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Books like The Cronus Chronicles: 9 series to read next

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

The Cronus Chronicles is 3 books, 2006–2009.

“After her cousin Zee arrives from England, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and he must set out to save humankind from denizens of the underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.”
from the catalogue description of The Shadow Thieves

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The Dark Is Rising
Alderley
His Dark Materials
Pandava
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Narnia
Artemis Fowl
Samuel Johnson
Watership Down

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Set in british isles.

“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.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Set in british isles.

“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 →

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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

PandavaSeries

seriesRoshani Chokshi5 books2018

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about gods and coming of age, set in contemporary.

“The next books are Aru Shah and the Song of Death, Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes, Aru Shah and the City of Gold, and Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Aru Shah and the End of Time →

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

seriesMichael Scott15 books2007

About immortality and wizards.

“The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Alchemyst →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Set in secondary world.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

About fae.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with LEPrecon →

Samuel JohnsonSeries

seriesJohn Connolly3 books2009

Funny in tone, about demons.

“The comic horror trilogy continues through Hell's Bells and The Creeps.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gates →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and found family, set in countryside & village.

“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 →

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 Cronus Chronicles?: The Dark Is Rising — the closest match to The Cronus Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Cronus Chronicles?: The Shadow Thieves. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Cronus Chronicles.
How big is The Cronus Chronicles?: The Cronus Chronicles is 3 books, 2006–2009.

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