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Books like The Undertaken Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Undertaken Trilogy is fantasy, about family secrets and undead, 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 Undertaken Trilogy is 3 books, 2011–2014.

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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
World of Ice and Fire
Grishaverse
Earthsea
Gormenghast
Tolkien's legendarium
An Ember in the Ashes
The Bone Witch
Stephen King multiverse

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

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

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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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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, 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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GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Titus Groan →

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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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

“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 Bone WitchSeries

seriesRin Chupeco3 books2017

Fantasy and dark fantasy, dark in tone, about undead, set in secondary world.

Start with The Bone Witch →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

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 Undertaken Trilogy?: The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu — the closest match to The Undertaken Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Undertaken Trilogy?: Death Watch. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Undertaken Trilogy.
How big is The Undertaken Trilogy?: The Undertaken Trilogy is 3 books, 2011–2014.

Books like The Undertaken Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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