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Books like The Primal Hunter: 9 series to read next

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

The Primal Hunter is 21 books, 2022–2026.

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Stephen King multiverse
Shannara
Malazan
The Dragon Chronicles
The Wind on Fire
Divine Progression
Darwath
The Riftwar
His Dark Materials

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, 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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The Dragon ChroniclesSeries

seriesSusan Fletcher4 books1989

About dragons.

“The Dragon Chronicles opens with Dragon's Milk, Susan Fletcher's 1989 debut and the first book in this fantasy quartet.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dragon's Milk →

The Wind on FireSeries

seriesWilliam Nicholson3 books2000

Epic fantasy.

Start with The Wind Singer →

Divine ProgressionSeries

seriesJake Brannigan5 books2023

Litrpg and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

Start with Town Guard →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

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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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 Primal Hunter?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to The Primal Hunter on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Primal Hunter?: The Primal Hunter. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Primal Hunter.
How big is The Primal Hunter?: The Primal Hunter is 21 books, 2022–2026.

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