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Books like Switchers: 9 series to read next

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

Switchers is 3 books, 1997–1999.

“Kate Thompson's Switchers trilogy follows Tess, a Dublin teenager who can shapeshift into any animal but will lose the power forever on her fifteenth birthday.”
from the catalogue description

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The Dark Is Rising
Young Wizards
His Dark Materials
Watership Down
Dragonfire
Ingo
The Nsibidi Scripts
Alfred Kropp
Alderley

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy.

“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 →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About wizards.

“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

Reading order →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and quests, 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 →

DragonfireUniverse

universe24 books2008

Paranormal romance.

“Strike a match against the dark and a dragon answers.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

IngoSeries

seriesHelen Dunmore5 books2005

Set in underwater.

Start with Ingo →

The Nsibidi ScriptsSeries

seriesNnedi Okorafor3 books2011

Set in africa.

“The Nsibidi Scripts follows Sunny Nwazue, a Nigerian-American albino girl living in Nigeria, as she discovers latent magical ability and is inducted into a hidden society of Leopard People with its own laws, dangers, and hierarchy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Akata Witch →

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 →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy, about quests.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

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 Switchers?: The Dark Is Rising — the closest match to Switchers on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Switchers?: Switchers. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Switchers.
How big is Switchers?: Switchers is 3 books, 1997–1999.

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