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Books like The Chaos Chronicles: 9 series to read next

The Chaos Chronicles is science fantasy and fantasy, about identity, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Chaos Chronicles is 3 books, 2005–2007.

“John C. Wright is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels.”
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His Dark Materials
The Dark Is Rising
Kairos
The Half Bad Trilogy
Fionavar Universe
Alderley
Earthsea
Magids
Simon Snow

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.”
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The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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The Half Bad TrilogySeries

seriesSally Green4 books2014

Dark in tone, about witches.

“Sally Green's Half Bad is set in a modern Britain where witches live alongside ordinary humans, split between a persecuted Black witch minority and a dominant White witch majority.”
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Start with Half Bad →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, emotional in tone.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

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 →

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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MagidsSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones2 books1997

Whimsical in tone, about wizards.

“Diana Wynne Jones's Magids series continues with The Merlin Conspiracy, following a different young magic-user into the same multiverse of worlds under the Magids' watch.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Deep Secret →

Simon SnowSeries

seriesRainbow Rowell3 books2015

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

“Rainbow Rowell's Carry On follows Simon Snow through his final year at a magical school, where he is the 'Chosen One' expected to defeat a destructive force called the Humdrum threatening the World of Mages.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Carry On →

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.

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What should I read after The Chaos Chronicles?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to The Chaos Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Chaos Chronicles?: Orphans of Chaos. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Chaos Chronicles.
How big is The Chaos Chronicles?: The Chaos Chronicles is 3 books, 2005–2007.

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