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Books like The Sisters Grimm: 9 series to read next

The Sisters Grimm is fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in contemporary and our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Sisters Grimm is 9 books, 2005–2012.

“Summary from copyright page: Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother whom they have always believed to be dead.”
from the catalogue description of The Fairy-Tale Detectives
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Artemis Fowl
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Dark Is Rising
Spiderwick
The Mysterious Benedict Society milieu
Menagerie (Tui and Kari Sutherland)
Tolkien's legendarium
Samuel Johnson
Darkmouth

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about fae, set in contemporary and our world.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with LEPrecon →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Portal fantasy.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, set in british isles.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

SpiderwickUniverse

universe17 books2003

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

“Holly Black writes and Tony DiTerlizzi draws this small, densely illustrated world across two linked cycles.”
from the catalogue description

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The Mysterious Benedict Society milieuSeries

seriesTrenton Lee Stewart4 books2007

Adventure, about friendship.

Start with The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict →

Menagerie (Tui and Kari Sutherland)Series

seriesKari Sutherland & Tui T. Sutherland3 books2013

Fantasy, set in contemporary and our world.

“Logan Wilde is accidentally drawn into the mysterious, dangerous world of the Menagerie when he discovers a griffin hiding under his bed . . . and it leads him straight to the weirdest girl in seventh grade, Zoe Kahn.”
from the catalogue description of The Menagerie

Start with The Menagerie →

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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Samuel JohnsonSeries

seriesJohn Connolly3 books2009

Funny in tone, about demons.

“The comic horror trilogy continues through Hell's Bells and The Creeps.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gates →

DarkmouthSeries

seriesShane Hegarty4 books2015

About monster hunting.

Start with The Legends Begin →

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 Sisters Grimm?: Artemis Fowl — the closest match to The Sisters Grimm on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Sisters Grimm?: The Fairy-Tale Detectives. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Sisters Grimm.
How big is The Sisters Grimm?: The Sisters Grimm is 9 books, 2005–2012.

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