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Books like Maze Runner: 9 series to read next

Maze Runner is science fiction and dystopia, about survival, set in near future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Maze Runner is 11 books, 2009–2025.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
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The Hunger Games
Ship Breaker
Shade's Children milieu
The Testing Trilogy
The 5th Wave
Earthseed
The Chemical Garden Trilogy
Gone
The Ashes Trilogy

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia and science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in north america and far future.

“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

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Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

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Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Science fiction and dystopia, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in near future.

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The Testing TrilogySeries

seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013

About political intrigue.

“Joelle Charbonneau's Testing trilogy is set generations after a war has wrecked the world's governments and resources, when a rebuilt society selects its most promising graduates for the Testing, a competition meant to find future leaders.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Testing →

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion, about aliens.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The 5th Wave →

EarthseedSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings7 books1993

About faith and religion.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Parable of the Sower →

The Chemical Garden TrilogySeries

seriesLauren DeStefano3 books2011

About genetic engineering.

“Publisher's Note: By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live.”
from the catalogue description of Wither

Start with Wither →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Set in contemporary.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gone →

The Ashes TrilogySeries

seriesIlsa J. Bick3 books2011

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“The trilogy follows one continuous crisis across its three volumes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ashes →

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Maze Runner?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Maze Runner on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Maze Runner?: The Maze Runner. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Maze Runner.
How big is Maze Runner?: Maze Runner is 11 books, 2009–2025.

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