Series

Books like Wayward Pines: 9 series to read next

Wayward Pines is science fiction and thriller & suspense, about totalitarianism, 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.

Wayward Pines is 6 books, 2012–2018.

The Wayward Pines page →Narrow this list →

The Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451
The Circle (Eggers)
One Second After / John Matherson
Shadow Children
The Hunger Games
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Left Behind
Maze Runner

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society and rebellion and revolution.

“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 →

Fahrenheit 451Series

seriesRay Bradbury2 books1951

About books and reading.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fireman →

The Circle (Eggers)Series

seriesDave Eggers2 books2013

Set in big city.

“Dave Eggers's The Circle follows Mae's rise inside the company as she buys further and further into its ideology, at increasing cost to her own privacy and the people around her.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Circle →

One Second After / John MathersonSeries

seriesWilliam R. Forstchen4 books2009

About war.

Start with One Second After →

Shadow ChildrenSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix7 books1998

“In some cases, a parent may choose to forge a child's identification card so a shadow child can live a normal life.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Among the Hidden →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution, 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

Reading order →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Left BehindUniverse

universe63 books1995

About faith and religion.

“Pilots vanish from their cockpits, drivers from moving cars, children from their beds, clothing left folded where the faithful stood.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

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 →

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 Wayward Pines?: The Handmaid's Tale — the closest match to Wayward Pines on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Wayward Pines?: Genesis. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Wayward Pines.
How big is Wayward Pines?: Wayward Pines is 6 books, 2012–2018.

Books like Wayward Pines: 9 series to read next

Read next in Wayward Pines

Why these

Questions readers ask

Other series like this one