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Books like The Dreamblood: 9 series to read next

The Dreamblood 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 Dreamblood is 3 books, 2007–2012.

“Released on May 1, 2012 by Orbit Books, The Killing Moon centers on a series of murders and a potential magic war.”
from the catalogue description of The Killing Moon

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Divine Cities
Cosmere
Malazan
An Ember in the Ashes
World of Ice and Fire
Gormenghast
New Crobuzon
Grishaverse
The Last Legacy (James Logan)

Divine CitiesSeries

seriesRobert Jackson Bennett3 books2014

Epic fantasy.

Start with City of Stairs →

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 →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy, tense in tone.

“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

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Titus Groan →

New CrobuzonSeries

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Perdido Street Station →

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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The Last Legacy (James Logan)Series

seriesJames Logan2 books2024

Mystery & detective, about family secrets.

“Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and – thanks to a duel that ended badly – the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house.”
from the catalogue description of The Silverblood Promise

Start with The Silverblood Promise →

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 Dreamblood?: Divine Cities — the closest match to The Dreamblood on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Dreamblood?: The Killing Moon. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Dreamblood.
How big is The Dreamblood?: The Dreamblood is 3 books, 2007–2012.

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