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Books like The Strands: 9 series to read next

The Strands is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Strands is 8 books, 1985–1997.

“The other novels are Maze of Moonlight, Shroud of Shadow, and Strands of Sunlight.”
from the catalogue description of Strands of Starlight

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Watership Down
His Dark Materials
Fionavar Universe
Earthsea
Karou
Narnia
Discworld
Grishaverse
Castle Auburn

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

Adventurous in tone, about survival and quests, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, 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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Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards.

“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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KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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DiscworldUniverse

universe84 books1983

Funny in tone.

“Death speaks IN SMALL CAPITALS and rides a horse called Binky.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Guards! Guards! →

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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Castle AuburnSeries

seriesSharon Shinn2 books2001

About court intrigue.

“Gold continues years later as an adult Coriel confronts the consequences of choices made in the first book.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Summers at Castle Auburn →

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after The Strands?: Watership Down — the closest match to The Strands on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Strands?: Strands of Starlight. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Strands.
How big is The Strands?: The Strands is 8 books, 1985–1997.

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