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Books like The Undertow Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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

The Undertow Trilogy is 3 books, 2015–2017.

“A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island.”
from the catalogue description of Undertow

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The 5th Wave
Tripods
Gone
Ship Breaker
The Hunger Games
The Andromeda Strain
Out of the Dark (David Weber)
Maze Runner
War Against the Chtorr

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about survival and aliens, set in north america and near future.

“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 →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

About rebellion and revolution.

“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 →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in contemporary.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gone →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, tense and dark in tone, 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 →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution and totalitarianism, set in far future.

“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 Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

About plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

Out of the Dark (David Weber)Series

seriesDavid Weber & Chris Kennedy3 books2010

Science fiction and alien invasion, tense in tone, about war and aliens, set in our world and north america.

“Out of the Dark begins when an overwhelming alien armada arrives to subjugate Earth, only for the invasion to run into unexpected resistance from an unlikely source within humanity itself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Out of the Dark →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Dystopia.

“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 →

War Against the ChtorrSeries

seriesDavid Gerrold7 books1983

About ecological collapse.

“The Chtorr series was originally planned as a trilogy, but as the story became more intricate, Gerrold realized that three books would not be enough for him to tell the entire story.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Matter for Men →

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 Undertow Trilogy?: The 5th Wave — the closest match to The Undertow Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Undertow Trilogy?: Undertow. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Undertow Trilogy.
How big is The Undertow Trilogy?: The Undertow Trilogy is 3 books, 2015–2017.

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