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Books like Icemark Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Icemark Chronicles is epic fantasy and fantasy, about war, set in secondary world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Icemark Chronicles is 3 books, 2005–2008.

“Fox 2000 Pictures optioned the film rights to the book.”
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Tolkien's legendarium
The Riftwar
Narnia
Grishaverse
Icemark Universe
Guardians of Ga'hoole
The Codex Alera
The Princess and the Goblin
Shannara

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.”
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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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Icemark UniverseSeries

seriesStuart Hill4 books2005

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about war and rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world.

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Guardians of Ga'hooleSeries

seriesKathryn Lasky & Kathryn Huang17 books2003

“Apart from the main series, there are a few more books and spin-offs set in the same universe.”
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Start with The Capture →

The Codex AleraSeries

seriesJim Butcher6 books2004

About political intrigue.

“Jim Butcher's six-book series, continuing through Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, and First Lord's Fury, builds from small-scale political maneuvering into full-scale war.”
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Start with Furies of Calderon →

The Princess and the GoblinSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald2 books1871

About quests.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
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Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
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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 Icemark Chronicles?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Icemark Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Icemark Chronicles?: The Cry of the Icemark. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Icemark Chronicles.
How big is Icemark Chronicles?: Icemark Chronicles is 3 books, 2005–2008.

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