Series

Books like The Traitor Spy Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Traitor Spy Trilogy is fantasy and epic fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Traitor Spy Trilogy is 3 books, 2010–2012.

“Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician and Age of the Five.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

The The Traitor Spy Trilogy page →Narrow this list →

World of Ice and Fire
The Riftwar
Cosmere
Tolkien's legendarium
The Codex Alera
Fortress (C. J. Cherryh)
Dragon Trilogies
Grishaverse
Lightbringer

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone, about war.

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

Reading order →

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

Reading order →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

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

Reading order →

The Codex AleraSeries

seriesJim Butcher6 books2004

About war.

“Jim Butcher's six-book series, continuing through Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, and First Lord's Fury, builds from small-scale political maneuvering into full-scale war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Furies of Calderon →

Fortress (C. J. Cherryh)Series

seriesC. J. Cherryh5 books1995

Fantasy and epic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about wizards and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words.”
from the catalogue description of Fortress in the Eye of Time
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Fortress in the Eye of Time →

Dragon TrilogiesSeries

seriesMelanie Rawn6 books1988

About dragons.

“The Dragon Prince trilogy focuses on Prince Rohan of the Desert and his Sunrunner wife, Sioned, while the Dragon Star trilogy focuses on their son, Pol.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Reading order →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

LightbringerSeries

seriesBrent Weeks5 books2010

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with The Black Prism →

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 Traitor Spy Trilogy?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to The Traitor Spy Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Traitor Spy Trilogy?: The Ambassador's Mission. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Traitor Spy Trilogy.
How big is The Traitor Spy Trilogy?: The Traitor Spy Trilogy is 3 books, 2010–2012.

Books like The Traitor Spy Trilogy: 9 series to read next

Read next in The Traitor Spy Trilogy

Why these

Questions readers ask

Other series like this one