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Books like Earthseed: 9 series to read next

Earthseed is science fiction and dystopia, about survival, set in north america, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Earthseed is 7 books, 1993–2025.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
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The Handmaid's Tale
MaddAddam
The Hunger Games
The Passage
Directive 51 / Daybreak
Ship Breaker
The 5th Wave
Space Merchants
A Clockwork Orange

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Tense in tone, about gender and society and rebellion and revolution.

“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.”
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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

MaddAddamSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books2003

About genetic engineering.

Start with Oryx and Crake →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution, 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.”
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The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

Horror, tense in tone, about vampires.

Start with The Passage →

Directive 51 / DaybreakSeries

seriesJohn Barnes3 books2010

Tense in tone, about political intrigue.

“The resulting collapse triggers mass death, a crisis over presidential succession, and mysterious Moon-launched fusion strikes on Washington and Chicago, while a shadowy neofeudalist movement moves into the vacuum.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Directive 51 →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Tense in tone.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
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Start with Ship Breaker →

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
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Start with The 5th Wave →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Set in 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 →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Challenging in tone, about surveillance, set in our world and big city.

“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

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 Earthseed?: The Handmaid's Tale — the closest match to Earthseed on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Earthseed?: Parable of the Sower. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Earthseed.
How big is Earthseed?: Earthseed is 7 books, 1993–2025.

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