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Books like Mystic Isles: 9 series to read next

Mystic Isles is fantasy, about magical artifacts and quests, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Mystic Isles is 4 books, 2007–2014.

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Tolkien's legendarium
His Dark Materials
Narnia
Guardians Trilogy (Nora Roberts)
Celestial Kingdom
Watership Down
Sparhawk
Shannara
Atlantis (Gena Showalter)

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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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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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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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Guardians Trilogy (Nora Roberts)Series

seriesNora Roberts3 books2015

Set in mediterranean.

“Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings.”
from the catalogue description of Stars of Fortune

Start with Stars of Fortune →

Celestial KingdomSeries

seriesSue Lynn Tan4 books2022

Mythic fantasy, about gods, set in secondary world.

“Sue Lynn Tan's Celestial Kingdom duology reimagines the Chinese legend of the moon goddess Chang'e, following her daughter Xingyin as she seeks to free her mother from an enchantment binding her to the moon.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Daughter of the Moon Goddess →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and 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 →

SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
from the catalogue description

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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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Atlantis (Gena Showalter)Series

seriesGena Showalter5 books2005

Fantasy and paranormal romance, adventurous in tone.

Start with Heart of the Dragon →

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 Mystic Isles?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Mystic Isles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mystic Isles?: Mystic Isle. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mystic Isles.
How big is Mystic Isles?: Mystic Isles is 4 books, 2007–2014.

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