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Books like Paper Gods: 9 series to read next

Paper Gods is fantasy and urban fantasy, about gods, set in contemporary and east asia. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Paper Gods is 5 books, 2013–2015.

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Caster Chronicles / Beautiful Creatures Universe
American Gods
Fionavar Universe
The Mortal Instruments
Wicked Lovely
The Blood Journals
The Wolves of Mercy Falls
Karou
The Legendborn Cycle

Caster Chronicles / Beautiful Creatures UniverseSeries

seriesKami Garcia & Margaret Stohl8 books2009

Set in north america.

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American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

Mythic fantasy.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue description

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Wicked LovelySeries

seriesMelissa Marr17 books2007

About fae.

“Later books widen out to other faerie courts and other narrators drawn into the same modern-day faerie politics layered invisibly over ordinary life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Cold Iron Heart →

The Blood JournalsSeries

seriesTessa Gratton2 books2011

About witches.

“Meet Silla, a damaged heroine who is fixated on death.”
from the catalogue description of Blood Magic

Start with Blood Magic →

The Wolves of Mercy FallsSeries

seriesMaggie Stiefvater4 books2009

Paranormal romance, about werewolves, set in north america.

“Set in the fictional town of Mercy Falls, Stiefvater has stated that the real town of Ely in Minnesota would be its closest neighbouring destination, with the two towns sharing a similar climate.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Shiver →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

Set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

The Legendborn CycleSeries

seriesTracy Deonn3 books2020

Tense in tone, set in north america.

“Tracy Deonn's Legendborn Cycle follows Bree Matthews, a Black teenager who enrolls in an early-college program and stumbles into a secret society descended from Arthurian legend operating alongside her North Carolina campus.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Legendborn →

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 Paper Gods?: Caster Chronicles / Beautiful Creatures Universe — the closest match to Paper Gods on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Paper Gods?: Shadow. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Paper Gods.
How big is Paper Gods?: Paper Gods is 5 books, 2013–2015.

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