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Books like Passenger: 9 series to read next

Passenger is time travel, about quests and forbidden love, set in our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Passenger is 2 books, 2016–2017.

“Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the Colonies-and the servitude he's known at their hands.”
from the catalogue description of Passenger

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The Girl from Everywhere
The Mortal Instruments
Watership Down
Kairos
Zulu Nation
Hourglass Door
His Dark Materials
Ready Player One
Both Sides of Time

The Girl from EverywhereSeries

seriesHeidi Heilig2 books2016

About coming of age.

“Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's ship.”
from the catalogue description

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The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue description

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Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About survival and found family, set in countryside & village and contemporary.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

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KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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Zulu NationSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard1 book1892

Historical fiction and adventure, set in africa.

“H. Rider Haggard's Nada the Lily is set during the rise of the Zulu king Shaka, following Umslopogaas, Shaka's unacknowledged son, and his love for the celebrated beauty Nada.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Nada the Lily →

Hourglass DoorSeries

seriesLisa Mangum3 books2009

Set in contemporary.

“Dante, a prisoner sent from fifteenth-century Italy into the present time as punishment, meets and falls in love with Abby, a high school senior who may be the only one who can save him.”
from the catalogue description of The Hourglass Door

Start with The Hourglass Door →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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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Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Cyberpunk, about virtual reality, set in virtual world and near future.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ready Player One →

Both Sides of TimeSeries

seriesCaroline B. Cooney4 books1995

Time travel and romance, emotional in tone, about forbidden love, set in our world.

“The summer after her senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s and it is indeed romantic-- and very painful.”
from the catalogue description
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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 Passenger?: The Girl from Everywhere — the closest match to Passenger on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Passenger?: Passenger. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Passenger.
How big is Passenger?: Passenger is 2 books, 2016–2017.

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