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Books like The Loop: 9 series to read next

The Loop is science fiction and dystopia, set in near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Loop is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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Space Merchants
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Maze Runner
Shade's Children milieu
The Testing Trilogy
Juliette / Shatter Me
A Clockwork Orange
Shadow Children
Escape from Furnace

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

About class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Space Merchants →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Post-apocalyptic.

“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 →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Post-apocalyptic, about coming of age and rebellion and revolution.

Start with Shade's Children →

The Testing TrilogySeries

seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013

About political intrigue.

“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 →

Juliette / Shatter MeSeries

seriesTahereh Mafi16 books2011

Science fiction and dystopia, set in near future.

“Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series follows Juliette, a teenager whose touch is lethally dangerous, in a dystopian future.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Shatter Me →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Challenging in tone, set in big city and british isles.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

Shadow ChildrenSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix7 books1998

Set in north america.

“In some cases, a parent may choose to forge a child's identification card so a shadow child can live a normal life.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Among the Hidden →

Escape from FurnaceSeries

seriesAlexander Gordon Smith6 books2009

Science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival and prison escape, set in near future.

Start with Lockdown →

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 Loop?: Space Merchants — the closest match to The Loop on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Loop?: The Loop. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Loop.
How big is The Loop?: The Loop is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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