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Books like Holdfast Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Holdfast Chronicles is science fiction and dystopia, about gender and society, set in far future, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Holdfast Chronicles is 4 books, 1974–1999.

“Set in a devastated future where gender relations have been violently reorganized, the series is a touchstone of feminist SF recognized with the James Tiptree Jr. Award and induction into the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame.”
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The Hunger Games
Brave New World
The Giver
The Fire Sermon
The Handmaid's Tale
Dune
The Pure Trilogy
Chaos Walking
Mortal Engines

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Tense in tone, about totalitarianism, set in north america.

“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.”
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Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Science fiction and dystopia, about class conflict, set in far future and otherworld.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
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The GiverSeries

seriesLois Lowry5 books1993

“Each book has a different protagonist but is set in the same futuristic era.”
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The Fire SermonSeries

seriesFrancesca Haig3 books2015

Tense in tone, about psychic powers, set in our world.

“Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature.”
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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Tense in tone, about totalitarianism, set in north america and near future.

“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.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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The Pure TrilogySeries

seriesJulianna Baggott3 books2012

Tense in tone, set in our world.

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Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Tense in tone, set in other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Steampunk, adventurous in tone.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
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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.

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What should I read after Holdfast Chronicles?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Holdfast Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Holdfast Chronicles?: Walk to the End of the World. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Holdfast Chronicles.
How big is Holdfast Chronicles?: Holdfast Chronicles is 4 books, 1974–1999.
Is Holdfast Chronicles finished?: Yes — 4 books, 1974–1999.

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