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Books like The Indigo Chronicles: 9 series to read next

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

The Indigo Chronicles is 3 books, 2019–2021.

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Kairos
His Dark Materials
The Mortal Instruments
Peter Pan
Fionavar Universe
The Last Descendants
Karou
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Mythago Wood

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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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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The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

“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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Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peter Pan →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

The Last DescendantsSeries

seriesCatherine Banner3 books2008

Fantasy, about coming of age and family secrets, set in secondary world.

“The first book, The Eyes of a King, became the first part of the series The Last Descendants.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Eyes of a King →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

Fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

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 →

Mythago WoodSeries

seriesRobert Holdstock7 books1984

Mythic fantasy, eerie in tone, set in british isles.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mythago Wood →

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 Indigo Chronicles?: Kairos — the closest match to The Indigo Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Indigo Chronicles?: The Path Keeper. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Indigo Chronicles.
How big is The Indigo Chronicles?: The Indigo Chronicles is 3 books, 2019–2021.

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