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Books like Nightlord: 9 series to read next

Nightlord is 9 books, 2006–2023.

Earthsea
Grishaverse
Tolkien's legendarium
Cosmere
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
World of Ice and Fire
Shannara
Noble Dead
Sword of Truth

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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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.”
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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“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.”
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Noble DeadUniverse

universe31 books2003

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“A woman makes her living slaying vampires that were never there — staged frauds, a wooden stake, a frightened village glad to pay.”
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Sword of TruthUniverse

universe27 books1994

Epic fantasy.

“Truth is a blade, and it cuts the hand that grips it carelessly.”
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Why these

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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.

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What should I read after Nightlord?: Earthsea — the closest match to Nightlord on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Nightlord?: Sunset. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Nightlord.
How big is Nightlord?: Nightlord is 9 books, 2006–2023.

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