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Books like Shadow Players: 9 series to read next

Shadow Players is fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Shadow Players is 3 books, 2018–2021.

“Jetta s family is famed as the most talented troupe of shadow players in the land.”
from the catalogue description of For a Muse of Fire

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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
World of Ice and Fire
The Prison Healer
An Ember in the Ashes
Malazan
Grishaverse
Red Queen
Legacy of Orisha
We Set the Dark on Fire

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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The Prison HealerSeries

seriesLynette Noni3 books2021

Epic fantasy, about revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Prison Healer →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy.

“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 →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war.

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

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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.”
from the catalogue description

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Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Dystopia, about class conflict.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

Legacy of OrishaSeries

seriesTomi Adeyemi3 books2018

Epic fantasy.

“Tomi Adeyemi's Legacy of Orïsha trilogy opens with Children of Blood and Bone, following Zélie, a girl from a persecuted caste of former magic-users, on a quest to restore magic to a kingdom that outlawed and hunted her people.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Children of Blood and Bone →

We Set the Dark on FireSeries

seriesTehlor Kay Mejia2 books2019

About forbidden love.

Start with We Set the Dark on Fire →

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 Shadow Players?: The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu — the closest match to Shadow Players on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Shadow Players?: For a Muse of Fire. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Shadow Players.
How big is Shadow Players?: Shadow Players is 3 books, 2018–2021.

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