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Books like The Thaw Chronicles: 9 series to read next

The Thaw Chronicles is science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about survival, 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 Thaw Chronicles is 14 books across 5 series, 2019–2021.

“The ice went, and the water came, and the world as it was went under with it.”
from the catalogue description

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Shade's Children milieu
Maze Runner
The Hunger Games
The 5th Wave
Divergent
Unwind Dystology
Ship Breaker
Tripods
Red Queen

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in near future.

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Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about survival, 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
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Start with The Maze Runner →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About totalitarianism, 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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The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion, about aliens, set in north america.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The 5th Wave →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

Set in north america and big city.

Start with The Transfer →

Unwind DystologySeries

seriesNeal Shusterman5 books2007

Set in north america.

“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Unwind →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

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.”
from the catalogue description

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TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about aliens.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Fantasy, about class conflict.

“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 →

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.

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What should I read after The Thaw Chronicles?: Shade's Children milieu — the closest match to The Thaw Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is The Thaw Chronicles?: The Thaw Chronicles is 14 books across 5 series, 2019–2021.

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