Series

Books like OtherSide: 9 series to read next

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

OtherSide is 3 books, 2022–2024.

Tolkien's legendarium
His Dark Materials
Cosmere
Sparhawk
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Moorcock's Multiverse
Forgotten Realms
Rigante
Shannara

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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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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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 →

SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy.

“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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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) →

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
from the catalogue description

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Forgotten RealmsUniverse

universe526 books1987

Epic fantasy.

“Come in from the cold and mind the door — the wind off the Sword Coast has teeth.”
from the catalogue description

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RiganteSeries

seriesDavid Gemmell4 books1998

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Fierce and proud, the Rigante dwell deep in the green mountain lands, worshiping the gods of air and water, and the spirits of the earth.”
from the catalogue description of Sword in the Storm

Start with Sword in the Storm →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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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 OtherSide?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to OtherSide on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with OtherSide?: The Source of Death. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for OtherSide.
How big is OtherSide?: OtherSide is 3 books, 2022–2024.

Books like OtherSide: 9 series to read next

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