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Books like Tangled Crowns: 9 series to read next

Tangled Crowns is fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Tangled Crowns is 5 books, 2019–2021.

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Queen's Thief
An Ember in the Ashes
World of Ice and Fire
The Powerless Trilogy
The Bridge Kingdom
Celestial Kingdom
Tortall
The Kiesha'ra
The City of Fantome

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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The Powerless TrilogySeries

seriesLauren Roberts5 books2023

“Lauren Roberts' trilogy, beginning with Powerless, was later expanded with a further Fearless duology set in the same world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Powerless →

The Bridge KingdomSeries

seriesDanielle L. Jensen7 books2018

About war.

“The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Bridge Kingdom →

Celestial KingdomSeries

seriesSue Lynn Tan4 books2022

Mythic fantasy, about gods.

“Sue Lynn Tan's Celestial Kingdom duology reimagines the Chinese legend of the moon goddess Chang'e, following her daughter Xingyin as she seeks to free her mother from an enchantment binding her to the moon.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Daughter of the Moon Goddess →

TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
from the catalogue description

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The Kiesha'raSeries

seriesAmelia Atwater-Rhodes5 books2003

About shapeshifters.

Start with Hawksong →

The City of FantomeSeries

seriesCatherine Doyle2 books2024

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“In the dark underbelly of a beautiful city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in love.”
from the catalogue description of The Dagger and the Flame

Start with The Dagger and the Flame →

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 Tangled Crowns?: Queen's Thief — the closest match to Tangled Crowns on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Tangled Crowns?: Knightfall. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Tangled Crowns.
How big is Tangled Crowns?: Tangled Crowns is 5 books, 2019–2021.

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