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Books like Liveship Traders: 9 series to read next

Liveship Traders is fantasy and epic fantasy, about pirates, set in secondary world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Liveship Traders is 4 books, 1998–2000.

“The opening volume of Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders trilogy.”
from the catalogue description of Ship of Magic
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Tolkien's legendarium
Cosmere
World of Ice and Fire
The Riftwar
Sparhawk
The Codex Alera
Forgotten Realms
The Ivory Key
Kyralia series

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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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

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SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
from the catalogue description

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The Codex AleraSeries

seriesJim Butcher6 books2004

Tense in tone, about war.

“Jim Butcher's six-book series, continuing through Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, and First Lord's Fury, builds from small-scale political maneuvering into full-scale war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Furies of Calderon →

Forgotten RealmsUniverse

universe526 books1987

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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The Ivory KeySeries

seriesAkshaya Raman2 books2022

About magical artifacts and sibling rivalry.

Start with The Ivory Key →

Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

About wizards.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
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 Liveship Traders?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Liveship Traders on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Liveship Traders?: Ship of Magic. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Liveship Traders.
How big is Liveship Traders?: Liveship Traders is 4 books, 1998–2000.

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