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Books like Sandman: 9 series to read next

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

Sandman is 37 books, 1990–2020.

American Gods
Mythago Wood
Dream Cycle
Alderley
His Dark Materials
The Vampire Chronicles
Tolkien's legendarium
de Lint Master Mythos
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

Fantasy and 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

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and british isles.

“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 →

Dream CycleSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft, C. T. Phipps, E. Hoffmann Price, Jack Chapman Miske, Richard Gavin & W. H. Pugmire26 books1919

Horror, eerie in tone.

Start with The White Ship →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

About quests.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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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The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

Gothic, about vampires and immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
from the catalogue description of Interview with the Vampire
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Interview with the Vampire →

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

Reading order →

de Lint Master MythosUniverse

universe151 books1977

Urban fantasy.

“Newford you find by ear — a fiddle tune drifting up from a subway grate, a story a friend swears is true, the particular hush of an alley where the streetlight never quite reaches.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Miss Peregrine's Peculiar ChildrenSeries

seriesRansom Riggs19 books2011

“The first trilogy follows Jacob's introduction to peculiardom and its dangers; a second trilogy shifts the action to the United States.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children →

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 Sandman?: American Gods — the closest match to Sandman on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Sandman?: A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Sandman.
How big is Sandman?: Sandman is 37 books, 1990–2020.

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