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Books like Avatars: 9 series to read next

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

Avatars is 3 books, 2006–2008.

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Ship Breaker
Maze Runner
The 5th Wave
Shade's Children milieu
Blood of Eden
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Gone
Arcana Chronicles
The Ashes Trilogy

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“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

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Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

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 →

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

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

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Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution.

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Blood of EdenSeries

seriesJulie Kagawa4 books2012

About vampires.

Start with The Immortal Rules →

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 →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary.

“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

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Arcana ChroniclesSeries

seriesKresley Cole7 books2012

Post-apocalyptic, set in near future and our world.

“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

Start with Day Zero →

The Ashes TrilogySeries

seriesIlsa J. Bick3 books2011

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“The trilogy follows one continuous crisis across its three volumes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ashes →

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 Avatars?: Ship Breaker — the closest match to Avatars on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Avatars?: So This Is How It Ends. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Avatars.
How big is Avatars?: Avatars is 3 books, 2006–2008.

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