6 books2005

Start with Killer →

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

seriesMichael Scott15 books2007

About immortality and wizards.

“The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012.”
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Start with The Alchemyst →

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.

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What should I read after Hit World?: Artemis Fowl — the closest match to Hit World on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Hit World?: Hit World is 47 books across 7 series, 2019–2025.

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