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Books like Judge Dredd: 9 series to read next

Judge Dredd is science fiction and dystopia, about totalitarianism, set in big city, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Judge Dredd is 75 books across 11 series, 1993–2025.

“Hundreds of millions of citizens stacked in mile-high blocks along the poisoned eastern seaboard, where boredom is a capital offense and crime is the only growth industry.”
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The Handmaid's Tale
A Clockwork Orange
The Circle (Eggers)
Sprawl Trilogy
The Hunger Games
Shadow Children
Space Merchants
Fahrenheit 451
A Song Called Youth / Eclipse

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society and rebellion and revolution.

“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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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Challenging in tone, set in british isles.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
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Start with A Clockwork Orange →

The Circle (Eggers)Series

seriesDave Eggers2 books2013

Dystopia and science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about totalitarianism and surveillance, set in near future and big city.

“Dave Eggers's The Circle follows Mae's rise inside the company as she buys further and further into its ideology, at increasing cost to her own privacy and the people around her.”
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Start with The Circle →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

About artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
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Start with Neuromancer →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution.

“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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Shadow ChildrenSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix7 books1998

“In some cases, a parent may choose to forge a child's identification card so a shadow child can live a normal life.”
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Start with Among the Hidden →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

About class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
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Start with The Space Merchants →

Fahrenheit 451Series

seriesRay Bradbury2 books1951

About books and reading.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fireman →

A Song Called Youth / EclipseSeries

seriesJohn Shirley3 books1985

About rebellion and revolution.

Start with Eclipse →

Why these

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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 Judge Dredd?: The Handmaid's Tale — the closest match to Judge Dredd on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Judge Dredd?: Judge Dredd is 75 books across 11 series, 1993–2025.

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