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Books like The Iron Codex: 9 series to read next

The Iron Codex is steampunk, about fae, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Iron Codex is 3 books, 2011–2013.

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Stephen King multiverse
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
New Crobuzon
World of Ice and Fire
Rebel Angels (Gillian Philip)
Birthgrave
His Dark Materials

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

The Iron Dragon's DaughterSeries

seriesMichael Swanwick3 books1993

Science fantasy, about dragons.

“The Iron Dragon's Daughter follows Jane, a human changeling enslaved in a factory that builds part-mechanical, part-magical dragons used as war machines, in a Faerie that runs on industrial-age technology as much as spellcraft.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter →

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) →

Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

seriesStephen R. Donaldson11 books1977

Epic fantasy.

Reading order →

New CrobuzonSeries

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Perdido Street Station →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

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

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Rebel Angels (Gillian Philip)Series

seriesGillian Philip5 books2010

Fantasy, dark in tone, about fae.

“The half-feral son of a Sithe nobleman is exiled to the mortal world of sixteenth-century Scotland during a time of religious wars and brutal witch-hunts.”
from the catalogue description of Firebrand

Start with Firebrand →

BirthgraveSeries

seriesTanith Lee3 books1975

About revenge and identity.

“The person: a woman awakening from a deathlike sleep.”
from the catalogue description of The Birthgrave

Start with The Birthgrave →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, 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

Reading order →

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 Iron Codex?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to The Iron Codex on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Iron Codex?: The Iron Thorn. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Iron Codex.
How big is The Iron Codex?: The Iron Codex is 3 books, 2011–2013.

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