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Books like The Hundred Halls: 9 series to read next

The Hundred Halls is fantasy and litrpg, set in secondary world and virtual world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Hundred Halls is 31 books across 8 series, 2016–2024.

“Every autumn the brightest and the most desperate arrive in Invictus, the hidden city where magic is not a birthright but a curriculum — and where flunking out costs you the memory of ever having been magical at all.”
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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
The Riftwar
Discworld
Sword of Truth
Kyralia series
Tortall
Cosmere
Earthsea
Ixia & Sitia milieu

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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DiscworldUniverse

universe84 books1983

Funny in tone.

“Death speaks IN SMALL CAPITALS and rides a horse called Binky.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Guards! Guards! →

Sword of TruthUniverse

universe27 books1994

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

universe8 books2001

Fantasy and epic fantasy, about political intrigue and wizards, set in secondary world.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
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TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

“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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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

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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Ixia & Sitia milieuSeries

seriesMaria V. Snyder12 books2005

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

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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 Hundred Halls?: The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu — the closest match to The Hundred Halls on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is The Hundred Halls?: The Hundred Halls is 31 books across 8 series, 2016–2024.

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