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Books like Daniel X: 9 series to read next

Daniel X is science fiction, about aliens, set in contemporary and our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Daniel X is 6 books, 2008–2015.

“The Dangerous Days of Daniel X opens James Patterson's science-fiction series, co-written with Michael Ledwidge, marking Patterson's return to genre science fiction in a similar vein to his Maximum Ride series.”
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Tripods
Jumper
Animorphs
My Teacher Is an Alien
Ready Player One
Needle
Saucer
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The Carls
Cavor

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about rebellion and revolution, set in near future.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

JumperSeries

seriesSteven Gould6 books1992

About psychic powers.

“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
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AnimorphsUniverse

universe66 books1996

Science fantasy, about shapeshifters and war.

“The Yeerks are grey slugs the length of your thumb.”
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My Teacher Is an AlienSeries

seriesBruce Coville4 books1989

“Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird.”
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Start with My Teacher Is an Alien →

Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

About virtual reality and quests, set in virtual world and near future.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
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Start with Ready Player One →

NeedleSeries

seriesHal Clement2 books1950

Hard science fiction.

“Together the mismatched pair must learn to communicate and cooperate, first to survive and later to track down the second alien, which has hidden inside another human in the same Pacific island community.”
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Start with Needle →

SaucerSeries

seriesStephen Coonts3 books2002

Science fiction, adventurous and tense in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary and our world.

“Seismic surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery - a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone.”
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Start with Saucer →

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The CarlsSeries

seriesHank Green2 books2018

First contact, about identity.

Start with An Absolutely Remarkable Thing →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

About space exploration, set in the moon and early 20th century.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
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Start with The First Men in the Moon →

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.

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What should I read after Daniel X?: Tripods — the closest match to Daniel X on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Daniel X?: The Dangerous Days of Daniel X. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Daniel X.
How big is Daniel X?: Daniel X is 6 books, 2008–2015.

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