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Books like The Ancient Blades Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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

The Ancient Blades Trilogy is 3 books, from 2011.

“Now he must pay a fortune to join the criminal operation of Cutbill, lord of the underworld - and one does not refuse the master... and live.”
from the catalogue description of Den of Thieves

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Grishaverse
Cosmere
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
World of Ice and Fire
Sun Wolf and Starhawk
Darwath
Gentleman Bastard Sequence
Tolkien's legendarium
Malazan

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

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) →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

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

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Sun Wolf and StarhawkSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1984

About wizards.

“Sun Wolf's partnership with his lieutenant Starhawk carries across The Ladies of Mandrigyn, The Witches of Wenshar, and further volumes as both are drawn deeper into magic neither originally wanted.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Ladies of Mandrigyn →

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 →

Gentleman Bastard SequenceSeries

seriesScott Lynch7 books2006

About con artists.

“The Lies of Locke Lamora and its two sequels braid heist capers with flashbacks tracing how the gang was trained, escalating into a wider conflict involving crime lords and sorcerers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Lies of Locke Lamora →

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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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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Why these

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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.

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What should I read after The Ancient Blades Trilogy?: Grishaverse — the closest match to The Ancient Blades Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Ancient Blades Trilogy?: Den of Thieves. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Ancient Blades Trilogy.
How big is The Ancient Blades Trilogy?: The Ancient Blades Trilogy is 3 books, from 2011.

Books like The Ancient Blades Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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