Series

Books like Lone City: 9 series to read next

Lone City is dystopia and science fiction, about class conflict, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Lone City is 3 books, 2014–2016.

“Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.”
from the catalogue description of The Jewel

The Lone City page →Narrow this list →

Red Queen
The Pledge
The Hunger Games
The Courier's Daughter Trilogy
An Ember in the Ashes
Grishaverse
New Crobuzon
World of Ice and Fire
We Set the Dark on Fire

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Fantasy.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

The PledgeSeries

seriesKimberly Derting3 books2011

Dystopia and science fiction, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution and class conflict, set in secondary world.

Start with The Pledge →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About survival and totalitarianism, set in far future and 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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries

seriesC. J. Redwine3 books2012

About survival.

“Set in a walled, post-collapse city ruled by rigid survival laws, it follows a young woman searching for her missing father against the city's authorities and the monstrous forces beyond its walls.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Defiance →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Fantasy and epic fantasy.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

New CrobuzonSeries

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Weird fiction and fantasy, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Perdido Street Station →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy and fantasy, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

We Set the Dark on FireSeries

seriesTehlor Kay Mejia2 books2019

Fantasy.

Start with We Set the Dark on Fire →

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 Lone City?: Red Queen — the closest match to Lone City on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Lone City?: The Jewel. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Lone City.
How big is Lone City?: Lone City is 3 books, 2014–2016.

Books like Lone City: 9 series to read next

Read next in Lone City

Why these

Questions readers ask

Other series like this one