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Books like Rot & Ruin: 9 series to read next

Rot & Ruin is zombie horror and post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in near future, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Rot & Ruin is 22 books, 2010–2020.

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The 5th Wave
The Passage
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Shade's Children milieu
The Ashes Trilogy
Gone
The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
Maze Runner
Alone (James Phelan)

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion, about aliens.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The 5th Wave →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

About vampires.

Start with The Passage →

Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

seriesCarrie Ryan9 books2009

Zombie horror and post-apocalyptic, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in near future.

“The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Forest of Hands and Teeth →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution.

Start with Shade's Children →

The Ashes TrilogySeries

seriesIlsa J. Bick3 books2011

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in north america and near future.

“The trilogy follows one continuous crisis across its three volumes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ashes →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

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

“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 →

The Enemy (Charlie Higson)Series

seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009

Set in british isles and big city.

“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 →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Dystopia.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
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Start with The Maze Runner →

Alone (James Phelan)Series

seriesJames Phelan3 books2010

Set in big city.

“Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion.”
from the catalogue description of Chasers

Start with Chasers →

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 Rot & Ruin?: The 5th Wave — the closest match to Rot & Ruin on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Rot & Ruin?: Jack and Jill. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Rot & Ruin.
How big is Rot & Ruin?: Rot & Ruin is 22 books, 2010–2020.

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