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Books like Untold Legends: 9 series to read next

Untold Legends is fantasy, about fae, set in contemporary and our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Untold Legends is 3 books, 2020–2024.

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Modern Tale of Faerie
American Gods
Wings (Aprilynne Pike)
The Vampire Chronicles
Fairy Tale Retellings (Jackson Pearce)
Bod Owens
Den of Shadows (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)
Wicked Lovely
Karou

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

Urban fantasy.

Start with Tithe →

American GodsSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman10 books1999

About gods.

“Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

Wings (Aprilynne Pike)Series

seriesAprilynne Pike6 books2009

Fantasy, about fae and coming of age, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Wings →

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

Gothic, about immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
from the catalogue description of Interview with the Vampire
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Start with Interview with the Vampire →

Fairy Tale Retellings (Jackson Pearce)Series

seriesJackson Pearce4 books2010

Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Sisters Red →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, about found family, set in british isles.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

Den of Shadows (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)Series

seriesAmelia Atwater-Rhodes9 books1999

Paranormal, dark in tone, about vampires, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with In the Forests of the Night →

Wicked LovelySeries

seriesMelissa Marr17 books2007

Urban fantasy.

“Later books widen out to other faerie courts and other narrators drawn into the same modern-day faerie politics layered invisibly over ordinary life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Cold Iron Heart →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

Set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

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.

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What should I read after Untold Legends?: Modern Tale of Faerie — the closest match to Untold Legends on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Untold Legends?: Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Untold Legends.
How big is Untold Legends?: Untold Legends is 3 books, 2020–2024.

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