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Books like Sand: 9 series to read next

Sand is science fiction and post-apocalyptic, set in far future and desert. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sand is 8 books across 2 series, 2013–2022.

“Beneath it lie the ruins of everything that came before — and the divers desperate enough to go down after it.”
from the catalogue description

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The Triffids
The Hunger Games
Dune
Ship Breaker
Saint Leibowitz
Maze Runner
Forge of God
Mortal Engines
Last Survivors

The TriffidsSeries

seriesJohn Whitbourn, John Wyndham & Simon Clark3 books1951

Set in british isles.

“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 →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution and totalitarianism.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in 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 →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

Saint LeibowitzSeries

seriesWalter M. Miller & Jr.6 books1955

About faith and religion.

“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

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 →

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

About aliens.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
from the catalogue description of The Forge of God

Start with The Forge of God →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Steampunk, adventurous in tone.

“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 →

Last SurvivorsSeries

seriesSusan Beth Pfeffer4 books2006

Start with Life As We Knew It →

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.

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What should I read after Sand?: The Triffids — the closest match to Sand on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Sand?: Sand is 8 books across 2 series, 2013–2022.

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