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Books like Lucy Nightingale: 9 series to read next

Lucy Nightingale is fantasy, set in contemporary and europe, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Lucy Nightingale is 3 books, 2014–2020.

“Convinced that the only way to get an A on this assignment is to actually talk to the artists, Lucy summons a Wise One to help her with time travel.”
from the catalogue description of The Crystal Navigator

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Tolkien's legendarium
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Watership Down
Five Children Universe
Artemis Fowl
Kairos
Seven Wonders
The Indian in the Cupboard
Tales of Magic

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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 Sixty-Eight RoomsSeries

seriesMarianne Malone4 books2010

Set in north america.

“Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Sixty-Eight Rooms →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About 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 →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

About fae.

“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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KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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Seven WondersSeries

seriesPeter Lerangis10 books2013

Fantasy and adventure, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in contemporary.

“Jack McKinley discovers a secret organization on a hidden island, and becomes the leader of a mission to retrieve seven lost magical orbs.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Colossus Rises →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Portal fantasy.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, about friendship, set in contemporary and our world.

“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Half Magic →

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 Lucy Nightingale?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Lucy Nightingale on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Lucy Nightingale?: The Crystal Navigator. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Lucy Nightingale.
How big is Lucy Nightingale?: Lucy Nightingale is 3 books, 2014–2020.

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