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Books like The Selection: 9 series to read next

The Selection is romance and dystopia, about love triangle, set in near future, emotional in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Selection is 12 books, 2012–2016.

“Cass continued her writing career, rewriting and releasing her 2008 online novel, The Siren.”
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Juliette / Shatter Me
Glitter
Divergent
The Thousandth Floor
Matched
Death-Cast
Delirium (Lauren Oliver)
Ready Player One
The Handmaid's Tale

Juliette / Shatter MeSeries

seriesTahereh Mafi16 books2011

Dystopia and science fiction, set in near future.

“Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series follows Juliette, a teenager whose touch is lethally dangerous, in a dystopian future.”
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Start with Shatter Me →

GlitterSeries

seriesAprilynne Pike2 books2016

Dystopia and science fiction, tense in tone, set in near future.

Start with Glitter →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

About identity, set in big city.

Start with The Transfer →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

Set in big city.

“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
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Start with The Thousandth Floor →

MatchedSeries

seriesAlly Condie3 books2010

“Ally Condie's dystopian trilogy follows Cassia, a teenager in a rigidly controlled Society that assigns citizens' spouses, careers, and even manner of death, after a glitch shows her a second face at her own Matching ceremony.”
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Start with Matched →

Death-CastSeries

seriesAdam Silvera3 books2017

Sad in tone, about friendship and grief and loss.

“Adam Silvera's novel became a viral hit years after its original release, later gaining a prequel and further entries exploring other characters within the same premise.”
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Start with The First to Die at the End →

Delirium (Lauren Oliver)Series

seriesLauren Oliver11 books2011

Dystopia and science fiction.

“Companion novellas fill in supporting characters' perspectives alongside the main trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Annabel →

Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Adventurous in tone, about virtual reality and quests, set in virtual world.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
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Start with Ready Player One →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Dark in tone, about totalitarianism and gender and society.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

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 Selection?: Juliette / Shatter Me — the closest match to The Selection on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Selection?: The Queen. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Selection.
How big is The Selection?: The Selection is 12 books, 2012–2016.

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