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Books like Maximum Ride: 9 series to read next

Maximum Ride is science fiction and science fantasy, about genetic engineering, set in our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Maximum Ride is 12 books, 2005–2021.

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Jumper
Tripods
TimeRiders
Watership Down
Richard Forthrast
The Undertow Trilogy
Left Behind
Renegades (Marissa Meyer)
Kairos

JumperSeries

seriesSteven Gould6 books1992

About psychic powers.

“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 →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

TimeRidersSeries

seriesAlex Scarrow9 books2010

Time travel.

“Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past.That's why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with TimeRiders →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

Fantasy, about quests, 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 →

Richard ForthrastSeries

seriesNeal Stephenson2 books2011

About virtual reality, set in 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 →

The Undertow TrilogySeries

seriesMichael Buckley3 books2015

About war.

“A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island.”
from the catalogue description of Undertow

Start with Undertow →

Left BehindUniverse

universe63 books1995

Dystopia, about faith and religion.

“Pilots vanish from their cockpits, drivers from moving cars, children from their beds, clothing left folded where the faithful stood.”
from the catalogue description

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Renegades (Marissa Meyer)Series

seriesMarissa Meyer3 books2017

Superhero, about identity, set in big city.

“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 →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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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 Maximum Ride?: Jumper — the closest match to Maximum Ride on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Maximum Ride?: The Angel Experiment. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Maximum Ride.
How big is Maximum Ride?: Maximum Ride is 12 books, 2005–2021.

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