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Books like Serafina Universe: 9 series to read next

Serafina Universe is fantasy, set in north america. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Serafina Universe is 6 books, 2015–2021.

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Lewis Barnavelt
Kairos
The Norumbegan Quartet
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Dark Is Rising
The Sisters Grimm
Menagerie (Tui and Kari Sutherland)
Paola Santiago
Nagspeake Universe

Lewis BarnaveltSeries

seriesBrad Strickland & John Bellairs12 books1973

Fantasy, eerie in tone, set in north america and contemporary.

“Lewis Barnavelt is a lonely orphan who moves in with his uncle Jonathan, an amateur wizard, in a rambling old house that turns out to hide a doomsday clock built into its walls by a previous, malevolent owner.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The House with a Clock in Its Walls →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

Reading order →

The Norumbegan QuartetSeries

seriesM. T. Anderson4 books2004

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

Start with The Game of Sunken Places →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Portal fantasy.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, set in british isles.

“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
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The Sisters GrimmSeries

seriesMichael Buckley9 books2005

Fairy tale retelling.

“Summary from copyright page: Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother whom they have always believed to be dead.”
from the catalogue description of The Fairy-Tale Detectives
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Start with The Fairy-Tale Detectives →

Menagerie (Tui and Kari Sutherland)Series

seriesKari Sutherland & Tui T. Sutherland3 books2013

Fantasy, set in contemporary and our world.

“Logan Wilde is accidentally drawn into the mysterious, dangerous world of the Menagerie when he discovers a griffin hiding under his bed . . . and it leads him straight to the weirdest girl in seventh grade, Zoe Kahn.”
from the catalogue description of The Menagerie

Start with The Menagerie →

Paola SantiagoSeries

seriesTehlor Kay Mejia3 books2020

Fantasy, about friendship and coming of age, set in north america and contemporary.

Start with Paola Santiago and the River of Tears →

Nagspeake UniverseSeries

seriesKate Milford9 books2010

Fantasy, set in our world.

Start with The Boneshaker →

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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 Serafina Universe?: Lewis Barnavelt — the closest match to Serafina Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Serafina Universe?: Serafina Universe is 6 books, 2015–2021.

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