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Books like Wild Magic Universe: 9 series to read next

Wild Magic Universe is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Wild Magic Universe is 6 books, 2018–2025.

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Narnia
The Wild Magic
His Dark Materials
Fionavar Universe
Birthgrave
House of Secrets
Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales Retold
Earthsea
The Land of Stories

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“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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The Wild MagicSeries

seriesCeline Kiernan3 books2018

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Celine Kiernan's The Wild Magic trilogy opens with Begone the Raggedy Witches, a children's fantasy novel about witches, and continues across The Little Grey Girl and The Promise Witch.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Begone the Raggedy Witches →

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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Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Fantasy and portal fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world and contemporary.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

Start with Ysabel →

BirthgraveSeries

seriesTanith Lee3 books1975

About revenge and identity.

“The person: a woman awakening from a deathlike sleep.”
from the catalogue description of The Birthgrave

Start with The Birthgrave →

House of SecretsSeries

seriesChris Columbus, Ned Vizzini & Chris Rylander3 books2013

Adventure, about quests.

“Rights to the book were sold in 12 foreign territories.”
from the catalogue description

Start with House of Secrets →

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

seriesNaomi Novik4 books2015

Fairy tale retelling.

“The two books share no characters or setting, only Novik's method of building a novel around one inherited folk tale.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Land of StoriesSeries

seriesChris Colfer13 books2012

Fantasy, adventurous in tone.

“Colfer started plans for a prequel series in 2016, and has since published three books in this series, beginning with A Tale of Magic... in 2019.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Wishing Spell →

Why these

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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 Wild Magic Universe?: Narnia — the closest match to Wild Magic Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Wild Magic Universe?: Wild Magic Universe is 6 books, 2018–2025.

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