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Books like The Bone World Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Bone World Trilogy is science fiction, about survival, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Bone World Trilogy is 3 books, 2007–2014.

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The Hunger Games
Maze Runner
The Courier's Daughter Trilogy
Ship Breaker
Mortal Engines
The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)
Gone
The Broken Earth
The Obernewtyn Chronicles

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution and 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

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Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Maze Runner →

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 →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Set in north america and near future.

“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

Start with Ship Breaker →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Steampunk.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
from the catalogue description

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The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)Series

seriesAmbelin Kwaymullina3 books2012

About psychic powers and found family.

“Kwaymullina's debut novel, it tells the story of a nearly utopian world after an apocalypse, where some people have begun to have magical abilities, and are persecuted and detained for it.”
from the catalogue description of The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

Start with The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Set in contemporary.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gone →

The Broken EarthSeries

seriesN. K. Jemisin5 books2014

About ecological collapse.

“N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is set on the Stillness, a single supercontinent wracked every few centuries by civilization-ending climate catastrophes called Fifth Seasons.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fifth Season →

The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

About psychic powers.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
from the catalogue description of Obernewtyn
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Obernewtyn →

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 The Bone World Trilogy?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to The Bone World Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Bone World Trilogy?: The Inferior. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Bone World Trilogy.
How big is The Bone World Trilogy?: The Bone World Trilogy is 3 books, 2007–2014.

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