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Forgotten Forbidden America is set in north america and near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Forgotten Forbidden America is 8 books, 2015–2021.

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The Hunger Games
The Handmaid's Tale
Earthseed
Directive 51 / Daybreak
One Second After / John Matherson
The Darkest Minds
The Passage
Divergent
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

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

Reading order →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About 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 →

EarthseedSeries

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

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 →

Directive 51 / DaybreakSeries

seriesJohn Barnes3 books2010

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 →

One Second After / John MathersonSeries

seriesWilliam R. Forstchen4 books2009

Set in small town.

Start with One Second After →

The Darkest MindsSeries

seriesAlexandra Bracken8 books2012

About psychic powers.

“When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Darkest Minds →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

Horror, about vampires.

Start with The Passage →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

About identity, set in big city.

Start with The Transfer →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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What should I read after Forgotten Forbidden America?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Forgotten Forbidden America on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Forgotten Forbidden America?: Rise of Tyranny. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Forgotten Forbidden America.
How big is Forgotten Forbidden America?: Forgotten Forbidden America is 8 books, 2015–2021.

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