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Books like Prospero and Roger Bacon: 9 series to read next

Prospero and Roger Bacon is fantasy, about wizards and quests, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Prospero and Roger Bacon is 2 books, 1969–2009.

“The Face in the Frost, John Bellairs's only adult fantasy novel, follows two aging wizards, Prospero and Roger Bacon, as they track down a rising magical evil that has started to unravel the world around them.”
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Tolkien's legendarium
Earthsea
Sekenre
Shannara
The Princess and the Goblin
Gormenghast
Dragonlance
The Last Unicorn
Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

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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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.”
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SekenreSeries

seriesDarrell Schweitzer15 books1994

Dark fantasy.

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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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The Princess and the GoblinSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald2 books1871

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
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Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
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Start with Titus Groan →

DragonlanceUniverse

universe436 books1984

Epic fantasy.

“The gods have kept their silence over Krynn for three hundred years, and the world has learned to make do without them: the dragons are a nursery tale, the old clerics gone, faith worn down to superstition.”
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Start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight →

The Last UnicornSeries

seriesPeter S. Beagle8 books1968

Bittersweet in tone.

“The Last Unicorn is Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel about a unicorn who, believing herself the last of her kind, sets out to learn what became of the others.”
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Start with The Last Unicorn →

Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

seriesStephen R. Donaldson11 books1977

Epic fantasy.

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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 Prospero and Roger Bacon?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Prospero and Roger Bacon on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Prospero and Roger Bacon?: The Face in the Frost. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Prospero and Roger Bacon.
How big is Prospero and Roger Bacon?: Prospero and Roger Bacon is 2 books, 1969–2009.
Is Prospero and Roger Bacon finished?: Yes — 2 books, 1969–2009.

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