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Books like The Pure Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Pure Trilogy is science fiction and dystopia, set in our world and far future, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Pure Trilogy is 3 books, 2012–2014.

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The Hunger Games
The Fire Sermon
Ship Breaker
Chaos Walking
Maze Runner
Dayworld
The Birthmarked Trilogy
Shade's Children milieu
The Testing Trilogy

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

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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The Fire SermonSeries

seriesFrancesca Haig3 books2015

About psychic powers.

“Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fire Sermon →

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 →

Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Set in other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

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 →

DayworldSeries

seriesPhilip José Farmer & Danny Adams5 books1971

About identity.

“The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker: someone who lives more than one day a week.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Dayworld →

The Birthmarked TrilogySeries

seriesCaragh M. O'Brien5 books2010

Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, set in far future.

Start with Birthmarked →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

About coming of age, set in near future.

Start with Shade's Children →

The Testing TrilogySeries

seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013

Set in near future.

“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 →

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 Pure Trilogy?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to The Pure Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Pure Trilogy?: Pure. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Pure Trilogy.
How big is The Pure Trilogy?: The Pure Trilogy is 3 books, 2012–2014.

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