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Books like Broken World Universe: 9 series to read next

Broken World Universe is post-apocalyptic. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Broken World Universe is 20 books, 2014–2020.

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The Passage
Night
Shade's Children milieu
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Maze Runner
Earthseed
The Resurgam Trilogy
Tripods
Edge of Collapse

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

Horror, about vampires.

Start with The Passage →

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

Reading order →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia, about coming of age and rebellion and revolution.

Start with Shade's Children →

Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

seriesCarrie Ryan9 books2009

“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 →

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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Maze Runner →

EarthseedSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings7 books1993

Dystopia, about faith and religion.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Parable of the Sower →

The Resurgam TrilogySeries

seriesJoan Frances Turner3 books2010

About undead.

Start with Dust →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

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 →

Edge of CollapseSeries

seriesKyla Stone8 books2019

Post-apocalyptic, set in near future and north america.

“In the dead of winter, an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Edge of Collapse →

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 Broken World Universe?: The Passage — the closest match to Broken World Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Broken World Universe?: Angus. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Broken World Universe.
How big is Broken World Universe?: Broken World Universe is 20 books, 2014–2020.

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