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Books like The Testing Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Testing Trilogy is dystopia and science fiction, about survival, set in near future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Testing Trilogy is 4 books, 2013–2014.

“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.”
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Maze Runner
The Hunger Games
Shade's Children milieu
Shadow Children
Ship Breaker
Chaos Walking
The Declaration
Uglies Universe
The Handmaid's Tale

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Post-apocalyptic.

“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.”
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Start with The Maze Runner →

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.”
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Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Post-apocalyptic.

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Shadow ChildrenSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix7 books1998

Set in north america.

“In some cases, a parent may choose to forge a child's identification card so a shadow child can live a normal life.”
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Start with Among the Hidden →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic, set in north america.

“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.”
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Start with Ship Breaker →

Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Set in other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

The DeclarationSeries

seriesGemma Malley4 books2007

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

Start with The Declaration →

Uglies UniverseSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld & Devin Grayson9 books2005

Science fiction and dystopia, set in near future.

“Tally Youngblood, the original tetralogy's protagonist, initially awaits her own operation before learning it also surgically dulls independent thought, driving her toward the hidden resistance community called the Smoke.”
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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society, set in north america.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Why these

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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after The Testing Trilogy?: Maze Runner — the closest match to The Testing Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Testing Trilogy?: The Testing. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Testing Trilogy.
How big is The Testing Trilogy?: The Testing Trilogy is 4 books, 2013–2014.

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