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Books like Tarot Academy: 9 series to read next

Tarot Academy is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Tarot Academy is 5 books, 2019–2021.

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Narnia
His Dark Materials
Earthsea
Howl's Castle
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Tolkien's legendarium
Peter Pan
Enchanted Forest
The Princess and the Goblin

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“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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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue description

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Howl's CastleSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones3 books1986

Whimsical in tone.

Start with Howl's Moving Castle →

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) →

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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Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peter Pan →

Enchanted ForestSeries

seriesPatricia C. Wrede7 books1985

Lighthearted in tone, about dragons.

“Patricia Collins Wrede is an American author of fantasy literature.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Dealing with Dragons →

The Princess and the GoblinSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald2 books1871

About quests.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

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 Tarot Academy?: Narnia — the closest match to Tarot Academy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Tarot Academy?: Spells of Iron and Bone. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Tarot Academy.
How big is Tarot Academy?: Tarot Academy is 5 books, 2019–2021.

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