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Books like The Wing and the Ways: 9 series to read next

The Wing and the Ways is fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Wing and the Ways is 1 book, from 2026.

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World of Ice and Fire
Grishaverse
The Inheritance (Jemisin)
Dragon Age (Bioware RPG tie-in)
Kushiel's Legacy Universe
Parallel Universe
Gormenghast
The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About war.

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

Reading order →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

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

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The Inheritance (Jemisin)Series

seriesN. K. Jemisin9 books2010

About gods.

Start with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms →

Dragon Age (Bioware RPG tie-in)Series

seriesPatrick Weekes, David Gaider, Brianne Battye, Courtney Woods, John Epler, Lukas Kristjanson, Sylvia Feketekuty, Arone Le Bray, Caitlin Sullivan Kelly, Chris Bain, Christopher Morgan, Liane Merciel, Matthew Goldman & Ryan Cormier21 books2009

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

“The Stolen Throne and The Calling serve as prequels filling in the backstory of characters central to the first game, while later books such as Asunder and The Masked Empire tie more directly into the plots and politics of the sequels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Stolen Throne →

Kushiel's Legacy UniverseSeries

seriesJacqueline Carey13 books2001

Emotional in tone.

“Since the series features a fictional version of medieval Western Europe, it can be considered historical fantasy or alternate history.”
from the catalogue description of Earth Begotten

Start with Earth Begotten →

Parallel UniverseSeries

seriesPaula Volsky5 books1991

Fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Eliste is the pampered young daughter of the vicious Marquis vo Derrivalle.”
from the catalogue description of Illusion

Start with Illusion →

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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Titus Groan →

The Kingdoms of Thorn and BoneSeries

seriesGreg Keyes4 books2003

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

“In doing so, she freed the race of humans - once taken from their distant homes and forced to wear the bitter yoke of slavery.”
from the catalogue description of The Briar King
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Briar King →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

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

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 Wing and the Ways?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to The Wing and the Ways on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Wing and the Ways?: A Snake Among Swans. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Wing and the Ways.
How big is The Wing and the Ways?: The Wing and the Ways is 1 book, from 2026.

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