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Books like Icarus Project: 9 series to read next

Icarus Project is superhero and science fiction, about friendship, set in contemporary, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Icarus Project is 2 books, 2009–2010.

“The second book, Shades of Gray, was released in June 2010.”
from the catalogue description of Black and White

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Renegades (Marissa Meyer)
The Andromeda Strain
Jumper
The Fury
The Merchant Princes
The Extraordinaries (TJ Klune)
Cas Russell / Russell's Attic
Rosemary Reilly
The Missing

Renegades (Marissa Meyer)Series

seriesMarissa Meyer3 books2017

Set in near future.

“Marissa Meyer's trilogy, continuing through Archenemies and Supernova, plays the two factions' history against the leads' divided loyalties; Meyer has said she doesn't plan to extend the series further.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Renegades →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

About plague and pandemic and survival.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

JumperSeries

seriesSteven Gould6 books1992

“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Jumper →

The FurySeries

seriesJohn Farris4 books1976

Thriller & suspense, tense in tone, about psychic powers, set in contemporary.

“John Farris's The Fury centers on a teenage girl and boy with escalating psychic and telekinetic powers who become targets of a covert government program trying to weaponize them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fury →

The Merchant PrincesSeries

seriesCharles Stross14 books2004

Science fantasy and alternate history, about political intrigue, set in parallel universe.

“In the series, there exist a number of parallel worlds, all of which are on the same geographical Earth but with different societies at different points of development.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Family Trade →

The Extraordinaries (TJ Klune)Series

seriesTJ Klune3 books2020

Lighthearted in tone, about coming of age.

“The Extraordinaries follows Nick Bell, a fanfiction-writing teenager with ADHD who is infatuated with his city's resident superhero, Shadow Star, and decides the only way to get noticed is to become extraordinary himself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Extraordinaries →

Cas Russell / Russell's AtticSeries

seriesS. L. Huang5 books2014

Set in near future.

“The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price.”
from the catalogue description of Zero Sum Game

Start with Zero Sum Game →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

Horror, about demons and parenthood.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Rosemary's Baby →

The MissingSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix10 books2008

Time travel, about coming of age.

“Jonah Skidmore is one of the stolen children, and he, along with his non-adopted sister Katherine, must help return the missing kids to their rightful places in history and fix time before it is destroyed.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Found →

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 Icarus Project?: Renegades (Marissa Meyer) — the closest match to Icarus Project on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Icarus Project?: Black and White. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Icarus Project.
How big is Icarus Project?: Icarus Project is 2 books, 2009–2010.

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