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Books like The Mirror Realm Cycle: 9 series to read next

The Mirror Realm Cycle is set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Mirror Realm Cycle is 3 books, 2023–2026.

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Ile-Rien
Witch World
The Daevabad Trilogy
A Wizard in Rhyme
Cosmere
Magic Kingdom of Landover
Mordant's Need
Videssos
Queen's Thief

Ile-RienSeries

seriesMartha Wells12 books1993

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The Ile-Rien books are a series of fantasy novels by Martha Wells set in the fictional country of Ile-Rien.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Element of Fire →

Witch WorldUniverse

universe106 books1963

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Step through the Siege Perilous — the standing stone that answers only the hunted, those with nowhere left to run — and the fugitive is delivered not into death but into another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Daevabad TrilogySeries

seriesS. A. Chakraborty5 books2017

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

“Nahri is a con artist and unlicensed healer working the streets of 18th-century Cairo who accidentally summons Dara, a formidable djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism gone wrong.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City of Brass →

A Wizard in RhymeSeries

seriesChristopher Stasheff8 books1986

About wizards.

“Matt Mantrell is an English major who gets transported to a different world where magic works by rhyme.”
from the catalogue description of Her Majesty's Wizard
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Her Majesty's Wizard →

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 →

Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

seriesTerry Brooks8 books1986

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.”
from the catalogue description of Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! →

Mordant's NeedSeries

seriesStephen R. Donaldson2 books1986

Fantasy and portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

Start with The Mirror of Her Dreams →

VidessosSeries

seriesHarry Turtledove14 books1986

Set in secondary world.

Start with A Difficult Undertaking →

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

“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 →

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 Mirror Realm Cycle?: Ile-Rien — the closest match to The Mirror Realm Cycle on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Mirror Realm Cycle?: The Pomegranate Gate. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Mirror Realm Cycle.
How big is The Mirror Realm Cycle?: The Mirror Realm Cycle is 3 books, 2023–2026.

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