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Books like Ex-Heroes: 9 series to read next

Ex-Heroes is superhero and post-apocalyptic, set in near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Ex-Heroes is 5 books, 2010–2016.

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Shade's Children milieu
The Passage
Earthseed
Night
Dark Inside
Changes
Monument 14
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Maze Runner

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia, about coming of age and rebellion and revolution.

Start with Shade's Children →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

Horror, about vampires.

Start with The Passage →

EarthseedSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings7 books1993

Dystopia, about faith and religion.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Parable of the Sower →

NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

Set in contemporary.

“Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Dark InsideSeries

seriesJeyn Roberts3 books2011

“After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dark Inside →

ChangesSeries

seriesPeter Dickinson3 books1968

Set in british isles.

“After the Changes - From the Twentieth Century to the Dark Ages overnight - such was fate that befell Britain five years from now.”
from the catalogue description of The Weathermonger

Start with The Weathermonger →

Monument 14Series

seriesEmmy Laybourne6 books2012

Start with Dress Your Marines in White →

Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

seriesCarrie Ryan9 books2009

“The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Forest of Hands and Teeth →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Dystopia.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
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Start with The Maze Runner →

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 Ex-Heroes?: Shade's Children milieu — the closest match to Ex-Heroes on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ex-Heroes?: Ex-Heroes. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ex-Heroes.
How big is Ex-Heroes?: Ex-Heroes is 5 books, 2010–2016.

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