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Books like The Black Witch Chronicles: 9 series to read next

The Black Witch Chronicles is set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Black Witch Chronicles is 7 books, 2017–2025.

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Throne of Glass
Legacy of Orisha
World of Ice and Fire
Cosmere
Grishaverse
This Woven Kingdom
Tolkien's legendarium
An Ember in the Ashes
Shannara

Throne of GlassSeries

seriesSarah J. Maas & Lynette Noni15 books2012

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“As the story progresses, Celaena forms unexpected bonds and uncovers a conspiracy amidst her adventures.”
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Start with Throne of Glass →

Legacy of OrishaSeries

seriesTomi Adeyemi3 books2018

Epic fantasy and fantasy, about rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world.

“Tomi Adeyemi's Legacy of Orïsha trilogy opens with Children of Blood and Bone, following Zélie, a girl from a persecuted caste of former magic-users, on a quest to restore magic to a kingdom that outlawed and hunted her people.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Children of Blood and Bone →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy and fantasy, dark in tone, about political intrigue and war, set in secondary world.

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

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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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This Woven KingdomSeries

seriesTahereh Mafi4 books2022

Epic fantasy and romantasy, emotional in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Tahereh Mafi's This Woven Kingdom follows Alizeh, a servant girl who is secretly the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom, and Kamran, the human crown prince drawn to her despite prophecies foretelling his own king's downfall.”
from the catalogue description

Start with This Woven Kingdom →

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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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

“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 →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after The Black Witch Chronicles?: Throne of Glass — the closest match to The Black Witch Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Black Witch Chronicles?: Wandfasted. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Black Witch Chronicles.
How big is The Black Witch Chronicles?: The Black Witch Chronicles is 7 books, 2017–2025.

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