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Books like Schooled in Magic: 9 series to read next

Schooled in Magic is fantasy and portal fantasy, about magic schools, 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.

Schooled in Magic is 57 books across 5 series, 2014–2026.

“On the Nameless World, a necromancer's knife is meant to end a terrified girl snatched out of our own reality — and instead begins the unmaking of everything the necromancers depend on.”
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Narnia
Kyralia series
Tolkien's legendarium
Ixia & Sitia milieu
Grishaverse
Tortall
Earthsea
Howl's Castle
The Riftwar

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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Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Fantasy and epic fantasy, about political intrigue and wizards, set in secondary world.

“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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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.”
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Ixia & Sitia milieuSeries

seriesMaria V. Snyder12 books2005

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

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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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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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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Reflective in tone.

“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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Howl's CastleSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones3 books1986

Whimsical in tone.

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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Fantasy and epic 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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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 Schooled in Magic?: Narnia — the closest match to Schooled in Magic on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Schooled in Magic?: Schooled in Magic is 57 books across 5 series, 2014–2026.

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