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Books like Arabesk: 9 series to read next

Arabesk is alternate history and science fiction, about political intrigue, set in middle east and big city. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Arabesk is 3 books, 2001–2003.

“The Arabesk trilogy is a sequence of alternate history novels by the British author Jon Courtenay Grimwood.”
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Blade Runner Universe
Budayeen
Small Change
Sprawl Trilogy
Foundation
Dune
Worldwar Universe
How Few Remain Universe
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

seriesK. W. Jeter, Archie Goodwin, Les Martin & Philip K. Dick6 books1968

Cyberpunk, about robots.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

BudayeenSeries

seriesGeorge Alec Effinger13 books1973

Cyberpunk.

“Budayeen Nights, published after Effinger's death, gathers his shorter fiction set in the same neon-lit quarter.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City on the Sand →

Small ChangeSeries

seriesJo Walton4 books2006

Thriller & suspense, about totalitarianism, set in british isles and mid 20th century.

“As the series begins, Britain itself slides toward fascism.”
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Start with Farthing →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Cyberpunk, about artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Neuromancer →

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots, set in far future.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Foundation →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in far future and other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

Worldwar UniverseSeries

seriesHarry Turtledove8 books1994

Alien invasion, about aliens and war, set in our world.

Reading order →

How Few Remain UniverseSeries

seriesHarry Turtledove11 books1997

About war, set in north america.

“How Few Remain opens Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory timeline, imagining a North America where the Confederacy won the Civil War.”
from the catalogue description

Start with How Few Remain →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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 Arabesk?: Blade Runner Universe — the closest match to Arabesk on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Arabesk?: Pashazade. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Arabesk.
How big is Arabesk?: Arabesk is 3 books, 2001–2003.

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