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Books like Word and the Void: 9 series to read next

Word and the Void is urban fantasy and fantasy, about demons, set in north america, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Word and the Void is 5 books, 1991–2018.

“By the time of the prequel First King of Shannara, the world had reverted to a pre-industrial state and magic had re-emerged to supplement science.”
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The Legendborn Cycle
Exorcist
Rosemary Reilly
Anita Blake
The Shining
Dante Valentine
The Morganville Vampires
Desperation/Regulators
Nina Kane / The Stars Never Rise

The Legendborn CycleSeries

seriesTracy Deonn3 books2020

“Tracy Deonn's Legendborn Cycle follows Bree Matthews, a Black teenager who enrolls in an early-college program and stumbles into a secret society descended from Arthurian legend operating alongside her North Carolina campus.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Legendborn →

ExorcistSeries

seriesWilliam Peter Blatty & Steven Piziks6 books1971

Horror.

“Other Exorcist books are tie-in and franchise material rather than further novels by Blatty himself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Exorcist →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

Horror, about parenthood.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Rosemary's Baby →

Anita BlakeSeries

seriesLaurell K. Hamilton & Jonathon Green42 books1993

About vampires.

“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
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Start with Guilty Pleasures →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

Horror, about addiction.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Shining →

Dante ValentineSeries

seriesLilith Saintcrow6 books2006

Urban fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about demons, set in contemporary.

“Working for the Devil opens Lilith Saintcrow's Dante Valentine series with Dante, a necromancer-for-hire who reluctantly takes a job from the Devil himself: kill a rogue demon, Vardimal Santino, in exchange for her life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Working for the Devil →

The Morganville VampiresSeries

seriesRachel Caine40 books2006

Paranormal, about vampires.

“The novels feature Claire Danvers, a student at Texas Prairie University, and her housemates in the vampire-controlled city of Morganville, Texas.”
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Start with Glass Houses →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Horror, about survival and madness.

“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Desperation →

Nina Kane / The Stars Never RiseSeries

seriesRachel Vincent2 books2015

About survival.

“Sixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul, but she's too busy trying to actually survive.”
from the catalogue description of The Stars Never Rise

Start with The Stars Never Rise →

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 Word and the Void?: The Legendborn Cycle — the closest match to Word and the Void on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Word and the Void?: Running with the Demon. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Word and the Void.
How big is Word and the Void?: Word and the Void is 5 books, 1991–2018.

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