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Books like Silver Sequence: 9 series to read next

Silver Sequence is fantasy, about coming of age, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Silver Sequence is 3 books, 2003–2005.

“Drawn to a wasteland of garbage dumps called Coldharbour, six children undergo mysterious transformations and band together to face an unknown enemy.”
from the catalogue description of The Silver Child

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Tolkien's legendarium
His Dark Materials
Grishaverse
Narnia
Earthsea
The Dark Is Rising
The Scholomance
The Dream Fighter Chronicles
The Keys to the Kingdom

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.”
from the catalogue description

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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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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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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
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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The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, 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.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The ScholomanceSeries

seriesNaomi Novik3 books2020

Dark fantasy, about magic schools and wizards.

Start with A Deadly Education →

The Dream Fighter ChroniclesSeries

seriesCalvin Locke4 books2009

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about chosen one and psychic powers, set in secondary world.

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The Keys to the KingdomSeries

seriesGarth Nix7 books2003

About quests, set in otherworld.

Start with Mister Monday →

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 Silver Sequence?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Silver Sequence on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Silver Sequence?: The Silver Child. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Silver Sequence.
How big is Silver Sequence?: Silver Sequence is 3 books, 2003–2005.

Books like Silver Sequence: 9 series to read next

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