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Books like The Petralist: 9 series to read next

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

The Petralist is 16 books, 2015–2022.

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Grishaverse
Narnia
Queen's Thief
Tortall
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Kyralia series
Tolkien's legendarium
His Dark Materials
Seraphina Universe

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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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 →

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.”
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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Epic fantasy, about wizards.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
from the catalogue description

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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.”
from the catalogue description

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Seraphina UniverseSeries

seriesRachel Hartman6 books2012

About identity.

Start with Among Ghosts →

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 Petralist?: Grishaverse — the closest match to The Petralist on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Petralist?: A Gaggle of One. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Petralist.
How big is The Petralist?: The Petralist is 16 books, 2015–2022.

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