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Books like Viriconium: 9 series to read next

Viriconium is fantasy, set in secondary world and big city, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Viriconium is 14 books, 1971–1985.

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Gormenghast
New Crobuzon
Ambergris
Earthsea
Veniss
The Kingkiller Chronicle
Zimiamvian Trilogy
Tolkien's legendarium
Dream Cycle

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic, dark in tone.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Titus Groan →

New CrobuzonSeries

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Dark in tone.

“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 →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, 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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

VenissSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer12 books1990

Eerie in tone.

Start with The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight →

The Kingkiller ChronicleSeries

seriesPatrick Rothfuss8 books2002

“The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 2007 and 2011.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Name of the Wind →

Zimiamvian TrilogySeries

seriesE. R. Eddison4 books1922

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and court intrigue.

“Dissolution of the realm seems certain as alliances are formed and begin to intrigue against each other.”
from the catalogue description of Mistress of Mistresses
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Start with Mistress of Mistresses →

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

Reading order →

Dream CycleSeries

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

Horror.

Start with The White Ship →

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 Viriconium?: Gormenghast — the closest match to Viriconium on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Viriconium?: The Pastel City. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Viriconium.
How big is Viriconium?: Viriconium is 14 books, 1971–1985.

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