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Books like The Tide Child Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Tide Child Trilogy is epic fantasy and fantasy, about war, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Tide Child Trilogy is 3 books, 2019–2021.

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World of Ice and Fire
Malazan
The Circle of the World
Tolkien's legendarium
The Acacia Trilogy
The Poppy War
The Second Apocalypse
Fallen Gods / Godkiller
The Riftwar

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About political intrigue.

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

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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war, set in secondary world.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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The Circle of the WorldUniverse

universe29 books2006

Fantasy and grimdark, set in secondary world.

“What sets it apart is the honesty of its cynicism — close, sardonic points of view, gallows humour, and a flat refusal to let anyone stay clean.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Blade Itself →

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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The Acacia TrilogySeries

seriesDavid Anthony Durham3 books2007

About political intrigue.

“David Anthony Durham's trilogy, continuing through The Other Lands and The Sacred Band, follows the siblings as each confronts a different piece of the empire's hidden machinery.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Acacia: The War with the Mein →

The Poppy WarSeries

seriesR. F. Kuang4 books2018

Epic fantasy and fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about war, set in secondary world.

“The Poppy War follows Rin, a war orphan who tests into an elite military academy and discovers a talent for shamanic power tied to a pantheon of vengeful gods.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Poppy War →

The Second ApocalypseSeries

seriesR. Scott Bakker11 books2003

Challenging in tone, about faith and religion and political intrigue.

Start with The Knife of Many Hands →

Fallen Gods / GodkillerSeries

seriesHannah Kaner3 books2023

About gods.

“Hannah Kaner's Godkiller follows Kissen, who lost her family to zealots of a fire god and now kills gods for a living, until she meets Skedi, a small god of white lies bound against his will to a young noble and hunted by assassins.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Godkiller →

The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and 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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Why these

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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after The Tide Child Trilogy?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to The Tide Child Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Tide Child Trilogy?: The Bone Ships. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Tide Child Trilogy.
How big is The Tide Child Trilogy?: The Tide Child Trilogy is 3 books, 2019–2021.

Books like The Tide Child Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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