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Books like The Ghosts: 9 series to read next

The Ghosts is fantasy and epic fantasy, about undead, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Ghosts is 63 books across 5 series, 2007–2021.

“Against the magi who trade in such coin stand the Ghosts: the Emperor's nightfighters, a hidden brotherhood of spies, saboteurs, and assassins who move through gaslit alleys and marble palaces alike, unseen until it is far too late.”
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Earthsea
World of Ice and Fire
Tolkien's legendarium
Sword of Truth
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
The Riftwar
Cosmere
Shannara
Forgotten Realms

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Reflective in tone.

“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.”
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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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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.”
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Sword of TruthUniverse

universe27 books1994

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Truth is a blade, and it cuts the hand that grips it carelessly.”
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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

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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.”
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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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Start with The Final Empire →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
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Forgotten RealmsUniverse

universe526 books1987

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Come in from the cold and mind the door — the wind off the Sword Coast has teeth.”
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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 Ghosts?: Earthsea — the closest match to The Ghosts on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is The Ghosts?: The Ghosts is 63 books across 5 series, 2007–2021.

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