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Books like Once Upon a Darkened Night: 9 series to read next

Once Upon a Darkened Night is fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Once Upon a Darkened Night is 16 books, 2017–2018.

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Tolkien's legendarium
Narnia
Earthsea
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Cosmere
Stephen King multiverse
Dilvish
Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales Retold
Tales of the Frog Princess

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.”
from the catalogue description

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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“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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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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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) →

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 →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

DilvishSeries

seriesRoger Zelazny13 books1965

Sword and sorcery.

“Centuries ago, the half-elf warrior Dilvish tried to stop a dark sorcerer named Jelerak from completing a terrible ritual, and paid for it by being turned to stone and having his soul cast into Hell.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Passage to Dilfar →

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

seriesNaomi Novik4 books2015

Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The two books share no characters or setting, only Novik's method of building a novel around one inherited folk tale.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

Tales of the Frog PrincessSeries

seriesE. D. Baker9 books2002

Lighthearted in tone.

Start with The Frog Princess →

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 Once Upon a Darkened Night?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Once Upon a Darkened Night on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Once Upon a Darkened Night?: Of Ruin and Robberies. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Once Upon a Darkened Night.
How big is Once Upon a Darkened Night?: Once Upon a Darkened Night is 16 books, 2017–2018.

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