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Books like Joe's World: 9 series to read next

Joe's World is fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Joe's World is 5 books, 1993–2022.

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Discworld
Tolkien's legendarium
Earthsea
Howl's Castle
Myth Adventures
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Last Unicorn
Forgotten Realms
Derkholm

DiscworldUniverse

universe84 books1983

Fantasy, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

“Death speaks IN SMALL CAPITALS and rides a horse called Binky.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Guards! Guards! →

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

Reading order →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone.

“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

Reading order →

Howl's CastleSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones3 books1986

Fantasy, whimsical and adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

Start with Howl's Moving Castle →

Myth AdventuresSeries

seriesRobert Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye & Phil Foglio33 books1978

Fantasy and humor, funny in tone, set in secondary world.

“After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Another Fine Myth →

The Kingkiller ChronicleSeries

seriesPatrick Rothfuss8 books2002

“The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 2007 and 2011.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Name of the Wind →

The Last UnicornSeries

seriesPeter S. Beagle8 books1968

Bittersweet in tone, about quests.

“The Last Unicorn is Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel about a unicorn who, believing herself the last of her kind, sets out to learn what became of the others.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Last Unicorn →

Forgotten RealmsUniverse

universe526 books1987

Epic fantasy.

“Come in from the cold and mind the door — the wind off the Sword Coast has teeth.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

DerkholmSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones2 books1998

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, about magic schools, set in secondary world.

“Year of the Griffin follows one of Derk's griffin children years later, enrolled at a chronically underfunded wizards' university with a band of misfit students.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Dark Lord of Derkholm →

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 Joe's World?: Discworld — the closest match to Joe's World on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Joe's World?: The Philosophical Strangler. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Joe's World.
How big is Joe's World?: Joe's World is 5 books, 1993–2022.

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