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Books like Wizard for Hire: 9 series to read next

Wizard for Hire is fantasy, about wizards, set in contemporary and north america, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Wizard for Hire is 3 books, 2018–2020.

“Fourteen-year-old Ozzy lives near Portland, Oregon, and is desperate for help.”
from the catalogue description of Wizard for Hire

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The Dresden Files
Artemis Fowl
Young Wizards
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Dark Is Rising
Black Dragon
Tolkien's legendarium
The Tiger's Apprentice

The Dresden FilesSeries

seriesJim Butcher & Mark Powers (comics)56 books2000

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
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Start with A Fistful of Warlocks →

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

About fae.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
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Start with LEPrecon →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About coming of age.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
from the catalogue description

Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas FlamelSeries

seriesMichael Scott15 books2007

About immortality.

“The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012.”
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Start with The Alchemyst →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Portal fantasy, about coming of age.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, 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.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Black DragonSeries

seriesR. A. MacAvoy2 books1983

Mysterious in tone, about dragons.

Start with Tea with the Black Dragon →

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 Tiger's ApprenticeSeries

seriesLaurence Yep3 books2003

Fantasy and urban fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“Together they must keep the talisman from an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Tiger's Apprentice →

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 Wizard for Hire?: The Dresden Files — the closest match to Wizard for Hire on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Wizard for Hire?: Wizard for Hire. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Wizard for Hire.
How big is Wizard for Hire?: Wizard for Hire is 3 books, 2018–2020.

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