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Books like School's Out Forever: 9 series to read next

School's Out Forever is set in our world and near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

School's Out Forever is 4 books, 2007–2010.

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Left Behind
Shade's Children milieu
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Tripods
Ship Breaker
The 5th Wave
Dark Inside
Maze Runner
Gone

Left BehindUniverse

universe63 books1995

Dystopia, about faith and religion.

“Pilots vanish from their cockpits, drivers from moving cars, children from their beds, clothing left folded where the faithful stood.”
from the catalogue description

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Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia.

Start with Shade's Children →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about aliens.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

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

“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 →

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 →

Dark InsideSeries

seriesJeyn Roberts3 books2011

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, about survival, set in our world and near future.

“After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dark Inside →

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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Maze Runner →

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 →

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 School's Out Forever?: Left Behind — the closest match to School's Out Forever on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with School's Out Forever?: School's Out. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for School's Out Forever.
How big is School's Out Forever?: School's Out Forever is 4 books, 2007–2010.

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