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Books Like The Chronicles of Narnia
Best books to read after The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia is the other great mid-century British secondary world fantasy — seven volumes, Aslan, Christian allegory. These recommendations continue the Narnia world with Lewis's other fiction, explore the epic fantasy tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the British fantasy novel for children and adults.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
The Narnia entry point — Lucy finding Narnia through the wardrobe, Aslan's sacrifice and resurrection, the clearest expression of the series' Christian allegory and its most beloved volume.
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The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lewis and Tolkien were close friends in the Inklings — LotR is the other great British secondary world fantasy of the same moment, more complex and more ambitious, the natural next read after Narnia.
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The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
The companion Lewis — Screwtape's letters of advice to his nephew Wormwood on how to damn a human soul, Lewis's most accessible and most entertaining Christian apologetics in fiction form.
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Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis
The non-fiction counterpart — Lewis's most famous Christian apologetics, the book that gives the theological framework that Narnia dramatizes, essential context for readers interested in the Christian dimension.
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His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
Lyra Belacqua in a parallel world — Pullman's explicitly anti-Narnia trilogy, responding to Lewis's Christian allegory with a secular humanist counter-vision, using the same portal fantasy structure.
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A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
The feminist philosophical counterpart to Narnia — Earthsea as a secondary world with its own internal coherence and moral vision, the most significant rival to Narnia and Tolkien in the classic fantasy tradition.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
The American equivalent of the Lewis portal fantasy — Milo passing through the tollbooth into the Lands Beyond, the same quest structure and the same education-by-adventure that Narnia uses.
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The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman
The first volume of His Dark Materials — the most focused and most exciting Pullman novel, the most accessible entry to his response to Lewis, equally celebrated as children's literature and adult fantasy.
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