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Books like Touchstone Trilogy: 9 series to read next

Touchstone Trilogy is fantasy, about fae and friendship, set in british isles and our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Touchstone Trilogy is 3 books, 2003–2008.

“The trilogy tells the story of the hidden tribes of little people who live in a tangled forest on a hill in Somerset, and their interactions with the children at the farm on whose land the hill stands.”
from the catalogue description of The Various

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Five Children Universe
Narnia
The Indian in the Cupboard
Peter Pan
Watership Down
Liddy
Tales of Magic
Artemis Fowl
Alderley

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Fantasy, set in british isles and early 20th century.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Set in secondary world.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Fantasy and portal fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in contemporary and our world.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peter Pan →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and found family.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

LiddySeries

seriesKate Thompson3 books2005

Fantasy, about fae, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The Last of the High Kings and The White Horse Trick continue the Liddy family's entanglement with that fairy world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The New Policeman →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, about friendship, set in contemporary and our world.

“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Half Magic →

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about fae, set in contemporary and our world.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with LEPrecon →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

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 Touchstone Trilogy?: Five Children Universe — the closest match to Touchstone Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Touchstone Trilogy?: The Various. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Touchstone Trilogy.
How big is Touchstone Trilogy?: Touchstone Trilogy is 3 books, 2003–2008.

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