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Books like Underland Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Underland Chronicles is fantasy and epic fantasy, about coming of age, set in underground & caves, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Underland Chronicles is 5 books, 2003–2007.

“The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats.”
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Narnia
Tolkien's legendarium
His Dark Materials
Guardians of Ga'hoole
The Keys to the Kingdom
The Riftwar
The Princess and the Goblin
The Unicorn Chronicles
Sparhawk

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Fantasy and portal fantasy, 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.”
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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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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Set in parallel universe.

“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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Guardians of Ga'hooleSeries

seriesKathryn Lasky & Kathryn Huang17 books2003

Fantasy and epic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about war and coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Apart from the main series, there are a few more books and spin-offs set in the same universe.”
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Start with The Capture →

The Keys to the KingdomSeries

seriesGarth Nix7 books2003

About chosen one, set in otherworld.

Start with Mister Monday →

The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and 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.”
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The Princess and the GoblinSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald2 books1871

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age and quests, set in secondary world.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

The Unicorn ChroniclesSeries

seriesBruce Coville8 books1994

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests.

“Within this realm exist all sorts of fantastical and mythological beasts, from the familiar unicorn to the strange, squirrel-like creature known as the Squijum.”
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Start with Into the Land of the Unicorns →

SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
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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 Underland Chronicles?: Narnia — the closest match to Underland Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Underland Chronicles?: Gregor the Overlander. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Underland Chronicles.
How big is Underland Chronicles?: Underland Chronicles is 5 books, 2003–2007.

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