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Books like Jungle King: 9 series to read next

Jungle King is adventure, set in jungle. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Jungle King is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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Tarzan
Jungle Book
Pym
Allan Quatermain
Watership Down
Dirk Pitt
The NUMA Files
Alexander Cold
The Zone Unknown

TarzanUniverse

universe100 books1912

Set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Jungle BookUniverse

universe44 books1893

Set in 19th century and south asia.

“The Law of the Jungle is older than any animal reciting it, and a naked man-cub who wandered into a wolf den at dusk will have to learn every clause of it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Jungle Book →

PymSeries

seriesEdgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne & Mat Johnson5 books1838

Set in arctic & antarctica and 19th century.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

Allan QuatermainSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard, Jean Francis Webb & Thomas Kent Miller25 books1885

Set in africa and 19th century.

“An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Marie →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

Fantasy, about quests 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 →

Dirk PittSeries

seriesClive Cussler12 books1973

Thriller & suspense.

“Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished.”
from the catalogue description of Pacific Vortex!

Start with Pacific Vortex! →

The NUMA FilesSeries

seriesClive Cussler, Graham Brown & Paul Kemprecos6 books2004

Thriller & suspense.

“Lost City finds them investigating a life-extending enzyme discovered deep in the North Atlantic, and the string of deaths and disappearances surrounding its discovery.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Lost City →

Alexander ColdSeries

seriesIsabel Allende3 books2002

About coming of age.

“Walden Media acquired the novel's movie rights in 2006, but no film has yet been produced.”
from the catalogue description of City of the Beasts

Start with City of the Beasts →

The Zone UnknownSeries

seriesPaul Zindel7 books1994

Start with Loch →

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 Jungle King?: Tarzan — the closest match to Jungle King on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Jungle King?: Jungle King. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Jungle King.
How big is Jungle King?: Jungle King is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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