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Books like Winterkill: 9 series to read next

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

Winterkill is 3 books, 2014–2016.

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Grishaverse
The Sight
Tolkien's legendarium
Narnia
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
The Healing Wars
World of Ice and Fire
An Ember in the Ashes
Song of the Last Kingdom

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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The SightSeries

seriesDavid Clement-Davies2 books2001

Fantasy, dark in tone, about coming of age, set in secondary world.

“David Clement-Davies' The Sight follows Larka, a white wolf born with a rare prophetic power, within a pack shadowed by a curse laid by the embittered lone wolf Morgra.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Sight →

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

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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“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 Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

The Healing WarsSeries

seriesJanice Hardy3 books2009

Fantasy, tense in tone, about coming of age, set in secondary world.

“Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war.”
from the catalogue description of The Shifter

Start with The Shifter →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

Song of the Last KingdomSeries

seriesAmélie Wen Zhao2 books2023

Epic fantasy.

“Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers.”
from the catalogue description of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

Start with Song of Silver, Flame Like Night →

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 Winterkill?: Grishaverse — the closest match to Winterkill on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Winterkill?: Winterkill. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Winterkill.
How big is Winterkill?: Winterkill is 3 books, 2014–2016.

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