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Books like Mither Mages: 9 series to read next

Mither Mages is fantasy, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Mither Mages is 5 books, 1979–2015.

“The second novel is The Gate Thief and the third one is Gatefather.”
from the catalogue description of The Lost Gate

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Kairos
His Dark Materials
The Indian in the Cupboard
Fionavar Universe
Young Wizards
Tolkien's legendarium
Chrestomanci
The Dark Is Rising
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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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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The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

“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 →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about wizards and coming of age, set in contemporary and our world.

“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 →

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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ChrestomanciSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones12 books1977

Whimsical in tone, set in parallel universe and british isles.

“Greenwillow Books published a US edition within the calendar year.”
from the catalogue description of Charmed Life
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Start with Charmed Life →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, set in british isles.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

seriesMichael Scott15 books2007

About immortality.

“The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Alchemyst →

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 Mither Mages?: Kairos — the closest match to Mither Mages on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mither Mages?: The Lost Gate. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mither Mages.
How big is Mither Mages?: Mither Mages is 5 books, 1979–2015.

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