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Books like Mr. Mulliner: 9 series to read next

Mr. Mulliner is humor, set in british isles and early 20th century, funny and lighthearted in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Mr. Mulliner is 9 books, 1925–1959.

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Bastable Children
Good Omens
Myth Adventures
The Wind in the Willows Universe
Five Children Universe
Rotten School
Captain Underpants
Cold Comfort Farm
Brentford

Bastable ChildrenSeries

seriesE. Nesbit24 books1898

About coming of age, set in 19th century.

“E. Nesbit's Bastable novels follow their well-meaning, thoroughly unsuccessful schemes across three books published between 1899 and 1904, mixing believable sibling squabbles with the children's own overactive imaginations.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Story of the Treasure Seekers →

Good OmensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett2 books1990

Fantasy, about prophecy, set in contemporary.

Start with Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch →

Myth AdventuresSeries

seriesRobert Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye & Phil Foglio33 books1978

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Another Fine Myth →

The Wind in the Willows UniverseSeries

seriesKenneth Grahame, William Horwood, Anne McKie, Ellen Miles, Inga Moore, Juliet Stanley, Kij Johnson, Lesley Sims, M. G. Leonard, Samantha Noonan & Susan Hill17 books1908

Fantasy.

Start with The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Fantasy.

“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 →

Rotten SchoolSeries

seriesR. L. Stine16 books2005

Set in contemporary and our world.

“Each book is written from the perspective of Bernie Bridges, a fourth-grader who lives in his dormitory at Rotten School with his pals Belzer, Feenman and Crench, Beast, Chipmunk, Nosebleed, Billy The Brain and others.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Big Blueberry Barf-Off! →

Captain UnderpantsSeries

seriesDav Pilkey15 books1989

Superhero, set in north america and contemporary.

Start with The Really Cool Adventures of Captain Underpants →

Cold Comfort FarmSeries

seriesStella Gibbons2 books1932

Satire, set in countryside & village.

Start with Cold Comfort Farm →

BrentfordSeries

seriesRobert Rankin9 books1981

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

“Robert Rankin's Brentford novels are set in a surreal, comic version of the London suburb of Brentford, mixing pub-culture farce with conspiracy theories, aliens, time travel, and increasingly absurd apocalyptic threats.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Antipope →

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 Mr. Mulliner?: Bastable Children — the closest match to Mr. Mulliner on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mr. Mulliner?: Meet Mr. Mulliner. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mr. Mulliner.
How big is Mr. Mulliner?: Mr. Mulliner is 9 books, 1925–1959.
Is Mr. Mulliner finished?: Yes — 9 books, 1925–1959.

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