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Books like Settling Accounts: 9 series to read next

Settling Accounts is alternate history and war & military, about war, set in north america, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Settling Accounts is 4 books, 2004–2007.

“In the series, the Confederate States defeats the United States of America in the American Civil War, making good its attempt at secession and becoming an independent nation.”
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How Few Remain Universe
Days of Infamy
The War That Came Early
Gettysburg / Civil War Trilogy
The Hot War
The Handmaid's Tale
The Leviathan Trilogy
This Ravenous Fate
Without Warning

How Few Remain UniverseSeries

seriesHarry Turtledove11 books1997

Alternate history, tense in tone, about war and political intrigue, set in north america and early 20th century.

“How Few Remain opens Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory timeline, imagining a North America where the Confederacy won the Civil War.”
from the catalogue description

Start with How Few Remain →

Days of InfamySeries

seriesHarry Turtledove2 books2004

About colonialism.

“Harry Turtledove's Days of Infamy duology reimagines the Pacific theater of World War II with an alternate outcome at Pearl Harbor: a Japanese invasion and occupation of Hawaii rather than a single carrier strike.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Days of Infamy →

The War That Came EarlySeries

seriesHarry Turtledove6 books2009

Set in europe.

“As is typical of Turtledove's alternate histories, the narrative follows a large cast of both fictional and historical characters.”
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Start with Hitler's War →

Gettysburg / Civil War TrilogySeries

seriesNewt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen3 books2003

Set in 19th century.

Start with Gettysburg →

The Hot WarSeries

seriesHarry Turtledove3 books2015

About survival, set in mid 20th century.

“An alternate-history account of the Korean War is set in the aftermath of General MacArthur's decision to drop nuclear bombs on Manchurian cities.”
from the catalogue description of Bombs Away

Start with Bombs Away →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Dystopia, about totalitarianism and gender and society, set in near future.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

The Leviathan TrilogySeries

seriesScott Westerfeld3 books2009

Steampunk, adventurous in tone, about genetic engineering.

“Set in an alternate First World War, Leviathan splits the belligerents into Clankers, who fight with mechanical walkers, and Darwinists, who fight with fabricated living creatures built from spliced DNA.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Leviathan →

This Ravenous FateSeries

seriesHayley Dennings2 books2024

Fantasy and historical fantasy, about vampires and enemies to lovers.

“Eighteen year-old Elise Saint, home after five years in Paris, is the reluctant heir to the empire.”
from the catalogue description

Start with This Ravenous Fate →

Without WarningSeries

seriesJohn Birmingham3 books2008

About survival, set in contemporary.

“The novels After America and Angels of Vengeance continue the story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Without Warning →

Why these

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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 Settling Accounts?: How Few Remain Universe — the closest match to Settling Accounts on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Settling Accounts?: Return Engagement. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Settling Accounts.
How big is Settling Accounts?: Settling Accounts is 4 books, 2004–2007.

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