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Books like Chaos Walking: 9 series to read next

Chaos Walking is science fiction and dystopia, set in other star systems and far future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Chaos Walking is 5 books, 2008–2018.

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The Hunger Games
Dune
Red Rising
Colsec
Takeshi Kovacs
Shade's Children milieu
Matched
The Pure Trilogy
The Handmaid's Tale

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

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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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera.

“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 →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Space opera, about class conflict.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Rising →

ColsecSeries

seriesDouglas Hill3 books1984

Adventurous in tone.

“When a space craft carrying twelve youthful offenders, who have in someway rebelled against the Earth's harshly authoritarian society, crash lands on an alien planet, the six survivors must contend with the planet's hostile life forms.”
from the catalogue description of Exiles of Colsec

Start with Exiles of Colsec →

Takeshi KovacsSeries

seriesRichard Morgan3 books2002

Cyberpunk.

“Takeshi Kovacs is a former elite soldier turned freelance troubleshooter in a future where human consciousness can be digitized and transferred between bodies, or sleeves, making death an inconvenience for those who can afford new ones.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Altered Carbon →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Post-apocalyptic, set in near future.

Start with Shade's Children →

MatchedSeries

seriesAlly Condie3 books2010

Dystopia and science fiction, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in far future.

“Ally Condie's dystopian trilogy follows Cassia, a teenager in a rigidly controlled Society that assigns citizens' spouses, careers, and even manner of death, after a glitch shows her a second face at her own Matching ceremony.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Matched →

The Pure TrilogySeries

seriesJulianna Baggott3 books2012

Set in our world.

Start with Pure →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society, set in north america and near future.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

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 Chaos Walking?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Chaos Walking on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Chaos Walking?: The Knife of Never Letting Go. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Chaos Walking.
How big is Chaos Walking?: Chaos Walking is 5 books, 2008–2018.

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