Books like 'This Shattered World'

Readers who enjoyed This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

futuristic  science fiction  young adult  aliens  dystopian  military  magic  from hate to love  forbidden love  mystery 

  • Win by Vera Nazarian

    Win by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Games are Forever! It’s one thing to Qualify and Compete… Now she must Win. Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, is among the lucky ones. She’s one of several million teenage refugees to escape the extinction-level asteroid barreling towards Earth and reach the ancient colony planet of Atlantis...
  • Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid

    Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    S. J. Kincaid has created a fascinating dystopian world for Insignia, her futuristic science-fiction adventure series perfect for fans of Ender's Game. Earth is in the middle of WWIII, battling to determine which governments and corporations will control the resources of the solar system.Teen Tom Raines grew up with nothing, some days without even a roof over his head...
  • Sponsored links
  • Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The electrifying conclusion to the Starstruck series! M, no longer a nerdy nobody, has finally been acclaimed Sovereign Emileia, ruler of the Martian colony Nuath. But at what cost? Without her soulmate Rigel, life seems pointless but she's expected to shake off her heartbreak and assume her responsibilities...
  • Lost Stars (Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens) by Claudia Gray

    Lost Stars (Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens) by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 28 ratings
    The reign of the Galactic Empire has reached the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan, where aristocratic Thane Kyrell and rural villager Ciena Ree bond over their love of flying. Enrolling at the Imperial Academy together to become fighter pilots for the glorious Empire is nothing less than a dream come true for the both of them...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 47 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world.As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people...
  • Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Year 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills...
  • The Reckoning by S.L. Morgan

    The Reckoning by S.L. Morgan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 1 of the MULTI-AWARD and BEST SELLING new series that is captivating readers from around the world! “Storm?” Reece eyed every man in the room with a lethal expression, “I am the storm!” –Reece Oxley A menacing, dark force looms in the background, and he will stop at nothing until he possesses the one thing that will give him ultimate power: The Stone The greatest threat the...
  • Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's time to risk it all! The thrilling conclusion to Janet Edward’s sensational debut YA sci-fi trilogy. Jarra never wanted to be a celebrity. All she ever wanted was to gain some respect for the people left on Earth: the unlucky few whose immune system prevents them from portalling to other planets...
  • Rebel Wing by Tracy Banghart

    Rebel Wing by Tracy Banghart

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00LXCMU8O The Dominion of Atalanta is at war. But for eighteen-year-old Aris, the fighting is nothing more than a distant nightmare, something she watches on news vids from the safety of her idyllic seaside town. Then her boyfriend, Calix, is drafted into the Military, and the nightmare becomes a dangerous reality...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
  • Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, best-selling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival.Is this the end? What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course. Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast...
  • Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one...
  • Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when the one thing you’ve been praying for turns out to be the one thing that will destroy you and everything you love? After two years of living and adjusting to life after the bomb, Sarah and her son, John, have discovered that happiness can trump grief and loss...
  • Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart

    Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the action-packed sequel to Rebel Wing, Aris battles for life and love . . . and not everyone will survive. Aris Haan gave up everything to join the Atalantan Military: her family, her boyfriend, even her identity. In the end, though, it didn’t matter that she was a war hero. When the all-male Military discovered that she was actually a woman, she was sent home and erased from history...
  • The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey

    The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Special 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey. A beloved classic of romantic space adventure returns. A novel of Anne McCaffrey’s Brainship series. A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness...
  • Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder

    Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Terra Cotta Warriors have been discovered on other planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. And Lyra Daniels' parents are the archaeological Experts (yes with a capital E) on the Warriors and have dragged her to the various planets to study them despite the time dilation causing havoc with her social life...
  • Push by Eve Silver

    Push by Eve Silver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s either break the rules or die. Miki Jones lives her life by her own strict set of rules, to keep control, to keep the gray fog of grief at bay. Then she’s pulled into the Game, where she—and her team—will die unless she follows a new set of rules: those set by the mysterious Committee. But rules don’t mean answers, and without answers, it’s hard to trust. People are dying...
  • Destiny Rising by Siobhan Davis

    Destiny Rising by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    EVERY CHOICE HAS A CONSEQUENCEThe final book in the captivating True Calling series.Once again, the world is on the brink of momentous change. As revolutionary organization Saoirse prepares to battle the government for control of Earth and Novo, Ariana and those she loves must join humanity’s fight for justice and freedom...
  • Defy the Worlds by Claudia Gray

    Defy the Worlds by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    This is the thrilling and romantic sequel to Defy the Stars from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline.An outcast from her home -- Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. And when a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi gets her chance...
  • Alienated by Melissa Landers

