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Books like Seven Wonders: 9 series to read next

Seven Wonders is fantasy and adventure, about quests, set in contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Seven Wonders is 10 books, 2013–2016.

“Jack McKinley discovers a secret organization on a hidden island, and becomes the leader of a mission to retrieve seven lost magical orbs.”
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Tolkien's legendarium
Watership Down
The Copernicus Legacy
Pandava
The Dark Is Rising
Alderley
The Indian in the Cupboard
Alfred Kropp
House of Secrets

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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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Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and found family, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
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Start with Watership Down →

The Copernicus LegacySeries

seriesTony Abbott6 books2014

Adventure, adventurous in tone, about quests and magical artifacts, set in contemporary.

“While a work of fiction, it does incorporate some facts about Copernicus's history.”
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Start with The Forbidden Stone →

PandavaSeries

seriesRoshani Chokshi5 books2018

About gods.

“The next books are Aru Shah and the Song of Death, Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes, Aru Shah and the City of Gold, and Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality.”
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Start with Aru Shah and the End of Time →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

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.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Set in british isles.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

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 →

Alfred KroppSeries

seriesRick Yancey3 books2005

“Rick Yancey's Alfred Kropp trilogy follows the teenage title character through three young-adult fantasy-adventure novels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp →

House of SecretsSeries

seriesChris Columbus, Ned Vizzini & Chris Rylander3 books2013

Portal fantasy, about transported to another world.

“Rights to the book were sold in 12 foreign territories.”
from the catalogue description

Start with House of Secrets →

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.

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What should I read after Seven Wonders?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Seven Wonders on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Seven Wonders?: The Colossus Rises. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Seven Wonders.
How big is Seven Wonders?: Seven Wonders is 10 books, 2013–2016.

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