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Books like The Chronos Chronicles: 9 series to read next

The Chronos Chronicles 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 Chronos Chronicles is 3 books, 2024–2026.

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The Kingkiller Chronicle
Kyralia series
Earthsea
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Fionavar Universe
Wizard World
Ile-Rien
Witch World
The Riftwar

The Kingkiller ChronicleSeries

seriesPatrick Rothfuss8 books2002

“The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 2007 and 2011.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Name of the Wind →

Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
from the catalogue description

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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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) →

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 →

Wizard WorldSeries

seriesRoger Zelazny & Kelly McCullough3 books1980

About identity.

“Torn between the two, Pol has to master an art he was never trained for in order to survive his own inheritance.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Changeling →

Ile-RienSeries

seriesMartha Wells12 books1993

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The Ile-Rien books are a series of fantasy novels by Martha Wells set in the fictional country of Ile-Rien.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Element of Fire →

Witch WorldUniverse

universe106 books1963

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Step through the Siege Perilous — the standing stone that answers only the hunted, those with nowhere left to run — and the fugitive is delivered not into death but into another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
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 Chronos Chronicles?: The Kingkiller Chronicle — the closest match to The Chronos Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Chronos Chronicles?: Time-Marked Warlock. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Chronos Chronicles.
How big is The Chronos Chronicles?: The Chronos Chronicles is 3 books, 2024–2026.

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