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Books like Inferno: 9 series to read next

Inferno is fantasy, about redemption and faith and religion, set in afterlife & underworld, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Inferno is 2 books, 1976–2009.

“In Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle send a science fiction writer to his death and drop him into a modern-dress version of Dante's nine circles of Hell, where he must reason his way toward understanding why he has been damned.”
from the catalogue description

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Songs of the Seraphim
Julian
Stephen King multiverse
Earthsea
Thomas Cale
World of Ice and Fire
Black Wolves Trilogy
Narnia
The Drenai Saga

Songs of the SeraphimSeries

seriesAnne Rice2 books2009

About angels and assassins.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Angel Time →

JulianSeries

seriesDarrell Schweitzer19 books1976

Mythic fantasy, about deal with the devil, set in secondary world.

Start with ["Ordnung", so pflegte der alte Ritter ...] (English) →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue description

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Thomas CaleSeries

seriesPaul Hoffman4 books2010

About war, set in secondary world.

“Paul Hoffman's Thomas Cale series opens with The Left Hand of God, following a boy raised by a brutal religious military order who escapes into a wider world he's been kept ignorant of.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Left Hand of God →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war, set in secondary world.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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Black Wolves TrilogySeries

seriesKate Elliott1 book2015

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war, set in secondary world.

“SOME CHOICES CAN NEVER BE UNDONE.He lost his honor long ago.”
from the catalogue description of Black Wolves

Start with Black Wolves →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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The Drenai SagaSeries

seriesDavid Gemmell15 books1984

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

“David Andrew Gemmell was a British author of heroic fantasy, best known for his debut novel, Legend.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Legend →

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 Inferno?: Songs of the Seraphim — the closest match to Inferno on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Inferno?: Inferno. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Inferno.
How big is Inferno?: Inferno is 2 books, 1976–2009.

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