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Books like Young Jedi Knights: 9 series to read next

Young Jedi Knights is science fiction and space opera, about coming of age, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Young Jedi Knights is 14 books, 1995–1998.

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Imperial Galaxy
Known Space
Humanx Commonwealth
Cytoverse
Unstoppable
Old Man's War
Vatta
Catteni Sequence
Uplift

Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About identity and political intrigue.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue description

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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
from the catalogue description

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CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“Detritus is a dead world buried under the wreckage of a hundred fallen starships, and the humans caverned beneath it live by one hard truth: to survive, you climb into a cockpit and you fight.”
from the catalogue description

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UnstoppableSeries

seriesCharlie Jane Anders4 books2021

About aliens.

Start with Victories Greater Than Death →

Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Old Man's War →

VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Military science fiction.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
from the catalogue description

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Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

About slavery and aliens.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Freedom's Landing →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift and aliens.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue description

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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Young Jedi Knights?: Imperial Galaxy — the closest match to Young Jedi Knights on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Young Jedi Knights?: Heirs of the Force. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Young Jedi Knights.
How big is Young Jedi Knights?: Young Jedi Knights is 14 books, 1995–1998.

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