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Books like Janitors: 9 series to read next

Janitors is fantasy, set in our world and contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Janitors is 8 books, 2011–2025.

“Are you easily distracted while listening to your English teacher?”
from the catalogue description

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Artemis Fowl
Watership Down
Tolkien's legendarium
Young Wizards
Narnia
Charlie Bone Universe
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Revenge of Magic
His Dark Materials

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 survival 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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

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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Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about wizards and coming of age, set in contemporary and our world.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Charlie Bone UniverseSeries

seriesJenny Nimmo & uncredited14 books2002

Set in british isles.

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The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Portal fantasy.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

The Revenge of MagicSeries

seriesJames Riley5 books2019

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about magic schools, set in contemporary and our world.

“Thirteen years ago, books of magic were discovered in various sites around the world alongside the bones of dragons.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Revenge of Magic →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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 Janitors?: Artemis Fowl — the closest match to Janitors on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Janitors?: Janitors. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Janitors.
How big is Janitors?: Janitors is 8 books, 2011–2025.

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