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Books like Mortal Engines Prequels: 9 series to read next

Mortal Engines Prequels is science fiction and steampunk, about coming of age, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Mortal Engines Prequels is 3 books, 2009–2011.

“The books follow a young woman known as Fever Crumb, and her adventures set around the time of the creation of the first traction cities that become prevalent in the Mortal Engines series.”
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The Obernewtyn Chronicles
WondLa
The Hunger Games
Narnia
His Dark Materials
The Giver
Hiero Desteen Universe
Grishaverse
Tripods

The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

Fantasy, about psychic powers.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
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Start with Obernewtyn →

WondLaSeries

seriesTony DiTerlizzi3 books2010

Fantasy, about aliens, set in other star systems.

“Tony DiTerlizzi's WondLa trilogy follows Eva Nine, a twelve-year-old girl raised in isolation underground by a robot guardian, who emerges onto a surface world populated by strange alien life and sets out to find others like herself.”
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Start with The Search for WondLa →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in 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.”
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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Fantasy and portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Fantasy, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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The GiverSeries

seriesLois Lowry5 books1993

Dystopia.

“Each book has a different protagonist but is set in the same futuristic era.”
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Start with The Giver →

Hiero Desteen UniverseSeries

seriesSterling E. Lanier & Lucy Andrews Cummin3 books1973

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in far future.

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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy.

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

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

About aliens and rebellion and revolution, set in our world and near future.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

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 Mortal Engines Prequels?: The Obernewtyn Chronicles — the closest match to Mortal Engines Prequels on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mortal Engines Prequels?: Fever Crumb. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mortal Engines Prequels.
How big is Mortal Engines Prequels?: Mortal Engines Prequels is 3 books, 2009–2011.

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