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Books like Red Queen: 9 series to read next

Red Queen is fantasy and dystopia, about rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Red Queen is 14 books, 2015–2019.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

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An Ember in the Ashes
World of Ice and Fire
Grishaverse
Shattered Sea
Legacy of Orisha
The Prison Healer
Malazan
The Poppy War
Cosmere

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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Shattered SeaSeries

seriesJoe Abercrombie4 books2014

Epic fantasy, about coming of age.

“Yarvi, el hijo menor del rey, nació con una malformación en una mano que ha llevado a todo el mundo, incluso a su propio padre, a considerarlo «medio hombre».”
from the catalogue description of Half a King
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Start with Half a King →

Legacy of OrishaSeries

seriesTomi Adeyemi3 books2018

Epic fantasy.

“Tomi Adeyemi's Legacy of Orïsha trilogy opens with Children of Blood and Bone, following Zélie, a girl from a persecuted caste of former magic-users, on a quest to restore magic to a kingdom that outlawed and hunted her people.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Children of Blood and Bone →

The Prison HealerSeries

seriesLynette Noni3 books2021

Epic fantasy, about revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Prison Healer →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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The Poppy WarSeries

seriesR. F. Kuang4 books2018

Grimdark and epic fantasy.

“The Poppy War follows Rin, a war orphan who tests into an elite military academy and discovers a talent for shamanic power tied to a pantheon of vengeful gods.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Poppy War →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

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 Red Queen?: An Ember in the Ashes — the closest match to Red Queen on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Red Queen?: Queen Song. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Red Queen.
How big is Red Queen?: Red Queen is 14 books, 2015–2019.

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