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Books like Underground: 9 series to read next

Underground is set in underground & caves. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Underground is 3 books, 2019–2020.

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Silo
Tripods
Maze Runner
The Triffids
Books of Ember
Patternist
The Hunger Games
Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood
Ship Breaker

SiloUniverse

universe44 books2011

Science fiction, set in underground & caves.

“The world is the Silo: a hundred and forty-four levels of concrete sunk into poisoned earth, and everyone who has ever lived lives in it.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about aliens and 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 →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

“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 →

The TriffidsSeries

seriesJohn Whitbourn, John Wyndham & Simon Clark3 books1951

Set in british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Day of the Triffids →

Books of EmberSeries

seriesJeanne DuPrau4 books2003

“The post-apocalyptic quartet continues with The People of Sparks, following survivors after they reach the world above, and concludes with The Prophet of Yonwood and The Diamond of Darkhold.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City of Ember →

PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

About genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Wild Seed →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution 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 →

Xenogenesis / Lilith's BroodSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler4 books1987

First contact, about aliens and genetic engineering.

“aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26”
from the catalogue description of Dawn
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Dawn →

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

Start with Ship Breaker →

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 Underground?: Silo — the closest match to Underground on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Underground?: Revelations. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Underground.
How big is Underground?: Underground is 3 books, 2019–2020.

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