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Books like The Jolley-Rogers: 9 series to read next

The Jolley-Rogers is fantasy and adventure, about pirates, set in contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Jolley-Rogers is 4 books, 2014–2019.

“Every full moon, a mysterious ship is seen off the coast of Dull-on-Sea.”
from the catalogue description of The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon

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Watership Down
Tolkien's legendarium
The Dark Is Rising
Artemis Fowl
Pocket Pirates
Tunnels / Circle in the Spiral
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
Alderley
Jonk & Bill

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About found family, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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

Reading order →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

About fae.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with LEPrecon →

Pocket PiratesSeries

seriesChris Mould4 books2015

Fantasy and adventure, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

“In the junk shop at the end of the street is a dusty old ship in a bottle.”
from the catalogue description of The Great Cheese Robbery

Start with The Great Cheese Robbery →

Tunnels / Circle in the SpiralSeries

seriesBrian Williams & Roderick Gordon6 books2005

Fantasy and adventure, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary and underground & caves.

“Will and his friend Chester flee The Colony and set out to find Will's father, in the Deeps, a place even deeper in the Earth than The Colony.”
from the catalogue description of The Highfield Mole

Start with The Highfield Mole →

Castaways of the Flying DutchmanSeries

seriesBrian Jacques3 books2001

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in our world and at sea.

“Brian Jacques's Castaways of the Flying Dutchman follows Neb and his dog Denmark, the sole survivors of the cursed ghost ship's crew, condemned to eternal youth and wandering the world to help people in trouble wherever they land.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Castaways of the Flying Dutchman →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

Jonk & BillSeries

seriesJohn Gordon2 books1968

About magical artifacts.

“In 1981, the book was adapted into a five part series on BBC Radio 4, read by Martin Jarvis OBE and broadcast on 28 December 1981.”
from the catalogue description of The Giant Under the Snow

Start with The Giant Under the Snow →

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 Jolley-Rogers?: Watership Down — the closest match to The Jolley-Rogers on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Jolley-Rogers?: The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Jolley-Rogers.
How big is The Jolley-Rogers?: The Jolley-Rogers is 4 books, 2014–2019.

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