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Books like Sorcery Hall: 9 series to read next

Sorcery Hall is urban fantasy and fantasy, about coming of age, set in north america, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sorcery Hall is 3 books, 1985–1989.

“When Valentine starts noticing odd things are vanishing from New York City, she unknowingly summons a wizard from Sorcery Hall who enlists her help in his fight against a dreaded monster of darkness.”
from the catalogue description of The Bronze King

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The Dresden Files
Heir Chronicles
Medusa Girls
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
The Mortal Instruments
The Dark Is Rising
The Dark Elite
Young Wizards
His Dark Materials

The Dresden FilesSeries

seriesJim Butcher & Mark Powers (comics)56 books2000

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with A Fistful of Warlocks →

Heir ChroniclesSeries

seriesCinda Williams Chima5 books2006

Urban fantasy and fantasy, about wizards, set in contemporary and north america.

“Cinda Williams Chima's Heir Chronicles begins with The Warrior Heir, in which sixteen-year-old Jack learns he has hidden magical, warrior ancestry and is drawn into training to fight enemy wizards he didn't know existed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Warrior Heir →

Medusa GirlsSeries

seriesTera Lynn Childs10 books2011

Set in our world.

“Three modern teenage girls meet and find out that they are descendants of Medusa, destined to fight monsters.”
from the catalogue description of Sweet Venom

Start with Sweet Venom →

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

seriesMichael Scott15 books2007

About immortality, set in our world.

“The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Alchemyst →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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 Dark EliteSeries

seriesChloe Neill3 books2009

About magic schools, set in our world.

“Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich.”
from the catalogue description of Firespell

Start with Firespell →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

Set in our world.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
from the catalogue description

Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

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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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 Sorcery Hall?: The Dresden Files — the closest match to Sorcery Hall on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Sorcery Hall?: The Bronze King. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Sorcery Hall.
How big is Sorcery Hall?: Sorcery Hall is 3 books, 1985–1989.
Is Sorcery Hall finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1985–1989.

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