Series
Books like Escape from Furnace: 9 series to read next
Escape from Furnace is science fiction, about survival and prison escape, set in near future, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.
Escape from Furnace is 6 books, 2009–2011.
- Maze Runner
- Shade's Children milieu
- The Hunger Games
- The Compound
- The Testing Trilogy
- Ship Breaker
- The Passage
- The Chemical Garden Trilogy
- Shadow Children
- Maze RunnerSeries
seriesJames Dashner11 books2009
Post-apocalyptic.
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- Shade's Children milieuSeries
seriesGarth Nix2 books1997
Post-apocalyptic, about coming of age.
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- The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Set in far future and north america.
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- The CompoundSeries
seriesS. A. Bodeen2 books2008
About family secrets.
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- The Testing TrilogySeries
seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013
About political intrigue.
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- Ship BreakerSeries
seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010
Post-apocalyptic, set in north america.
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- The PassageSeries
seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010
Post-apocalyptic, about vampires, set in north america.
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seriesLauren DeStefano3 books2011
About plague and pandemic, set in north america.
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- Shadow ChildrenSeries
seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix7 books1998
Set in north america.
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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 Escape from Furnace?
- Maze Runner — the closest match to Escape from Furnace on what it is about, not on what sells.
- Where do I start with Escape from Furnace?
- Lockdown. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Escape from Furnace.
- How big is Escape from Furnace?
- Escape from Furnace is 6 books, 2009–2011.