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Books like Arcana Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Arcana Chronicles is post-apocalyptic, set in near future and our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Arcana Chronicles is 7 books, 2012–2023.

“Experience firsthand the beginning of the end and behold the apocalypse through the eyes of characters you only thought you knew.”
from the catalogue description of Day Zero

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The 5th Wave
Shade's Children milieu
Maze Runner
Blood of Eden
Gone
Ship Breaker
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Night
Tripods

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Science fiction and alien invasion, about aliens.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The 5th Wave →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Science fiction and dystopia, about rebellion and revolution.

Start with Shade's Children →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Science fiction and dystopia.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
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Start with The Maze Runner →

Blood of EdenSeries

seriesJulie Kagawa4 books2012

About vampires.

Start with The Immortal Rules →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Science fiction.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gone →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Science fiction.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

seriesCarrie Ryan9 books2009

Zombie horror.

“The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Forest of Hands and Teeth →

NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

Set in contemporary.

“Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”
from the catalogue description

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TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Science fiction and alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

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 Arcana Chronicles?: The 5th Wave — the closest match to Arcana Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Arcana Chronicles?: Day Zero. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Arcana Chronicles.
How big is Arcana Chronicles?: Arcana Chronicles is 7 books, 2012–2023.

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