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Books like Noughts & Crosses: 9 series to read next

Noughts & Crosses is alternate history and science fiction, about race and racism, set in british isles, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Noughts & Crosses is 10 books, 2001–2021.

“Callum is a Nought - an inferior white citizen in a society controlled by the black Crosses.”
from the catalogue description
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Small Change
Dark Gifts
The Thousandth Floor
The Merchant Princes
Gone
Divergent
The Handmaid's Tale
Oxford Time Travel
Zom-B

Small ChangeSeries

seriesJo Walton4 books2006

About totalitarianism, set in mid 20th century.

“As the series begins, Britain itself slides toward fascism.”
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Start with Farthing →

Dark GiftsSeries

seriesVic James3 books2016

Fantasy.

“Our world belongs to the Equals--aristocrats with magical gifts--and all commoners must serve them for ten years.”
from the catalogue description of Gilded Cage

Start with Gilded Cage →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

Set in north america.

“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thousandth Floor →

The Merchant PrincesSeries

seriesCharles Stross14 books2004

Science fantasy, set in parallel universe and our world.

“In the series, there exist a number of parallel worlds, all of which are on the same geographical Earth but with different societies at different points of development.”
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Start with The Family Trade →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

About survival.

“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 →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

About identity, set in north america.

Start with The Transfer →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About totalitarianism and gender and society, set in north america.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Oxford Time TravelSeries

seriesConnie Willis6 books1982

Time travel, about survival, set in europe.

“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Fire Watch →

Zom-BSeries

seriesDarren Shan12 books2012

Zombie horror and post-apocalyptic, about survival.

“B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors of high school, making allegiances with anyone with enough gall to fight off their pursuers.”
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Start with Zom-B →

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 Noughts & Crosses?: Small Change — the closest match to Noughts & Crosses on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Noughts & Crosses?: Noughts & Crosses. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Noughts & Crosses.
How big is Noughts & Crosses?: Noughts & Crosses is 10 books, 2001–2021.

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