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Books like Serious Probabilities: 9 series to read next

Serious Probabilities is litrpg and fantasy, set in underground & caves. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Serious Probabilities is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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Deepest Dungeon
Underland Chronicles
Darwath
Shannara
Stephen King multiverse
Deltora milieu
Malazan
The Riftwar
Deptford Mice

Deepest DungeonSeries

seriesG. D. Penman2 books2020

Litrpg and fantasy, set in underground & caves and secondary world.

Start with Dungeons of Strata →

Underland ChroniclesSeries

seriesSuzanne Collins5 books2003

Epic fantasy, about coming of age and war.

“The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats.”
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Start with Gregor the Overlander →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

Deltora milieuSeries

seriesEmily Rodda & Marc McBride53 books1993

About quests.

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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Deptford MiceSeries

seriesRobin Jarvis3 books1989

Dark fantasy, dark in tone.

“Robin Jarvis completed the trilogy with The Crystal Prison and The Final Reckoning within a year of the first book.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Dark Portal →

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 Serious Probabilities?: Deepest Dungeon — the closest match to Serious Probabilities on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Serious Probabilities?: Dungeon of Chance: Even Odds. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Serious Probabilities.
How big is Serious Probabilities?: Serious Probabilities is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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