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Books like The Crystal Halls: 9 series to read next

The Crystal Halls 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 Crystal Halls is 5 books, 2023–2024.

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Ile-Rien
Grishaverse
Kyralia series
The World of Riverside
The Daevabad Trilogy
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
The Riftwar
Cosmere
World of Ice and Fire

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 →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

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

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Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Epic fantasy, about wizards.

“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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The World of RiversideSeries

seriesEllen Kushner, Joel Derfner, Tessa Gratton, Karen Lord, Delia Sherman, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Liz Duffy Adams, Racheline Maltese, Malinda Lo, Paul Witcover, Juliet Ulman, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Patty Bryant & Kelly Robson72 books1982

Fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“The wider World of Riverside has since expanded into shared-world short fiction and anthologies, such as Swords of Riverside, contributed to by numerous other writers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Swordspoint →

The Daevabad TrilogySeries

seriesS. A. Chakraborty5 books2017

Epic fantasy.

“Nahri is a con artist and unlicensed healer working the streets of 18th-century Cairo who accidentally summons Dara, a formidable djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism gone wrong.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City of Brass →

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) →

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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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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 Crystal Halls?: Ile-Rien — the closest match to The Crystal Halls on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Crystal Halls?: Shadows in Amber. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Crystal Halls.
How big is The Crystal Halls?: The Crystal Halls is 5 books, 2023–2024.

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