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Books like Wirrun: 9 series to read next

Wirrun is fantasy and mythic fantasy, about quests, set in oceania and contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Wirrun is 3 books, 1977–1981.

“Wirrun was a man of the People, the aborigines of Australia.”
from the catalogue description of The Ice Is Coming

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Nargun / Wirrun milieu
The Dark Is Rising
Alderley
His Dark Materials
Narnia
Tolkien's legendarium
The Princess and the Goblin
Kairos
Pandava

Nargun / Wirrun milieuSeries

seriesPatricia Wrightson4 books1973

Fantasy and mythic fantasy, set in contemporary and oceania.

Start with The Nargun and the Stars →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Set in british isles.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Set in british isles.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

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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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

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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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

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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The Princess and the GoblinSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald2 books1871

Set in secondary world.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

Reading order →

PandavaSeries

seriesRoshani Chokshi5 books2018

About gods.

“The next books are Aru Shah and the Song of Death, Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes, Aru Shah and the City of Gold, and Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Aru Shah and the End of Time →

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 Wirrun?: Nargun / Wirrun milieu — the closest match to Wirrun on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Wirrun?: The Ice Is Coming. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Wirrun.
How big is Wirrun?: Wirrun is 3 books, 1977–1981.
Is Wirrun finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1977–1981.

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