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Books like The Scholomance: 9 series to read next

The Scholomance is fantasy and dark fantasy, about magic schools, set in secondary world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Scholomance is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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The Ancestor
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Grishaverse
An Ember in the Ashes
Earthsea
Witches Steeped in Gold
World of Ice and Fire
The Young Elites
Tolkien's legendarium

The AncestorSeries

seriesMark Lawrence4 books2017

Fantasy and dark fantasy, dark in tone, about magic schools and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“The three novels tell the story of Nona Grey, a peasant girl with mystical abilities.”
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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) →

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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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

About rebellion and revolution.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Reflective in tone.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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Witches Steeped in GoldSeries

seriesCiannon Smart2 books2021

About witches and enemies to lovers.

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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About war.

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

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The Young ElitesSeries

seriesMarie Lu3 books2014

About revenge.

“The second book is called The Rose Society and was released on October 13, 2015.”
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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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 Scholomance?: The Ancestor — the closest match to The Scholomance on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Scholomance?: A Deadly Education. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Scholomance.
How big is The Scholomance?: The Scholomance is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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