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Books like Towerfall: 9 series to read next

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

Towerfall is 4 books, 2025–2026.

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Grishaverse
Earthsea
World of Ice and Fire
The Riftwar
Cosmere
The Daevabad Trilogy
The World of Riverside
Ixia & Sitia milieu
Ile-Rien

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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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

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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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Dark in tone, about war.

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

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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

The Daevabad TrilogySeries

seriesS. A. Chakraborty5 books2017

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

“Nahri is a con artist and unlicensed healer working the streets of 18th-century Cairo who accidentally summons Dara, a formidable djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism gone wrong.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City of Brass →

The World of RiversideSeries

seriesEllen Kushner, Joel Derfner, Tessa Gratton, Karen Lord, Delia Sherman, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Liz Duffy Adams, Racheline Maltese, Malinda Lo, Paul Witcover, Juliet Ulman, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Patty Bryant & Kelly Robson72 books1982

Fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“The wider World of Riverside has since expanded into shared-world short fiction and anthologies, such as Swords of Riverside, contributed to by numerous other writers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Swordspoint →

Ixia & Sitia milieuSeries

seriesMaria V. Snyder12 books2005

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

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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 →

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 Towerfall?: Grishaverse — the closest match to Towerfall on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Towerfall?: The Empress. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Towerfall.
How big is Towerfall?: Towerfall is 4 books, 2025–2026.

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