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Books like Vampire Rites: 9 series to read next

Vampire Rites is fantasy, about vampires and coming of age, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Vampire Rites is 3 books, 2001–2002.

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The Scholomance
His Dark Materials
Stephen King multiverse
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Grishaverse
Narnia
Tolkien's legendarium
The Ancestor
World of Ice and Fire

The ScholomanceSeries

seriesNaomi Novik3 books2020

About magic schools and survival.

Start with A Deadly Education →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

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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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“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

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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.”
from the catalogue description

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The AncestorSeries

seriesMark Lawrence4 books2017

Epic fantasy, about magic schools.

“The three novels tell the story of Nona Grey, a peasant girl with mystical abilities.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Red Sister →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

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

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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 Vampire Rites?: The Scholomance — the closest match to Vampire Rites on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Vampire Rites?: Vampire Mountain. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Vampire Rites.
How big is Vampire Rites?: Vampire Rites is 3 books, 2001–2002.

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