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Books like Brave New World: 9 series to read next

Brave New World is science fiction and dystopia, about class conflict, set in far future and otherworld. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Brave New World is 8 books, 1932–2011.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
from the catalogue description

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A Clockwork Orange
The Hunger Games
Space Merchants
Dayworld
Dune
Urban Monad
The Pure Trilogy
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Fahrenheit 451

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Set in near future.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in north america.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
from the catalogue description

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Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Set in near future and venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Space Merchants →

DayworldSeries

seriesPhilip José Farmer & Danny Adams5 books1971

Tense in tone.

“The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker: someone who lives more than one day a week.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Dayworld →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in 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 →

Urban MonadSeries

seriesRobert Silverberg7 books1970

Science fiction and dystopia, set in far future.

“Moving between residents of one tower, the linked stories examine a tightly regulated, sexually permissive society engineered to cope with constant population growth, and the discontent that surfaces underneath it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Happy Day in 2381 →

The Pure TrilogySeries

seriesJulianna Baggott3 books2012

Tense in tone.

Start with Pure →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

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 →

Fahrenheit 451Series

seriesRay Bradbury2 books1951

About books and reading, set in north america and near future.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fireman →

Why these

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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 Brave New World?: A Clockwork Orange — the closest match to Brave New World on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Brave New World?: Brave New World. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Brave New World.
How big is Brave New World?: Brave New World is 8 books, 1932–2011.

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