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Books like Rotherweird: 9 series to read next

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

Rotherweird is 3 books, 2017–2019.

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The Raven King
American Gods
Mythago Wood
Lewis Barnavelt
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
His Dark Materials
Gormenghast
The Dark Is Rising
The Magician Trilogy

seriesSusanna Clarke13 books1996

About fae, set in 19th century.

“Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reintroduces magic to an alternate nineteenth-century England, centering on the prickly rivalry between the two title magicians as they revive a lost English tradition.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Ladies of Grace Adieu →

American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

Mythic fantasy, about gods, set in contemporary and our world.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

Mythago WoodSeries

seriesRobert Holdstock7 books1984

Mythic fantasy, set in contemporary.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mythago Wood →

Lewis BarnaveltSeries

seriesBrad Strickland & John Bellairs12 books1973

Set in north america and contemporary.

“Lewis Barnavelt is a lonely orphan who moves in with his uncle Jonathan, an amateur wizard, in a rambling old house that turns out to hide a doomsday clock built into its walls by a previous, malevolent owner.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The House with a Clock in Its Walls →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Set in secondary world.

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

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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 →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

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

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The Magician TrilogySeries

seriesJenny Nimmo3 books1986

Mythic fantasy, about coming of age, set in contemporary.

“The stories are inspired by Welsh mythology, with elements borrowed from Mabinogion.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Snow Spider →

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 Rotherweird?: The Raven King — the closest match to Rotherweird on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Rotherweird?: Rotherweird. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Rotherweird.
How big is Rotherweird?: Rotherweird is 3 books, 2017–2019.

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