Series

Books like Tao: 9 series to read next

Tao is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Tao is 4 books, 2013–2016.

H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Jumper
Needle
Animorphs
Daniel X
Richard Forthrast
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The Carls
My Teacher Is an Alien
The Themis Files

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 →

JumperSeries

seriesSteven Gould6 books1992

About psychic powers.

“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Jumper →

NeedleSeries

seriesHal Clement2 books1950

Hard science fiction.

“Together the mismatched pair must learn to communicate and cooperate, first to survive and later to track down the second alien, which has hidden inside another human in the same Pacific island community.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Needle →

AnimorphsUniverse

universe66 books1996

Science fantasy, about shapeshifters and coming of age.

“The Yeerks are grey slugs the length of your thumb.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Daniel XSeries

seriesJames Patterson, Chris Grabenstein, Ned Rust, Adam Sadler & Michael Ledwidge6 books2008

“The Dangerous Days of Daniel X opens James Patterson's science-fiction series, co-written with Michael Ledwidge, marking Patterson's return to genre science fiction in a similar vein to his Maximum Ride series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Dangerous Days of Daniel X →

Richard ForthrastSeries

seriesNeal Stephenson2 books2011

About virtual reality, set in north america and virtual world.

“The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Reamde →

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The CarlsSeries

seriesHank Green2 books2018

First contact, set in north america.

Start with An Absolutely Remarkable Thing →

My Teacher Is an AlienSeries

seriesBruce Coville4 books1989

“Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with My Teacher Is an Alien →

The Themis FilesSeries

seriesSylvain Neuvel3 books2015

Mysterious in tone, about robots.

“Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sleeping Giants →

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 Tao?: H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds — the closest match to Tao on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Tao?: The Lives of Tao. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Tao.
How big is Tao?: Tao is 4 books, 2013–2016.

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