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Books like The Obernewtyn Chronicles: 9 series to read next

The Obernewtyn Chronicles is post-apocalyptic and science fiction, about psychic powers, set in far future and secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Obernewtyn Chronicles is 9 books, 1987–2015.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
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The 100
Chaos Walking
The Hunger Games
Dune
Hiero Desteen Universe
Tripods
Shade's Children milieu
The Fire Sermon
Mortal Engines

The 100Series

seriesKass Morgan4 books2013

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, tense in tone, about survival, set in far future.

“Day 21, its sequel, was released on September 25, 2014, and Homecoming was released on February 26, 2015.”
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Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Dystopia, set in other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, 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.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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Start with Dune →

Hiero Desteen UniverseSeries

seriesSterling E. Lanier & Lucy Andrews Cummin3 books1973

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in far future.

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TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution, set in near future.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution, set in near future.

Start with Shade's Children →

The Fire SermonSeries

seriesFrancesca Haig3 books2015

Dystopia.

“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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Start with The Fire Sermon →

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.”
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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 The Obernewtyn Chronicles?: The 100 — the closest match to The Obernewtyn Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Obernewtyn Chronicles?: Obernewtyn. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Obernewtyn Chronicles.
How big is The Obernewtyn Chronicles?: The Obernewtyn Chronicles is 9 books, 1987–2015.

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