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Books like Oz and Lily: 9 series to read next

Oz and Lily is fantasy, about witches and quests, set in contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Oz and Lily is 2 books, 2012–2013.

“Welcome to the most magical house in London, Oz and Lily's family have inherited it together with the mysterious shop downstairs.”
from the catalogue description of The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop

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Tolkien's legendarium
Five Children Universe
Alderley
The Dark Is Rising
Chrestomanci
Watership Down
Tales of Magic
Kay Harker
Charlie (Roald Dahl)

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 →

Five Children UniverseSeries

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 →

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 →

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 →

ChrestomanciSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones12 books1977

Set in parallel universe.

“Greenwillow Books published a US edition within the calendar year.”
from the catalogue description of Charmed Life
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Charmed Life →

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 →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

About friendship.

“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 →

Kay HarkerSeries

seriesJohn Masefield2 books1927

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in british isles.

“The treasure is also sought by a coven of witches who are seeking it for their own ends.”
from the catalogue description of The Midnight Folk

Start with The Midnight Folk →

Charlie (Roald Dahl)Series

seriesRoald Dahl6 books1964

Funny in tone, about coming of age.

Start with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory →

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 Oz and Lily?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Oz and Lily on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Oz and Lily?: The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Oz and Lily.
How big is Oz and Lily?: Oz and Lily is 2 books, 2012–2013.
Is Oz and Lily finished?: Yes — 2 books, 2012–2013.

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