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Books like Jerry Cornell: 9 series to read next

Jerry Cornell is spy thriller. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Jerry Cornell is 2 books, 1970–1980.

“Although Moorcock is best known as the author of fantasy fiction and science fiction-based parables such as Behold the Man and The Dancers at the End of Time, here he writes a light-hearted caper that parodies the spy novel genre.”
from the catalogue description of The Chinese Agent

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Tony Hawkin
Laundry Files
Christopher Family Chronicles
Artemis Fowl
The Mouse That Roared
Gregory Sallust
Thursday Next
Secret Histories
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection

Tony HawkinSeries

seriesHarry Harrison2 books1972

Thriller & suspense.

“The hero starts as a normal employee and evolves in his adventures to a shrewd intelligence man.”
from the catalogue description of Montezuma's Revenge

Start with Montezuma's Revenge →

Laundry FilesSeries

seriesCharles Stross22 books2004

Science fiction, set in contemporary.

“There are also elements of dry humour and satirisation of bureaucracy.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Atrocity Archive →

Christopher Family ChroniclesSeries

seriesCharles McCarry8 books1973

Spy thriller and thriller & suspense, tense in tone, about political intrigue.

Start with The Miernik Dossier →

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary.

“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.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with LEPrecon →

The Mouse That RoaredSeries

seriesLeonard Wibberley6 books1955

Satire and humor, funny in tone, set in mid 20th century.

“The 1955 novel uses Fenwick's mismatched ambitions to poke fun at Cold War politics and the nuclear arms race, and Wibberley kept the joke going across four more novels into the 1970s.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Mouse That Roared →

Gregory SallustSeries

seriesDennis Wheatley4 books1934

Thriller & suspense, tense in tone.

Start with Black August →

Thursday NextSeries

seriesJasper Fforde8 books2001

Whimsical in tone, about books and reading, set in contemporary.

“Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels follow a literary detective in an alternate England who can jump physically into the world of books to solve crimes against literature itself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Eyre Affair →

Secret HistoriesSeries

seriesSimon R. Green12 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

Start with The Man with the Golden Torc →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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 Jerry Cornell?: Tony Hawkin — the closest match to Jerry Cornell on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Jerry Cornell?: The Chinese Agent. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Jerry Cornell.
How big is Jerry Cornell?: Jerry Cornell is 2 books, 1970–1980.

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