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Books like Sacred Stone: 9 series to read next

Sacred Stone is fantasy and paranormal, set in secondary world and contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sacred Stone is 18 books across 4 series, 2015–2025.

“Sacred Stone is Barbara Hartzler's connected world of paranormal academies, where ordinary-seeming teenagers discover that the power humming under their skin is old, inherited, and tied to relics that open doors no map admits exist.”
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Narnia
Earthsea
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Tortall
Kyralia series
His Dark Materials
Fionavar Universe
The Secrets of Droon
Keeper of the Lost Cities

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

“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.”
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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, 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.”
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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) →

TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in secondary world.

“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.”
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Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Epic fantasy, about wizards.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
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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.”
from the catalogue description

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Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

The Secrets of DroonSeries

seriesTony Abbott44 books1999

Fantasy and portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“On October 1, 2010, the final book of the series, The Final Quest, was released, concluding its eleven-year run.”
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Start with The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet →

Keeper of the Lost CitiesSeries

seriesShannon Messenger11 books2012

Start with Keeper of the Lost Cities →

Why these

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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.

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What should I read after Sacred Stone?: Narnia — the closest match to Sacred Stone on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Sacred Stone?: Sacred Stone is 18 books across 4 series, 2015–2025.

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