Series

Books like Nessie: 9 series to read next

Nessie is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Nessie is 3 books, 2001–2007.

Five Children Universe
The Dark Is Rising
Watership Down
Alderley
Peter Pan
The Secret of Platform 13
Tales of Magic
Tolkien's legendarium
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century.

“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.

“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 →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and found family, set in countryside & village and our world.

“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 →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peter Pan →

The Secret of Platform 13Series

seriesEva Ibbotson & Sibéal Pounder2 books1994

Portal fantasy, whimsical in tone, set in fairyland.

Start with The Secret of Platform 13 →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

Whimsical in tone, about friendship, set in our world.

“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Half Magic →

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

Reading order →

Chitty Chitty Bang BangSeries

seriesFrank Cottrell Boyce, Al Perkins, Albert G. Miller, Georgess McHargue, Ian Fleming, Jean Lewis & William Johnston10 books1964

Whimsical in tone, set in our world.

Start with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang →

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 Nessie?: Five Children Universe — the closest match to Nessie on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Nessie?: Nessie and the Living Stone. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Nessie.
How big is Nessie?: Nessie is 3 books, 2001–2007.

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