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Books like Ship Breaker: 9 series to read next

Ship Breaker is science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in north america, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Ship Breaker is 3 books, 2010–2017.

“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

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The Hunger Games
Maze Runner
Shade's Children milieu
The 5th Wave
The Ashes Trilogy
Tripods
Earthseed
The Passage
Unwind Dystology

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About 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

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Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

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

“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 →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

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

Start with Shade's Children →

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 Ashes TrilogySeries

seriesIlsa J. Bick3 books2011

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

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

Start with Ashes →

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 →

EarthseedSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings7 books1993

About faith and religion.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Parable of the Sower →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

Horror, about vampires.

Start with The Passage →

Unwind DystologySeries

seriesNeal Shusterman5 books2007

Science fiction and dystopia, tense and dark in tone, about genetic engineering, set in near future and north america.

“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Unwind →

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 Ship Breaker?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Ship Breaker on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ship Breaker?: Ship Breaker. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ship Breaker.
How big is Ship Breaker?: Ship Breaker is 3 books, 2010–2017.

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