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Books like The Gilded Ones / Deathless: 9 series to read next

The Gilded Ones / Deathless is fantasy, about rebellion and revolution and gender and society, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Gilded Ones / Deathless is 3 books, 2021–2024.

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Tolkien's legendarium
Grishaverse
World of Ice and Fire
An Ember in the Ashes
Narnia
Earthsea
Song of the Last Kingdom
Tortall
Raybearer

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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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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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About political intrigue.

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

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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

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

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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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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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Song of the Last KingdomSeries

seriesAmélie Wen Zhao2 books2023

Fantasy and epic fantasy, dark in tone, about colonialism, set in secondary world.

“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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TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in secondary world.

“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.”
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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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 Gilded Ones / Deathless?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to The Gilded Ones / Deathless on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Gilded Ones / Deathless?: The Gilded Ones. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Gilded Ones / Deathless.
How big is The Gilded Ones / Deathless?: The Gilded Ones / Deathless is 3 books, 2021–2024.

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