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Books like Snow: 9 series to read next

Snow is fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Snow is 3 books, from 2016.

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Narnia
His Dark Materials
Tolkien's legendarium
Magic Kingdom of Landover
Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales Retold
Fionavar Universe
Howl's Castle
Unicorn
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

“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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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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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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Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

seriesTerry Brooks8 books1986

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.”
from the catalogue description of Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
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Start with Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! →

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

seriesNaomi Novik4 books2015

Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.

“The two books share no characters or setting, only Novik's method of building a novel around one inherited folk tale.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

Howl's CastleSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones3 books1986

Whimsical in tone.

Start with Howl's Moving Castle →

UnicornSeries

seriesTanith Lee3 books1991

Fantasy and portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about identity, set in secondary world.

“Nobody knew where it had come from, or what it wanted.”
from the catalogue description of Black Unicorn
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Black Unicorn →

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) →

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 Snow?: Narnia — the closest match to Snow on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Snow?: Before the Snow. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Snow.
How big is Snow?: Snow is 3 books, from 2016.

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