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Books like The Windrose Chronicles: 9 series to read next

The Windrose Chronicles is 9 books, 1986–2015.

“Hambly, known for setting much of her fantasy and science fiction inside an explicit multiverse rather than one fixed world, extended the series with the later, more loosely connected Stranger at the Wedding.”
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His Dark Materials
Magic Kingdom of Landover
Fionavar Universe
Tolkien's legendarium
Narnia
Ile-Rien
Wizard World
Cosmere
Kyralia series

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age.

“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.”
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Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

seriesTerry Brooks8 books1986

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.”
from the catalogue description of Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
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Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone.

“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 →

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.”
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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

“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.”
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Ile-RienSeries

seriesMartha Wells12 books1993

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The Ile-Rien books are a series of fantasy novels by Martha Wells set in the fictional country of Ile-Rien.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Element of Fire →

Wizard WorldSeries

seriesRoger Zelazny & Kelly McCullough3 books1980

About identity.

“Torn between the two, Pol has to master an art he was never trained for in order to survive his own inheritance.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Changeling →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

Kyralia seriesUniverse

universe8 books2001

Epic fantasy.

“Once a year the magicians of Kyralia sweep the beggars out of the capital, and once a year the beggars throw stones.”
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What should I read after The Windrose Chronicles?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to The Windrose Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Windrose Chronicles?: The Silent Tower. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Windrose Chronicles.
How big is The Windrose Chronicles?: The Windrose Chronicles is 9 books, 1986–2015.

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