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Books like The Traitor's Game: 9 series to read next

The Traitor's Game is fantasy and epic fantasy, about political intrigue, 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 Traitor's Game is 3 books, 2018–2020.

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World of Ice and Fire
An Ember in the Ashes
The Prison Healer
Cosmere
The Bridge Kingdom
Grishaverse
The Riftwar
The Tainted Blood Duology
Legacy of Orisha

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Fantasy and epic fantasy, dark in tone, about political intrigue and war, set in secondary world.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

“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

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

The Prison HealerSeries

seriesLynette Noni3 books2021

About revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Prison Healer →

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 →

The Bridge KingdomSeries

seriesDanielle L. Jensen7 books2018

Fantasy, tense and emotional in tone, about war, set in secondary world.

“The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Bridge Kingdom →

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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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Fantasy and epic 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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The Tainted Blood DuologySeries

seriesEhigbor Okosun2 books2023

Adventurous in tone.

Start with Forged by Blood →

Legacy of OrishaSeries

seriesTomi Adeyemi3 books2018

Fantasy and epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world.

“Tomi Adeyemi's Legacy of Orïsha trilogy opens with Children of Blood and Bone, following Zélie, a girl from a persecuted caste of former magic-users, on a quest to restore magic to a kingdom that outlawed and hunted her people.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Children of Blood and Bone →

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.

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What should I read after The Traitor's Game?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to The Traitor's Game on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Traitor's Game?: The Traitor's Game. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Traitor's Game.
How big is The Traitor's Game?: The Traitor's Game is 3 books, 2018–2020.

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