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Books like Welsh Virginia: 9 series to read next

Welsh Virginia is urban fantasy and fantasy, set in contemporary and north america, mysterious in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Welsh Virginia is 8 books, 2012–2022.

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Black Dragon
Caster Chronicles / Beautiful Creatures Universe
Fault Lines (Tim Powers)
Modern Tale of Faerie
This Poison Heart
Simon Snow
The Curse Workers
The Mortal Instruments
Vampire Academy Universe

Black DragonSeries

seriesR. A. MacAvoy2 books1983

Mystery & detective, about dragons, set in big city.

Start with Tea with the Black Dragon →

Caster Chronicles / Beautiful Creatures UniverseSeries

seriesKami Garcia & Margaret Stohl8 books2009

Fantasy, set in contemporary and north america.

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Fault Lines (Tim Powers)Series

seriesTim Powers3 books1992

Urban fantasy and fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

Start with Last Call →

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

About fae.

Start with Tithe →

This Poison HeartSeries

seriesKalynn Bayron2 books2021

About witches.

“Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.”
from the catalogue description

Start with This Poison Heart →

Simon SnowSeries

seriesRainbow Rowell3 books2015

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

“Rainbow Rowell's Carry On follows Simon Snow through his final year at a magical school, where he is the 'Chosen One' expected to defeat a destructive force called the Humdrum threatening the World of Mages.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Carry On →

The Curse WorkersSeries

seriesHolly Black3 books2010

Tense in tone, about family secrets and curses.

“Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families.”
from the catalogue description

Start with White Cat →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy and fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue description

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Vampire Academy UniverseSeries

seriesRichelle Mead & Michelle Rowen19 books2007

Paranormal romance, about vampires.

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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.

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What should I read after Welsh Virginia?: Black Dragon — the closest match to Welsh Virginia on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Welsh Virginia?: Welsh Virginia is 8 books, 2012–2022.

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