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Books like Veniss: 9 series to read next

Veniss is eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Veniss is 12 books, 1990–2011.

New Crobuzon
Ambergris
Gormenghast
Borne
Viriconium
Stephen King multiverse
Dream Cycle
Grishaverse
The Secret Books of Paradys

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Fantasy and weird fiction, dark and challenging in tone, set in secondary world.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Perdido Street Station →

AmbergrisSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer20 books1996

Fantasy and weird fiction, set in secondary world and big city.

“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
from the catalogue description

Start with City of Saints and Madmen →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Titus Groan →

BorneSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer3 books2017

Post-apocalyptic, set in near future.

“Jeff VanderMeer's series continues with the related novels The Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts, set in the same devastated world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Borne →

ViriconiumSeries

seriesM. John Harrison14 books1971

Fantasy, eerie in tone, set in secondary world and big city.

Start with The Pastel City →

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 →

Dream CycleSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft, C. T. Phipps, E. Hoffmann Price, Jack Chapman Miske, Richard Gavin & W. H. Pugmire26 books1919

Horror, eerie in tone.

Start with The White Ship →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Secret Books of ParadysSeries

seriesTanith Lee15 books1988

Dark fantasy.

“Synopsis - Welcome to the nightmare world of Paradys!”
from the catalogue description of The Book of the Damned

Start with The Book of the Damned →

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 Veniss?: New Crobuzon — the closest match to Veniss on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Veniss?: The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Veniss.
How big is Veniss?: Veniss is 12 books, 1990–2011.

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