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Books like The Nightshade Crown: 9 series to read next

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

The Nightshade Crown is 3 books, 2023–2025.

“When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire.”
from the catalogue description of The Foxglove King

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World of Ice and Fire
Malazan
Grishaverse
An Ember in the Ashes
Cosmere
The Plated Prisoner
Kushiel's Legacy Universe
The Broken Empire
Blood of Lilith

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war.

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

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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

The Plated PrisonerSeries

seriesRaven Kennedy6 books2020

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes.”
from the catalogue description of Gild

Start with Gild →

Kushiel's Legacy UniverseSeries

seriesJacqueline Carey13 books2001

Fantasy, emotional in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Since the series features a fictional version of medieval Western Europe, it can be considered historical fantasy or alternate history.”
from the catalogue description of Earth Begotten

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The Broken EmpireUniverse

universe27 books2011

Grimdark.

“What looks like sword-and-castle medievalism is the ash of our own age, and the magic is only physics that learned to listen.”
from the catalogue description

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Blood of LilithSeries

seriesScarlett St. Clair1 book2025

Fantasy and dark fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about political intrigue and forbidden love, set in secondary world.

“Estranged from her powerful family, Lilith Leviathan finds refuge in Nineveh, a district in the city of Eden devoted to sin.”
from the catalogue description of Terror at the Gates

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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after The Nightshade Crown?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to The Nightshade Crown on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Nightshade Crown?: The Foxglove King. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Nightshade Crown.
How big is The Nightshade Crown?: The Nightshade Crown is 3 books, 2023–2025.

Books like The Nightshade Crown: 9 series to read next

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