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Books like The Sandman Collections: 9 series to read next

The Sandman Collections is 10 books, 1990–1997.

“Dream is imprisoned for decades by an occultist seeking immortality.”
from the catalogue description of Preludes & Nocturnes

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Mythago Wood
Earthsea
Tolkien's legendarium
de Lint Master Mythos
Dream Cycle
Narnia
The Raven King
His Dark Materials
Some of the Best from Tor.com

Mythago WoodSeries

seriesRobert Holdstock7 books1984

Set in contemporary.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
from the catalogue description

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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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de Lint Master MythosUniverse

universe151 books1977

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“Newford you find by ear — a fiddle tune drifting up from a subway grate, a story a friend swears is true, the particular hush of an alley where the streetlight never quite reaches.”
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Dream CycleSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft, C. T. Phipps, E. Hoffmann Price, Jack Chapman Miske, Richard Gavin & W. H. Pugmire26 books1919

Horror, eerie in tone.

Start with The White Ship →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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.”
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The Raven KingSeries

seriesSusanna Clarke13 books1996

Historical fantasy, set in 19th century.

“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 →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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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Some of the Best from Tor.comSeries

seriesPatrick Nielsen Hayden, Liz Gorinsky, Ann VanderMeer, Ellen Datlow, uncredited, Carl Engle-Laird, David G. Hartwell, Claire Eddy, Marco Palmieri, Andy Duncan, Beth Meacham, Diana Pho, Ellen Klages, George R. R. Martin, Harry Turtledove, Justin Landon, Kelly Robson, Melissa Frain, Miriam Weinberg, M. Rickert, Noa Wheeler, Paul Stevens, Peter Joseph & Veronica Schanoes15 books2011

Science fiction.

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What should I read after The Sandman Collections?: Mythago Wood — the closest match to The Sandman Collections on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Sandman Collections?: Preludes & Nocturnes. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Sandman Collections.
How big is The Sandman Collections?: The Sandman Collections is 10 books, 1990–1997.

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