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Books like The Borrowers: 9 series to read next

The Borrowers is fantasy, about survival, set in british isles, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Borrowers is 8 books, 1952–1997.

“The Borrowers imagines a family of tiny people living secretly beneath the floorboards of an English house, surviving by borrowing pins, stamps, and other small items from the human beans upstairs without ever being seen.”
from the catalogue description

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Watership Down
Bromeliad
Rats of NIMH
Five Children Universe
Alderley
Tolkien's legendarium
Silverwing
Borribles
Ratha

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

BromeliadSeries

seriesTerry Pratchett3 books1989

About transported to another world.

“The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Truckers →

Rats of NIMHSeries

seriesJane Leslie Conly & Robert C. O'Brien3 books1971

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.

“All three carry forward the original's interest in community, responsibility, and the costs of intelligence.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy, about quests.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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

Reading order →

SilverwingSeries

seriesKenneth Oppel5 books1997

About coming of age.

“Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing novels follow a colony of bats whose society is divided along old lines of species, faction, and belief, forcing young bats to navigate conflicts that adults have inherited rather than chosen.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Darkwing →

BorriblesSeries

seriesMichael de Larrabeiti3 books1976

Dark in tone, about coming of age, set in big city.

“The three volumes in the trilogy are The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke, and The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Borribles →

RathaSeries

seriesClare Bell6 books1983

About coming of age, set in prehistoric.

“The books center around a society of sapient prehistoric cats, the Named, who herd prehistoric horses and deer and are in conflict with a non-sentient group of cats called the Unnamed.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Ratha's Creature →

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 The Borrowers?: Watership Down — the closest match to The Borrowers on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Borrowers?: The Borrowers. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Borrowers.
How big is The Borrowers?: The Borrowers is 8 books, 1952–1997.

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