Series

Books like Reforging: 9 series to read next

Reforging is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Reforging is 4 books, 2017–2021.

Earthsea
His Dark Materials
Tortall
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Seraphina Universe
The Last Unicorn
Cosmere
The Palace Chronicles
Queen's Thief

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, 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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

About coming of age.

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

Seraphina UniverseSeries

seriesRachel Hartman6 books2012

Fantasy, about identity, set in secondary world.

Start with Among Ghosts →

The Last UnicornSeries

seriesPeter S. Beagle8 books1968

Bittersweet in tone, about quests.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Last Unicorn →

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 →

The Palace ChroniclesSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix3 books1999

Fairy tale retelling.

“The companion novel Palace of Mirrors shifts to a new heroine, Cecilia, a peasant girl secretly raised as the true princess who must reclaim her throne from an impostor, and Palace of Lies continues the loosely linked series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Just Ella →

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

About political intrigue.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

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 Reforging?: Earthsea — the closest match to Reforging on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Reforging?: The Locksmith. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Reforging.
How big is Reforging?: Reforging is 4 books, 2017–2021.

Books like Reforging: 9 series to read next

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