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Books like Tarot (Piers Anthony): 9 series to read next

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

Tarot (Piers Anthony) is 4 books, 1979–2023.

“Piers Anthony's Tarot trilogy follows Brother Paul, a would-be priest sent to investigate a religious colony on the planet Tarot where the major arcana of the tarot deck manifest as physical, interactive realities.”
from the catalogue description

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Stephen King multiverse
Earthsea
World of Ice and Fire
His Dark Materials
Tolkien's legendarium
Narnia
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Darwath
Corona

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

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.”
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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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.”
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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.”
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NarniaUniverse

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.”
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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

CoronaUniverse

universe19 books1997

Epic fantasy.

“Beneath the sacred gemstones of the Abellican Church — a ruby to loose fire, malachite to lift a body into the air, the soul-stone to slip free of it — a ranger raised by elves and the woman he loves stand against a waking demon.”
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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 Tarot (Piers Anthony)?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to Tarot (Piers Anthony) on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Tarot (Piers Anthony)?: God of Tarot. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Tarot (Piers Anthony).
How big is Tarot (Piers Anthony)?: Tarot (Piers Anthony) is 4 books, 1979–2023.

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