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Books like Verida: 9 series to read next

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

Verida is 27 books across 4 series, 2022–2025.

“Verida rises where the Wolfram River loses itself in the swamp: a city built on pilings and ambition, where the water is always half a season from swallowing the streets and the streets are always half a scheme from something better.”
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World of Ice and Fire
The Riftwar
Grishaverse
Tolkien's legendarium
Queen's Thief
Gentleman Bastard Sequence
Hyborian Age
Cosmere
Earthsea

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy.

“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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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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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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Queen's ThiefSeries

seriesMegan Whalen Turner41 books1996

“Megan Whalen Turner's series expands from that single heist into court intrigue and small-scale warfare among a set of Mediterranean-flavored kingdoms, with later books often shifting whose perspective the reader trusts.”
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Start with The Thief →

Gentleman Bastard SequenceSeries

seriesScott Lynch7 books2006

About con artists.

“The Lies of Locke Lamora and its two sequels braid heist capers with flashbacks tracing how the gang was trained, escalating into a wider conflict involving crime lords and sorcerers.”
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Start with The Lies of Locke Lamora →

Hyborian AgeUniverse

universe242 books1929

Sword and sorcery.

“Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”
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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, 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.”
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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 Verida?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to Verida on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Verida?: Verida is 27 books across 4 series, 2022–2025.

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