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Books like The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy is dark and tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy is 3 books, 2014–2016.

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The Hunger Games
Red Queen
Chaos Walking
Crewel World
The Testing Trilogy
The Courier's Daughter Trilogy
Ship Breaker
Shade's Children milieu
The Declaration

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About survival 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.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

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 →

Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Set in other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

Crewel WorldSeries

seriesGennifer Albin7 books2012

About identity.

Start with The Department of Alterations →

The Testing TrilogySeries

seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013

About survival, 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 →

The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries

seriesC. J. Redwine3 books2012

About survival and forbidden love.

“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 →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic, about survival, 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 →

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in near future.

Start with Shade's Children →

The DeclarationSeries

seriesGemma Malley4 books2007

Set in our world and near future.

Start with The Declaration →

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 Silver Blackthorn Trilogy?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy?: Reckoning. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy.
How big is The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy?: The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy is 3 books, 2014–2016.

Books like The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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