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Books like Silo: 9 series to read next

Silo is science fiction and dystopia, about rebellion and revolution, set in our world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Silo is 44 books across 11 series, 2011–2018.

“The world is the Silo: a hundred and forty-four levels of concrete sunk into poisoned earth, and everyone who has ever lived lives in it.”
from the catalogue description

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The Hunger Games
Shade's Children milieu
The Pure Trilogy
The Handmaid's Tale
Chaos Walking
The Declaration
Dayworld
Red Rising
The Fire Sermon

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

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.”
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Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

About coming of age.

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The Pure TrilogySeries

seriesJulianna Baggott3 books2012

Science fiction and dystopia, dark and tense in tone, set in our world and far future.

Start with Pure →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society, set in north america.

“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

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Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Set in other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

The DeclarationSeries

seriesGemma Malley4 books2007

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DayworldSeries

seriesPhilip José Farmer & Danny Adams5 books1971

About identity.

“The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker: someone who lives more than one day a week.”
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Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Space opera, 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.”
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The Fire SermonSeries

seriesFrancesca Haig3 books2015

About psychic powers.

“Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature.”
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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 Silo?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Silo on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Silo?: Silo is 44 books across 11 series, 2011–2018.

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