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Books like Dream Traveler: 9 series to read next

Dream Traveler is fantasy and science fiction, about genetic engineering, set in our world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dream Traveler is 19 books across 6 series, 2014–2021.

“There they gather, train, scheme, and hunt, each carrying a talent the ordinary never suspect: to read minds, to move objects, to glimpse what has not yet happened.”
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Shade's Children milieu
The Hunger Games
The Handmaid's Tale
Unwind Dystology
Divergent
Chaos Walking
Juliette / Shatter Me
Midnighters
A Clockwork Orange

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Post-apocalyptic.

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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About totalitarianism, set in far future.

“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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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About totalitarianism and gender and society.

“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 →

Unwind DystologySeries

seriesNeal Shusterman5 books2007

Science fiction and dystopia, tense and dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution and genetic engineering, set in near future.

“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Unwind →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about identity, set in near future and north america.

Start with The Transfer →

Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Set in other star systems and far future.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

Juliette / Shatter MeSeries

seriesTahereh Mafi16 books2011

Science fiction and dystopia, set in near future.

“Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series follows Juliette, a teenager whose touch is lethally dangerous, in a dystopian future.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Shatter Me →

MidnightersSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld3 books2004

Fantasy and urban fantasy, tense in tone, about psychic powers, set in contemporary and our world.

“Over the course of the trilogy, Jessica encounters other Midnighters with whom she allies herself.”
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Start with The Secret Hour →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Challenging in tone, about totalitarianism and surveillance, set in british isles.

“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 →

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.

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What should I read after Dream Traveler?: Shade's Children milieu — the closest match to Dream Traveler on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Dream Traveler?: Dream Traveler is 19 books across 6 series, 2014–2021.

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