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Books like The Pledge: 9 series to read next

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

The Pledge is 3 books, 2011–2013.

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Red Queen
Lone City
The Hunger Games
An Ember in the Ashes
The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)
We Set the Dark on Fire
Grishaverse
The Testing Trilogy
The Courier's Daughter Trilogy

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Dystopia and fantasy, tense and dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution and class conflict, set in secondary world.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

Lone CitySeries

seriesAmy Ewing3 books2014

Dystopia and science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution and class conflict, set in secondary world.

“Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.”
from the catalogue description of The Jewel

Start with The Jewel →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About survival, set in far future and 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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An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)Series

seriesAmbelin Kwaymullina3 books2012

About 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 →

We Set the Dark on FireSeries

seriesTehlor Kay Mejia2 books2019

Fantasy, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

Start with We Set the Dark on Fire →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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The Testing TrilogySeries

seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013

About survival.

“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 →

The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries

seriesC. J. Redwine3 books2012

About survival.

“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 →

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 Pledge?: Red Queen — the closest match to The Pledge on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Pledge?: The Pledge. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Pledge.
How big is The Pledge?: The Pledge is 3 books, 2011–2013.

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