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Books like Shadow Fall: 9 series to read next

Shadow Fall is dystopia and science fiction, about rebellion and revolution, set in far future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Shadow Fall is 3 books, 2016–2020.

“My name is Maia Graystone: prisoner, rebel, and reluctant savior of a dying world.”
from the catalogue description of Shadow Fall

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The Hunger Games
Chaos Walking
The Internment Chronicles
Red Rising
The Testing Trilogy
To the Stars (Harrison)
Red Queen
Dune
The Courier's Daughter Trilogy

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About totalitarianism, set in north america.

“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 →

Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Dystopia and science fiction, tense and dark in tone, set in far future and other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

The Internment ChroniclesSeries

seriesLauren DeStefano5 books2013

Dystopia and science fiction, tense in tone, set in secondary world and far future.

Start with Perfect Ruin →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

About class conflict.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Rising →

The Testing TrilogySeries

seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013

Set in near future.

“Joelle Charbonneau's Testing trilogy is set generations after a war has wrecked the world's governments and resources, when a rebuilt society selects its most promising graduates for the Testing, a competition meant to find future leaders.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Testing →

To the Stars (Harrison)Series

seriesHarry Harrison3 books1980

Dystopia and science fiction, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in far future and other star systems.

“One of the elite stumbles onto the knowledge that news and opinions are being carefully managed to whitewash the situation, which leads him to throw his lot in with those who oppose it.”
from the catalogue description of Homeworld
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Start with Homeworld →

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Fantasy, about class conflict.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and 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 →

The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries

seriesC. J. Redwine3 books2012

About forbidden love.

“Set in a walled, post-collapse city ruled by rigid survival laws, it follows a young woman searching for her missing father against the city's authorities and the monstrous forces beyond its walls.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Defiance →

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 Shadow Fall?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Shadow Fall on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Shadow Fall?: Shadow Fall. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Shadow Fall.
How big is Shadow Fall?: Shadow Fall is 3 books, 2016–2020.

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