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Books like The Witch's Child: 9 series to read next

The Witch's Child is fantasy, about witches, 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 Witch's Child is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Grishaverse
Tortall
Witches Steeped in Gold
An Ember in the Ashes
The Book of Tea
Enemies of the Prince
Queen's Thief
The Scholomance

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) →

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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TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

About coming of age.

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Witches Steeped in GoldSeries

seriesCiannon Smart2 books2021

Dark fantasy, about enemies to lovers.

Start with Witches Steeped in Gold →

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 Book of TeaSeries

seriesJudy I. Lin2 books2022

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

“For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault.”
from the catalogue description of A Magic Steeped in Poison

Start with A Magic Steeped in Poison →

Enemies of the PrinceSeries

seriesJustin Somper2 books2013

Fantasy, tense in tone, set in secondary world.

Start with Allies & Assassins →

Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

Fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thief →

The ScholomanceSeries

seriesNaomi Novik3 books2020

Dark fantasy, about magic schools and survival.

Start with A Deadly Education →

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 Witch's Child?: The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu — the closest match to The Witch's Child on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Witch's Child?: Julia Vanishes. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Witch's Child.
How big is The Witch's Child?: The Witch's Child is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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