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Books like Witch & Wizard: 9 series to read next

Witch & Wizard is fantasy and dystopia, about witches, 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.

Witch & Wizard is 5 books, 2009–2014.

“Discovering their abilities inside a system built to hunt them down, the two have to figure out how to survive and fight back across the five-book run.”
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Shade's Children milieu
The Handmaid's Tale
The Declaration
Divergent
Unwind Dystology
Shadow Children
Tripods
A Clockwork Orange
Colossus (D. F. Jones)

Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about survival and coming of age.

Start with Shade's Children →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Science fiction, about gender and society.

“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.”
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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

The DeclarationSeries

seriesGemma Malley4 books2007

Science fiction.

Start with The Declaration →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

Science fiction, about identity, set in big city.

Start with The Transfer →

Unwind DystologySeries

seriesNeal Shusterman5 books2007

Science fiction, about genetic engineering.

“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.”
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Start with Unwind →

Shadow ChildrenSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix7 books1998

Science fiction, about survival.

“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 →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about aliens.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Science fiction, challenging in tone, set in big city.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
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Start with A Clockwork Orange →

Colossus (D. F. Jones)Series

seriesD. F. Jones3 books1966

Science fiction, about artificial intelligence.

“Colossus imagines an American supercomputer built to control the country's nuclear arsenal that gains full autonomy, links up with its Soviet counterpart, and jointly seizes control of both superpowers to enforce peace on its own terms.”
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Start with Colossus →

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 Witch & Wizard?: Shade's Children milieu — the closest match to Witch & Wizard on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Witch & Wizard?: Witch & Wizard. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Witch & Wizard.
How big is Witch & Wizard?: Witch & Wizard is 5 books, 2009–2014.

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