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Books like Ratha: 9 series to read next

Ratha is fantasy, about survival and coming of age, set in prehistoric, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Ratha is 6 books, 1983–2009.

“The books center around a society of sapient prehistoric cats, the Named, who herd prehistoric horses and deer and are in conflict with a non-sentient group of cats called the Unnamed.”
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Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Watership Down
Silverwing
Alfred Kropp
His Dark Materials
Young Wizards
Bromeliad
Borribles
The Dragon Chronicles

Chronicles of Ancient DarknessSeries

seriesMichelle Paver9 books2004

Historical fantasy, about quests.

“The books chronicle the adventures of Torak, an adolescent boy, and his friends Renn and Wolf.”
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Start with Wolf Brother →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests and found family, set in countryside & village and contemporary.

“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 →

SilverwingSeries

seriesKenneth Oppel5 books1997

“Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing novels follow a colony of bats whose society is divided along old lines of species, faction, and belief, forcing young bats to navigate conflicts that adults have inherited rather than chosen.”
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Start with Darkwing →

Alfred KroppSeries

seriesRick Yancey3 books2005

About magical artifacts, set in contemporary.

“Rick Yancey's Alfred Kropp trilogy follows the teenage title character through three young-adult fantasy-adventure novels.”
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Start with The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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.”
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Reading order →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About wizards, set in contemporary.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
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Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

BromeliadSeries

seriesTerry Pratchett3 books1989

About transported to another world, set in contemporary.

“The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans.”
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Start with Truckers →

BorriblesSeries

seriesMichael de Larrabeiti3 books1976

Dark in tone, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The three volumes in the trilogy are The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke, and The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis.”
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Start with The Borribles →

The Dragon ChroniclesSeries

seriesSusan Fletcher4 books1989

About dragons, set in secondary world.

“The Dragon Chronicles opens with Dragon's Milk, Susan Fletcher's 1989 debut and the first book in this fantasy quartet.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dragon's Milk →

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 Ratha?: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness — the closest match to Ratha on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ratha?: Ratha's Creature. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ratha.
How big is Ratha?: Ratha is 6 books, 1983–2009.

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