What should I read after The Atlas Six?

If you liked The Atlas Six, try Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead), The Will of the Many (James Islington) and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Suzanne Collins).

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: what it’s like, who it’s for

Name: The Atlas Six
Author: Olivie Blake
ISBN: 9781250854544

Fantasy Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction Young adult

Six young magicians are offered a year inside a secret society guarding knowledge worth killing for, competing for five places.

Feels like curiosity, passion and unease. About ambition, power and friendship.

A page from the book

The arithmetic of outliving an older sister.

Mercifully it was neither. For one thing, if Katherine were still alive, she wouldn’t be sixteen anymore. Libby had aged, somehow, beyond her older sister, and while the math remained impossible to grasp, it was an old wound by now. No longer fatal. More like picking at a scab.

Excerpt from The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake 2020. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

Olivie Blake.Olivie Blake is a pen name for Alexene Farol Follmuth; The Atlas Six was self-published in 2020 before BookTok turned it into a bestseller.

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Richelle Mead, 2007

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The Will of the Many

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Also power and curiosity.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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Also ambition and power.

One of Us Is Lying

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Also curiosity and unease.

Disclosure

Michael Crichton, 1994

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Also curiosity and friendship.

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Questions readers ask

What is The Atlas Six like?: Feels like curiosity, passion and unease. About ambition, power and friendship.
What should I read after The Atlas Six?: If you liked The Atlas Six, try Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead), The Will of the Many (James Islington) and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Suzanne Collins).

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A seventeen-year-old's job description, if the job were killing vampires.
By the way, my name’s Rose Hathaway. I’m seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy.
Vampire Academy · Richelle Mead
Every fair system needs an impartial judge, and every judge is a person.
A fair system only works if there’s an unbiased means of assessing merit. When there is no pride or selfishness involved.” He gives a soft snort, shaking his head. “Which means that fair systems cannot exist where people are involved.
The Will of the Many · James Islington
What a pot of cabbage can make a person promise.
Coriolanus released the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes · Suzanne Collins
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