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Books like The Dreaming: 9 series to read next

The Dreaming is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Dreaming is 45 books, 1990–2020.

“Tim Hunter, destined to become Earth's greatest sorcerer, defends the realm of Faerie from the deadly manticore while trying to maintain a normal childhood life.”
from the catalogue description of The Books of Magic

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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Young Wizards
The Mortal Instruments
Chrestomanci
The Dark Is Rising
Narnia
His Dark Materials
Earthsea
Kairos

Miss Peregrine's Peculiar ChildrenSeries

seriesRansom Riggs19 books2011

Fantasy.

“The first trilogy follows Jacob's introduction to peculiardom and its dangers; a second trilogy shifts the action to the United States.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about wizards and coming of age, set in contemporary and our world.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
from the catalogue description

Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue description

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ChrestomanciSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones12 books1977

Set in parallel universe.

“Greenwillow Books published a US edition within the calendar year.”
from the catalogue description of Charmed Life
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Start with Charmed Life →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary and 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 →

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

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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

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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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KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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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 Dreaming?: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children — the closest match to The Dreaming on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Dreaming?: The Books of Magic. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Dreaming.
How big is The Dreaming?: The Dreaming is 45 books, 1990–2020.

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