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Books like The Dark Caravan Cycle: 9 series to read next

The Dark Caravan Cycle 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 Dark Caravan Cycle is 3 books, 2014–2017.

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Tolkien's legendarium
His Dark Materials
An Ember in the Ashes
Song of the Last Kingdom
Narnia
Grishaverse
The Prison Healer
Raybearer
Earthsea

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, 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

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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

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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

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Song of the Last KingdomSeries

seriesAmélie Wen Zhao2 books2023

About colonialism.

“Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers.”
from the catalogue description of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“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

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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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The Prison HealerSeries

seriesLynette Noni3 books2021

About revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
from the catalogue description

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RaybearerSeries

seriesJordan Ifueko3 books2020

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Redemptor continues her reign as empress, dealing with the political and spiritual fallout of the choices she made, while The Maid and the Crocodile follows a different protagonist in the same world.”
from the catalogue description

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

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.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Dark Caravan Cycle?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to The Dark Caravan Cycle on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Dark Caravan Cycle?: Exquisite Captive. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Dark Caravan Cycle.
How big is The Dark Caravan Cycle?: The Dark Caravan Cycle is 3 books, 2014–2017.

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