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Books like Seraphina: 9 series to read next

Seraphina is fantasy, about dragons and identity, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Seraphina is 3 books, 2012–2015.

“Rachel Hartman's Seraphina duology follows its titular half-human, half-dragon heroine in a kingdom where humans and dragons maintain an uneasy treaty.”
from the catalogue description

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Tolkien's legendarium
World of Ice and Fire
Earthsea
Seraphina Universe
Grishaverse
An Ember in the Ashes
Seven Kingdoms / Graceling Realm
Queen's Thief
Raybearer

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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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone.

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

universe19 books1964

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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Seraphina UniverseSeries

seriesRachel Hartman6 books2012

Fantasy, about identity, 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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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

About rebellion and revolution.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

Seven Kingdoms / Graceling RealmSeries

seriesKristin Cashore & uncredited6 books2008

Fantasy, about political intrigue and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Kristin Cashore continued the world with the prequel-adjacent Fire, set in a neighboring land, and the sequel Bitterblue, then extended it further north with Winterkeep and Seasparrow.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Graceling →

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

Fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

RaybearerSeries

seriesJordan Ifueko3 books2020

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Redemptor continues her reign as empress, dealing with the political and spiritual fallout of the choices she made, while The Maid and the Crocodile follows a different protagonist in the same world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Raybearer →

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 Seraphina?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Seraphina on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Seraphina?: The Audition. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Seraphina.
How big is Seraphina?: Seraphina is 3 books, 2012–2015.

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