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Books like The Drowned Gods: 9 series to read next

The Drowned Gods 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 Drowned Gods is 4 books, 2023–2026.

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Kyralia series
Land of Elyon
Rithmatist
The Quest of the Riddle-Master
Queen's Thief
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Tortall
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Earthsea

Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Epic fantasy, about wizards and political intrigue.

“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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Land of ElyonSeries

seriesPatrick Carman5 books2005

About quests and coming of age.

Start with The Dark Hills Divide →

RithmatistSeries

seriesBrandon Sanderson1 book2013

About coming of age and murder investigation.

Start with The Rithmatist →

The Quest of the Riddle-MasterSeries

seriesPatricia A. McKillip3 books1976

Epic fantasy, about quests.

“Drawing on Celtic myth, the three books are prized for their lyrical prose and riddle-based magic, and are often cited among the best high fantasy of the 1970s.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Riddle-Master of Hed →

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

About political intrigue.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries

seriesStephanie Garber4 books2021

Romantasy, about curses.

“Once Upon a Broken Heart and its sequels follow the fallout of that bargain across a fairy-tale-inflected world of curses and dangerous magic.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Once Upon a Broken Heart →

TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

About coming of age.

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, 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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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 Drowned Gods?: Kyralia series — the closest match to The Drowned Gods on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Drowned Gods?: Curious Tides. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Drowned Gods.
How big is The Drowned Gods?: The Drowned Gods is 4 books, 2023–2026.

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