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Books like Mystery Babylon: 9 series to read next

Mystery Babylon is 10 books, 2021–2026.

“A quiet, reclusive stranger has moved to the tiny Southeast Alaskan island she calls home.”
from the catalogue description of The Bear

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The Change / The Event
Dune
Stephen King multiverse
Left Behind
Sword of Truth
One Second After / John Matherson
His Dark Materials
Cosmere
Shannara

The Change / The EventSeries

seriesS. M. Stirling, A. M. Dellamonica, Diana L. Paxson, Emily Mah, Harry Turtledove, Jane Lindskold, Jody Lynn Nye, John Barnes, John Birmingham, John J. Miller, Kier Salmon, Lauren C. Teffeau, M. T. Reiten, Terry England, Victor Milán & Walter Jon Williams41 books1998

Adventurous in tone.

“Sixteen different authors, coordinated by Stirling, each contribute stories set in various corners of the suddenly de-industrialized world as survivors scramble to rebuild.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in far future and other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

Left BehindUniverse

universe63 books1995

Dystopia, set in near future.

“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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Sword of TruthUniverse

universe27 books1994

Epic fantasy.

“Truth is a blade, and it cuts the hand that grips it carelessly.”
from the catalogue description

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One Second After / John MathersonSeries

seriesWilliam R. Forstchen4 books2009

Set in near future and small town.

Start with One Second After →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, 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.”
from the catalogue description

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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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Why these

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What should I read after Mystery Babylon?: The Change / The Event — the closest match to Mystery Babylon on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mystery Babylon?: The Bear. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mystery Babylon.
How big is Mystery Babylon?: Mystery Babylon is 10 books, 2021–2026.

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