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Books like Kingdom Beyond: 9 series to read next

Kingdom Beyond is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Kingdom Beyond is 5 books, 2018–2022.

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Narnia
Tolkien's legendarium
The Keys to the Kingdom
The Land of Stories
Magic Kingdom of Landover
Silverlock
World of Septimus Heap
Dancing Gods
The Princess and the Goblin

universe38 books1950

Fantasy and 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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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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The Keys to the KingdomSeries

seriesGarth Nix7 books2003

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about chosen one and quests, set in otherworld.

Start with Mister Monday →

The Land of StoriesSeries

seriesChris Colfer13 books2012

Fantasy, adventurous in tone.

“Colfer started plans for a prequel series in 2016, and has since published three books in this series, beginning with A Tale of Magic... in 2019.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Wishing Spell →

Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

seriesTerry Brooks8 books1986

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.”
from the catalogue description of Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! →

SilverlockSeries

seriesJohn Myers Myers2 books1949

Fantasy, whimsical in tone.

“Guided by the enigmatic Golias, who nicknames him Silverlock, Shandon stumbles picaresquely from one literary encounter to the next - meeting figures like Beowulf, Robin Hood, Don Quixote, and Hamlet - and is transformed by the journey.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Silverlock →

World of Septimus HeapSeries

seriesAngie Sage12 books2005

About wizards.

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Dancing GodsSeries

seriesJack L. Chalker5 books1984

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The portal-fantasy setup plays familiar sword-and-sorcery elements for comedy, with the modern-world characters reacting to the fantasy world's rules as outsiders.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The River of Dancing Gods →

The Princess and the GoblinSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald2 books1871

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

Why these

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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.

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What should I read after Kingdom Beyond?: Narnia — the closest match to Kingdom Beyond on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Kingdom Beyond?: Kingdom Beyond is 5 books, 2018–2022.

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