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Books like Shadows Ascending Trilogy: 9 series to read next

Shadows Ascending Trilogy is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Shadows Ascending Trilogy is 3 books, from 2020.

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His Dark Materials
Earthsea
Kairos
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Queen's Thief
Tortall
Peter Pan
Seraphina Universe
Ixia & Sitia milieu

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue description

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, 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.”
from the catalogue description

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KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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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) →

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

About political intrigue.

“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 →

TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
from the catalogue description

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Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peter Pan →

Seraphina UniverseSeries

seriesRachel Hartman6 books2012

Fantasy, about identity, set in secondary world.

Start with Among Ghosts →

Ixia & Sitia milieuSeries

seriesMaria V. Snyder12 books2005

Adventurous in tone.

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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 Shadows Ascending Trilogy?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to Shadows Ascending Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Shadows Ascending Trilogy?: Into the Shadows. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Shadows Ascending Trilogy.
How big is Shadows Ascending Trilogy?: Shadows Ascending Trilogy is 3 books, from 2020.

Books like Shadows Ascending Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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