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Books like Simon Thorn: 9 series to read next

Simon Thorn is fantasy, about shapeshifters, set in our world and contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Simon Thorn is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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Artemis Fowl
Watership Down
Tolkien's legendarium
Alfred Kropp
The Dark Is Rising
The Indian in the Cupboard
Bromeliad
Samuel Johnson
Varjak Paw

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

About fae.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
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Start with LEPrecon →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival, 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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

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

Reading order →

Alfred KroppSeries

seriesRick Yancey3 books2005

About magical artifacts.

“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 →

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.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

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 →

BromeliadSeries

seriesTerry Pratchett3 books1989

About transported to another world and survival.

“The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Truckers →

Samuel JohnsonSeries

seriesJohn Connolly3 books2009

Funny in tone, about demons.

“The comic horror trilogy continues through Hell's Bells and The Creeps.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gates →

Varjak PawSeries

seriesS. F. Said2 books2003

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in contemporary and big city.

Start with Varjak Paw →

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 Simon Thorn?: Artemis Fowl — the closest match to Simon Thorn on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Simon Thorn?: Simon Thorn and the Wolf's Den. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Simon Thorn.
How big is Simon Thorn?: Simon Thorn is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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