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Books like Sartorias-deles: 9 series to read next

Sartorias-deles is fantasy and epic fantasy, about court intrigue, set in secondary world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sartorias-deles is 38 books across 10 series, 1997–2023.

“Reach far enough back and the record simply stops — burned away at the Fall of Sartor, four thousand years gone, when the oldest kingdom was lifted out of time itself.”
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Tolkien's legendarium
The Riftwar
Tortall
World of Ice and Fire
Grishaverse
Sparhawk
Narnia
His Dark Materials
The Ivory Key

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, 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 RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
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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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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy and fantasy, dark in tone, about political intrigue and war, set in secondary world.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

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

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Fantasy and 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.”
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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.”
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The Ivory KeySeries

seriesAkshaya Raman2 books2022

About sibling rivalry.

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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 Sartorias-deles?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Sartorias-deles on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Sartorias-deles?: Sartorias-deles is 38 books across 10 series, 1997–2023.

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