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Books like Rats: 9 series to read next

Rats is horror, about survival, set in contemporary and british isles, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Rats is 4 books, 1974–1994.

“The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror.”
from the catalogue description

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The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
The Strain
Jerusalem's Lot
The Andromeda Strain
They Thirst
Peeps
The Passage
Zom-B
Desperation/Regulators

The Enemy (Charlie Higson)Series

seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009

Zombie horror, about coming of age.

“The Enemy opens Charlie Higson's seven-book YA horror series, set in London after a mysterious sickness turns every adult into a voracious, flesh-hungry threat and leaves children to fend for themselves in a city gone feral.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Enemy →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires, set in north america.

“When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK Airport with nearly everyone aboard dead, CDC epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather is called in and instead uncovers a vampiric plague beginning to spread through New York City.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Strain →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in small town and north america.

“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
from the catalogue description

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

Science fiction, tense in tone, about survival and plague and pandemic, set in contemporary.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

About vampires, set in north america.

“In Robert R. McCammon's They Thirst, an ancient vampire prince arrives in Los Angeles and, in a matter of nights, begins turning the city into a stronghold for the undead, with Disneyland as an eerie staging ground for his conquest.”
from the catalogue description

Start with They Thirst →

PeepsSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld2 books2005

Set in north america.

“The apocalyptic threat to the world that begins in Peeps continues in The Last Days, which features some of the same characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peeps →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

About vampires, set in north america and near future.

Start with The Passage →

Zom-BSeries

seriesDarren Shan12 books2012

Zombie horror, about race and racism.

“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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About madness, set in north america and small town.

“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Desperation →

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 Rats?: The Enemy (Charlie Higson) — the closest match to Rats on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Rats?: The Rats. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Rats.
How big is Rats?: Rats is 4 books, 1974–1994.
Is Rats finished?: Yes — 4 books, 1974–1994.

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