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Books like The Parasol Protectorate: 9 series to read next

The Parasol Protectorate is steampunk and paranormal romance, about coming of age, set in 19th century, funny in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Parasol Protectorate is 22 books across 7 series, 2009–2021.

“A lady of good breeding must navigate not merely the marriage market but the vampires who dictate its fashions and the werewolves who serve, quite respectably, in Her Majesty's regiments.”
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The Mortal Instruments
Gemma Doyle
Hunchback Assignments / Modo: Mission Clockwork
Bastable Children
Five Children Universe
Wolves Chronicles
Sally Lockhart
The Raven King
Bod Owens

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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Gemma DoyleSeries

seriesLibba Bray4 books2003

About friendship.

Start with A Great and Terrible Beauty →

Hunchback Assignments / Modo: Mission ClockworkSeries

seriesArthur Slade5 books2009

Steampunk, adventurous in tone, about shapeshifters, set in 19th century.

“A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show.”
from the catalogue description of The Hunchback Assignments

Start with The Hunchback Assignments →

Bastable ChildrenSeries

seriesE. Nesbit24 books1898

“E. Nesbit's Bastable novels follow their well-meaning, thoroughly unsuccessful schemes across three books published between 1899 and 1904, mixing believable sibling squabbles with the children's own overactive imaginations.”
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Start with The Story of the Treasure Seekers →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
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Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

seriesJoan Aiken12 books1962

Adventure.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
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Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

Sally LockhartSeries

seriesPhilip Pullman4 books1985

Historical fiction and mystery & detective, about murder investigation.

Start with The Ruby in the Smoke →

The Raven KingSeries

seriesSusanna Clarke13 books1996

About fae.

“Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reintroduces magic to an alternate nineteenth-century England, centering on the prickly rivalry between the two title magicians as they revive a lost English tradition.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Ladies of Grace Adieu →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, bittersweet in tone, set in contemporary.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

Why these

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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 Parasol Protectorate?: The Mortal Instruments — the closest match to The Parasol Protectorate on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is The Parasol Protectorate?: The Parasol Protectorate is 22 books across 7 series, 2009–2021.

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