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Books like Northland: 9 series to read next

Northland is science fiction and alternate history, set in prehistoric. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Northland is 3 books, 2010–2012.

“Bronze Summer and Iron Winter continue the trilogy's what-if premise that human intervention could have kept Doggerland above water.”
from the catalogue description

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Eden (Harry Harrison)
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Tripods
The Lost Millennium
The Triffids
Time's Tapestry
Mortal Engines
Catteni Sequence
Dune

Eden (Harry Harrison)Series

seriesHarry Harrison5 books1984

About war and aliens, set in alternate earth.

“Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy imagines an Earth where the dinosaurs never died out, evolving instead into the Yilane, a technologically advanced reptilian civilization that shares the planet uneasily with early humans.”
from the catalogue description

Start with West of Eden →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic, 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 →

The Lost MillenniumSeries

seriesMike Shepherd4 books1996

Time travel.

Start with Lost Dawns →

The TriffidsSeries

seriesJohn Whitbourn, John Wyndham & Simon Clark3 books1951

Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Day of the Triffids →

Time's TapestrySeries

seriesStephen Baxter4 books2006

Time travel.

“Emperor opens the sequence in Roman-era Britain, and the alternate timeline compounds across the following three novels before a concluding volume gathers the whole arc.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Emperor →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic and steampunk, set in far future.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

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

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Freedom's Landing →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, 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 →

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 Northland?: Eden (Harry Harrison) — the closest match to Northland on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Northland?: Stone Spring. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Northland.
How big is Northland?: Northland is 3 books, 2010–2012.

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