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Books like Rushiebanks: 9 series to read next

Rushiebanks is fantasy, about found family and coming of age, set in early 20th century, hopeful in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Rushiebanks is 3 books, 1938–1992.

“When a young girl's father leaves for a sea voyage, she runs away from her cruel and dishonest guardian to live among the swans of the Rushie River, where she is cared for by a family of the swans.”
from the catalogue description of The Lord of the Rushie River

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Five Children Universe
Watership Down
Bod Owens
Circle of Magic
A Monster Calls
Narnia
The Magician Trilogy
Tolkien's legendarium
The Dark Is Rising

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Fantasy, set in british isles and early 20th century.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

Adventurous in tone, about quests, set in countryside & village and our world.

“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 →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, bittersweet in tone, set in our world and contemporary.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

Circle of MagicUniverse

universe11 books1997

About magic schools, set in secondary world.

“Magic here does not thunder from a staff or wait in a dusty grimoire.”
from the catalogue description

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A Monster CallsSeries

seriesPatrick Ness, Adam Peck & Sally Cookson2 books2011

Literary & general, eerie in tone, about grief and loss, set in contemporary.

“A Monster Calls follows a boy struggling with his mother's terminal illness, who is visited each night by a tree-like monster demanding an honest story from him in exchange for the unsettling tales it tells.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Monster Calls →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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The Magician TrilogySeries

seriesJenny Nimmo3 books1986

Mythic fantasy, 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 →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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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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 →

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 Rushiebanks?: Five Children Universe — the closest match to Rushiebanks on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Rushiebanks?: The Lord of the Rushie River. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Rushiebanks.
How big is Rushiebanks?: Rushiebanks is 3 books, 1938–1992.
Is Rushiebanks finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1938–1992.

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