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Books like Wishes and Wellingtons: 9 series to read next

Wishes and Wellingtons is set in 19th century and british isles. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Wishes and Wellingtons is 3 books, 2018–2023.

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Gemma Doyle
Five Children Universe
Wolves Chronicles
Mairelon
The Mortal Instruments
Fabian Time Fantasies
Kate and Cecelia Universe
The Wind in the Willows Universe
Bartholomew Kettle

Gemma DoyleSeries

seriesLibba Bray4 books2003

Historical fantasy and fantasy, about coming of age and friendship, set in british isles and 19th century.

Start with A Great and Terrible Beauty →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

seriesJoan Aiken12 books1962

Adventure.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

MairelonSeries

seriesPatricia C. Wrede2 books1991

About wizards, set in big city.

“Kim doesn't hesitate when a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into the travelling magician's wagon in search of a silver bowl.”
from the catalogue description of Mairelon the Magician

Start with Mairelon the Magician →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban 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

Reading order →

Fabian Time FantasiesSeries

seriesE. Nesbit2 books1908

Time travel.

“E. Nesbit's Edwardian time-travel duology follows two children who use a magic device to slip between their own era and the past.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The House of Arden →

Kate and Cecelia UniverseSeries

seriesCaroline Stevermer & Patricia C. Wrede4 books1988

Historical fantasy and fantasy, set in 19th century.

“Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.”
from the catalogue description of Magic Below Stairs

Start with Magic Below Stairs →

The Wind in the Willows UniverseSeries

seriesKenneth Grahame, William Horwood, Anne McKie, Ellen Miles, Inga Moore, Juliet Stanley, Kij Johnson, Lesley Sims, M. G. Leonard, Samantha Noonan & Susan Hill17 books1908

Fantasy, about friendship, set in british isles.

Start with The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome →

Bartholomew KettleSeries

seriesStefan Bachmann2 books2012

Fantasy.

Start with The Peculiar →

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 Wishes and Wellingtons?: Gemma Doyle — the closest match to Wishes and Wellingtons on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Wishes and Wellingtons?: Wishes and Wellingtons. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Wishes and Wellingtons.
How big is Wishes and Wellingtons?: Wishes and Wellingtons is 3 books, 2018–2023.

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