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Books like Mage Winds: 9 series to read next

Mage Winds is fantasy and epic fantasy, about wizards, 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.

Mage Winds is 3 books, 1991–1993.

“Mercedes Ritchie Lackey is an American writer of fantasy novels.”
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Kyralia series
Tolkien's legendarium
The Riftwar
World of Ice and Fire
Sparhawk
Fortress (C. J. Cherryh)
The Codex Alera
Dragon Trilogies
The Saga of Recluce

Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Fantasy and epic fantasy, about wizards and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
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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.”
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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.”
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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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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.”
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Fortress (C. J. Cherryh)Series

seriesC. J. Cherryh5 books1995

Fantasy and epic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about wizards and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words.”
from the catalogue description of Fortress in the Eye of Time
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Start with Fortress in the Eye of Time →

The Codex AleraSeries

seriesJim Butcher6 books2004

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous and tense in tone, about political intrigue and war, set in secondary world.

“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 →

Dragon TrilogiesSeries

seriesMelanie Rawn6 books1988

About dragons.

“The Dragon Prince trilogy focuses on Prince Rohan of the Desert and his Sunrunner wife, Sioned, while the Dragon Star trilogy focuses on their son, Pol.”
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The Saga of RecluceSeries

seriesL. E. Modesitt & Jr.48 books1991

Epic fantasy and fantasy, about political intrigue and wizards, set in secondary world.

“While exiled to Candar, Lerris meets his uncle Justen, and comes to understand his father's ulterior motives for sending him off.”
from the catalogue description of The Magic of Recluce
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Start with The Magic of Recluce →

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 Mage Winds?: Kyralia series — the closest match to Mage Winds on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mage Winds?: Winds of Fate. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mage Winds.
How big is Mage Winds?: Mage Winds is 3 books, 1991–1993.

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