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Books like Guys Read: 9 series to read next

Guys Read is set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Guys Read is 5 books, 1946–2017.

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Kairos
Watership Down
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Spinouts anthologies
Bayonet Books Anthologies
Richard Forthrast
Alliance-Union
Tripods
The Norumbegan Quartet

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests and found family, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

Spinouts anthologiesSeries

seriesMeredith Costain & Paul Collins45 books1999

Set in our world and contemporary.

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Bayonet Books AnthologiesSeries

seriesuncredited, J. R. Handley, Jesse James Fain & Matthew A. Goodwin19 books2019

Science fiction.

Start with Contact This!: A First Contact Anthology →

Richard ForthrastSeries

seriesNeal Stephenson2 books2011

About virtual reality, set in north america and virtual world.

“The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Reamde →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about rebellion and revolution, set in near future.

“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
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

The Norumbegan QuartetSeries

seriesM. T. Anderson4 books2004

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

Start with The Game of Sunken Places →

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 Guys Read?: Kairos — the closest match to Guys Read on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Guys Read?: Frost and Fire. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Guys Read.
How big is Guys Read?: Guys Read is 5 books, 1946–2017.

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