Read-alouds and series
Books to read after Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson fans want a funny narrator, a quest and mythology. Riordan wrote more, and several other authors now write in the same mode.
Titles, authors and publication details were checked against Open Library in October 2026; age ranges follow publisher and library guidance and are approximate. Series order is the order of publication. Checked 2026-10-25. Nobody paid to be here. The buy links are plain search links, not affiliate links, so Peabody earns nothing from them.
The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan · Ages 10-14
Heroes of Olympus #1. A new boy wakes with no memory at Camp Half-Blood; reads best after the first Percy Jackson series.
Watch for: Longer, with romance beginning among teens.
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The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan · Ages 9-13
The Kane Chronicles #1. Siblings set loose the Egyptian gods; told as recorded audio by two narrators.
Watch for: Some peril and deaths.
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The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan · Ages 10-14
Magnus Chase #1. A homeless teenager enters the Norse afterlife.
Watch for: Includes the protagonist's death at the start.
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Aru Shah and the End of Time
Roshani Chokshi · Ages 9-13
A twelve-year-old lies and lights a lamp that frees a demon, drawing on Hindu myth. Funny, a Rick Riordan Presents book.
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Kwame Mbalia · Ages 9-13
A boy enters a world built from African and African American folk heroes.
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The Storm Runner
J. C. Cervantes · Ages 9-13
A boy with a limp discovers he is tied to Maya gods.
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Dragon Pearl
Yoon Ha Lee · Ages 9-13
A fox spirit in a space-faring Korean-myth future searches for her brother.
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Race to the Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse · Ages 9-13
Nizhoni Begay can see monsters and uses Diné stories to save her father.
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Gregor the Overlander
Suzanne Collins · Ages 9-13
A quest in an underground world. Same pace of reveals and rescues.
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The Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan
John Flanagan · Ages 10-14
A boy joins an archer-spy order. Adventure without gods.
Watch for: Battles with deaths.
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Ingri d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · Ages 6-12
The picture-heavy retelling of the stories Percy Jackson is built on. Classic reference.
Watch for: Some myths are violent.
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Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger · Ages 9-13
A girl discovers she belongs to a hidden elf world. Same competency fantasy; long run.
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