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Books like The Last Descendants: 9 series to read next

The Last Descendants is fantasy, about coming of age and family secrets, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Last Descendants is 3 books, 2008–2011.

“The first book, The Eyes of a King, became the first part of the series The Last Descendants.”
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His Dark Materials
Earthsea
Seven Kingdoms / Graceling Realm
Rithmatist
Tolkien's legendarium
Queen's Thief
Seraphina Universe
Tortall
Narnia

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, 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.”
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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.”
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Seven Kingdoms / Graceling RealmSeries

seriesKristin Cashore & uncredited6 books2008

Fantasy, about coming of age and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Kristin Cashore continued the world with the prequel-adjacent Fire, set in a neighboring land, and the sequel Bitterblue, then extended it further north with Winterkeep and Seasparrow.”
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RithmatistSeries

seriesBrandon Sanderson1 book2013

About magic schools and murder investigation.

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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.”
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Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

Fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

Seraphina UniverseSeries

seriesRachel Hartman6 books2012

Fantasy, about identity, set in secondary world.

Start with Among Ghosts →

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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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.”
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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.

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What should I read after The Last Descendants?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to The Last Descendants on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Last Descendants?: The Eyes of a King. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Last Descendants.
How big is The Last Descendants?: The Last Descendants is 3 books, 2008–2011.

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