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Books like Rain Wild Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Rain Wild Chronicles is fantasy and epic fantasy, about dragons, set in secondary world, emotional in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Rain Wild Chronicles is 4 books, 2009–2013.

“Introducing an almost entirely new cast of characters, Hobb chronicled the re-emergence of dragons in the Rain Wilds region and examined the reaction of humans to a new predator in the world.”
from the catalogue description
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Tolkien's legendarium
Cosmere
Earthsea
Narnia
The Ivory Key
World of Ice and Fire
Sparhawk
Shannara
The Princess and the Goblin

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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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Reflective in tone, about wizards.

“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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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.”
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The Ivory KeySeries

seriesAkshaya Raman2 books2022

About magical artifacts and sibling rivalry.

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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone, about political intrigue and war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“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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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

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 Rain Wild Chronicles?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Rain Wild Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Rain Wild Chronicles?: Dragon Keeper. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Rain Wild Chronicles.
How big is Rain Wild Chronicles?: Rain Wild Chronicles is 4 books, 2009–2013.

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