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Books like Mystique: 9 series to read next

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

Mystique is 3 books, 2005–2008.

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The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
American Gods
The Sisters Grimm
Watership Down
Ayesha
Key Trilogy
Five Children Universe
The Dark Is Rising
Kairos

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

seriesMichael Scott15 books2007

About immortality and wizards.

“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 →

American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

Mythic fantasy.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

The Sisters GrimmSeries

seriesMichael Buckley9 books2005

Fairy tale retelling and mystery & detective.

“Summary from copyright page: Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother whom they have always believed to be dead.”
from the catalogue description of The Fairy-Tale Detectives
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Start with The Fairy-Tale Detectives →

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 →

AyeshaSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard, Don Ward & Peter Tremayne8 books1886

About immortality.

“The Ayesha books follow H. Rider Haggard's immortal sorceress-queen Ayesha, introduced in his 1887 novel She as the ruler of a hidden civilization who has waited millennia for her lost love to be reborn.”
from the catalogue description

Start with She →

Key TrilogySeries

seriesNora Roberts3 books2003

Fantasy, about quests, set in our world and contemporary.

“Nora Roberts's Key Trilogy follows three modern women recruited to recover a set of lost keys that can free the trapped souls of three demigoddesses, opening with Key of Light.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Key of Light →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“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 →

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 →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

Reading order →

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 Mystique?: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel — the closest match to Mystique on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mystique?: Gene of Isis. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mystique.
How big is Mystique?: Mystique is 3 books, 2005–2008.

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