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Books like Fallen World: 9 series to read next

Fallen World is post-apocalyptic and science fiction, about survival and plague and pandemic, set in near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Fallen World is 7 books, 2012–2014.

“Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in.”
from the catalogue description of The Way We Fall

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Maze Runner
The 5th Wave
Last Survivors
The Ashes Trilogy
Ship Breaker
Gone
Shade's Children milieu
Alone (James Phelan)
Tripods

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 →

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion, 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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The 5th Wave →

Last SurvivorsSeries

seriesSusan Beth Pfeffer4 books2006

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

Start with Life As We Knew It →

The Ashes TrilogySeries

seriesIlsa J. Bick3 books2011

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“The trilogy follows one continuous crisis across its three volumes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ashes →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in contemporary.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gone →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution.

Start with Shade's Children →

Alone (James Phelan)Series

seriesJames Phelan3 books2010

Zombie horror, set in big city.

“Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion.”
from the catalogue description of Chasers

Start with Chasers →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

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 Fallen World?: Maze Runner — the closest match to Fallen World on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Fallen World?: The Way We Fall. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Fallen World.
How big is Fallen World?: Fallen World is 7 books, 2012–2014.

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