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Books like The Risen Kingdoms: 9 series to read next

The Risen Kingdoms 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 Risen Kingdoms is 3 books, 2017–2020.

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World of Ice and Fire
The Riftwar
Kyralia series
Grishaverse
Cosmere
Dragon Trilogies
The Daevabad Trilogy
Queen's Thief
Sparhawk

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone, about war.

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

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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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

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Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

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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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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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 →

Dragon TrilogiesSeries

seriesMelanie Rawn6 books1988

About dragons.

“The Dragon Prince trilogy focuses on Prince Rohan of the Desert and his Sunrunner wife, Sioned, while the Dragon Star trilogy focuses on their son, Pol.”
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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 →

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 →

SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

About quests.

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Risen Kingdoms?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to The Risen Kingdoms on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Risen Kingdoms?: An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Risen Kingdoms.
How big is The Risen Kingdoms?: The Risen Kingdoms is 3 books, 2017–2020.

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