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Books like The Passage

Loved The Passage by Justin Cronin? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from dystopian, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Dystopian

    A father and son walk through a dead, ash-grey world; stripped-bare, unbearably tender post-apocalyptic fiction.

  2. 2

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · Dystopian

    Three friends at a strange English boarding school slowly learn what they were made for; restrained and heartbreaking.

  3. 3

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood · 1985 · Dystopian

    Women reduced to their fertility in a theocratic America; chillingly plausible and fiercely written.

  4. 4

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury · 1953 · Dystopian

    A fireman whose job is burning books begins to question why; a passionate defence of reading.

  5. 5

    1984

    George Orwell · 1949 · Dystopian

    Total surveillance, rewritten history and a man who dares to think for himself; the defining dystopia.

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    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley · 1932 · Dystopian

    A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.

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    Matched (Matched Trilogy, Book 1)

    Ally Condie · 2010 · Dystopian

    Cassia has always followed the autocratic Society without question. So when Xander's face is displayed on the screen at the Matching ceremony, she knows that they are the perfect mates. However, Ky Ma

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    Mockingjay

    Suzanne Collins · 2010 · Dystopian

    The last book in the Hunger Games Series. This book is filled with excitement and action regarding the ongoing war with the capital.

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    The Hunger Games Trilogy (Hunger Games

    Suzanne Collins · 2010 · Dystopian

    The stunning Hunger Games trilogy is complete! The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy b

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    Allegiant

    Veronica Roth · 2011 · Dystopian

    The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world pas

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