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Books like Matt Cruse: 9 series to read next

Matt Cruse is adventure, about coming of age, set in our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Matt Cruse is 3 books, 2004–2008.

“Airborn opens Kenneth Oppel's trilogy with Matt Cruse, a cabin boy aboard a transoceanic passenger airship, who joins a search for a legendary flying creature whose existence no one can prove.”
from the catalogue description

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Narnia
Tolkien's legendarium
Alexander Cold
Ranger's Apprentice
Jack Christie Adventures
Jungle Book
Young Wizards
Tarzan
His Dark Materials

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

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

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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Alexander ColdSeries

seriesIsabel Allende3 books2002

Set in contemporary.

“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

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Ranger's ApprenticeUniverse

universe42 books2004

Set in secondary world.

“A Ranger is not a wizard, whatever the villagers whisper.”
from the catalogue description

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Jack Christie AdventuresSeries

seriesJohnny O'Brien3 books2009

Time travel and science fiction, tense in tone.

Start with Day of the Assassins →

Jungle BookUniverse

universe44 books1893

Set in jungle 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 →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About wizards, set in contemporary.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
from the catalogue description

Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

TarzanUniverse

universe100 books1912

Adventure, adventurous in tone, 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

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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 Matt Cruse?: Narnia — the closest match to Matt Cruse on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Matt Cruse?: Airborn. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Matt Cruse.
How big is Matt Cruse?: Matt Cruse is 3 books, 2004–2008.

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