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Books like Wraeththu: 9 series to read next

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

Wraeththu is 48 books across 6 series, 1987–2019.

“Humanity is ending — not in fire but in a slow forgetting of itself, through insanity and infertility and quiet collapse — and from its ruined cities rises something more beautiful and more dangerous than its makers ever dreamed.”
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Earthsea
Tolkien's legendarium
Gormenghast
The Inheritance (Jemisin)
Grishaverse
Soldier Son
Great Alta
World of Ice and Fire
Nazhuret of Sordaling / Lens of the World

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

About wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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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.”
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GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
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Start with Titus Groan →

The Inheritance (Jemisin)Series

seriesN. K. Jemisin9 books2010

Fantasy and epic fantasy, dark in tone, about political intrigue and gods, set in secondary world.

Start with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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Soldier SonSeries

seriesRobin Hobb3 books2005

About colonialism.

“Set in a new world unrelated to her previous trilogies, the Soldier Son trilogy follows the life of Nevare Burvelle, the second son of a newly elevated Lord of the Kingdom of Gernia.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Shaman's Crossing →

Great AltaSeries

seriesJane Yolen5 books1988

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The books interleave the main narrative with in-world songs, tales and scholarly fragments about the heroine's growing legend.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sister Light, Sister Dark →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About war.

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

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Nazhuret of Sordaling / Lens of the WorldSeries

seriesR. A. MacAvoy3 books1990

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“R. A. MacAvoy's trilogy continues through King of the Dead and Winter of the Wolf, following Nazhuret further into the politics of a court he was never meant to be part of.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Lens of the World →

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.

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What should I read after Wraeththu?: Earthsea — the closest match to Wraeththu on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Wraeththu?: Wraeththu is 48 books across 6 series, 1987–2019.

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