    Alienated by Melissa Landers

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them. Handpicked to host the first-ever L’eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she’ll have inside information about the mysterious L’eihrs that every journalist would kill for...
  • The Hunt by Stacey Kade

    The Hunt by Stacey Kade

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her. While on the run, Zane Bradshaw is the only person she can trust. He knows who-and what-she is and still wants to be part of her life. But accepting Zane's help means putting him in danger. Dr. Jacobs, head of GTX, is not the only one hunting for Ariane...
  • Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of the Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic . . .The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch .
  • Earth Star by Janet Edwards

    Earth Star by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sequel to Earth Girl . 18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honours for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets...
  • Traitor's Mandate by Kelly St. Clare

    Traitor's Mandate by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The dreams I once had as a soldier fade to nothing, insignificant as the last battle for Earth looms darker each day.Whatever makes my mind unique could provide our rebellion with an army large enough to crush the Mandate and the other group circling in for the kill.If I can hold on.Because I’m dangerous—a bomb that could detonate and kill my friends and the man I love at any moment...
  • Hover by Melissa West

    Hover by Melissa West

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because Zeus will do anything to save the Ancients from their dying planet, and he has a plan. Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them...
  • Invaded by Melissa Landers

    Invaded by Melissa Landers

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The romantic sequel to Alienated takes long-distance relationships to a new level as Cara and Aelyx long for each other from opposite ends of the universe...until a threat to both their worlds reunites them. Cara always knew life on planet L’eihr would be an adjustment...
  • Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for...
  • Missing Pieces by Meredith Tate

    Missing Pieces by Meredith Tate

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Your family is the most important part of your life. Your families are the people you love, and love is what separates us from scoundrels and criminals. It maintains order. Your parents, your sibling, and your Partner, are the ones you love. There should never, ever, be anyone else who comes close to that bond. You have only one best friend, and that is the person you’ll be marrying someday...
  • Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan

    Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everyone in the universe knows his name. Everyone in the universe fears him. But no one realizes that notorious outlaw Ia Cōcha is a seventeen-year-old girl.A criminal mastermind and unrivaled pilot, Ia has spent her life terrorizing the Olympus Commonwealth, the imperialist nation that destroyed her home...
  • Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

    Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold...
  • Midnight City by J. Barton Mitchell

    Midnight City by J. Barton Mitchell

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell's alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens’ mysterious plan Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly...
  • A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 47 ratings
    Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It’s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed . But there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision—no more Phydus, no more lies...
  • The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer

    The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    It is time. The boy must leave his family to serve in the Queen's army. To be chosen is an honor. To decline is impossible. The boy is modified. He is trained for several years, and learns to fight to the death. He proves to the Queen—and to himself—that he is capable of evil. He is just the kind of soldier the Queen wants: the alpha of his pack. http://www.wattpad...
  • Legend: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu

    Legend: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a military prodigy. Born into the slums of the Republic’s Lake Sector, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives are not as sinister as they often seem. One day June’s brother is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect...
  • The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford

    The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Since childhood, scientist Talia Zaryn has been haunted by recurring dreams, visions of an alien attack on her planet Sendek. Each time it ends abruptly with Talia’s death in the capital city Joharadin, a city that she has spent her life desperately avoiding. Talia keeps these dreams a secret, hoping they are nothing more than childish nightmares...
  • Rush by Eve Silver

    Rush by Eve Silver

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    So what’s the game now? This, or the life I used to know? When Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game — her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures. There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out...
  • A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

    A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It should have been a short suspended-animation sleep. But this time Rose wakes up to find her past is long gone-- and her future full of peril. Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss...
  • Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Me? A leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion—between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free...
  • The Final Six by Alexandra Monir

    The Final Six by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science genius from California, are two of the twenty-four teens drafted into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever altered. After erratic climate change has made Earth a dangerous place to live, the fate of the population rests on the shoulders of the final six who will be scouting a new planet...
  • In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    They hear the most silent of footsteps. They are faster than anything you've ever seen. And They won't stop chasing you...until you are dead. Amy is watching TV when it happens, when the world is attacked by Them. These vile creatures are rapidly devouring mankind. Most of the population is overtaken, but Amy manages to escape—and even rescue “Baby,” a toddler left behind in the chaos...
  • Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis

    Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it’s hard to escape it. So when a group of men shows up at her house uninvited, she assumes it’s just the usual media-grubs. That is, until shots are fired...
  • The Taking by Kimberly Derting

    The Taking by Kimberly Derting

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different...
  • The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As Naomi lifts off into space and away from a rapidly deteriorating Earth, she watches the world fade away, and along with it Leo, a Final Six contestant she grew close to during training. Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what’s ahead, on Europa, could be worse...
  • The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

    The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 78 ratings
    After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see...
  • As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Taking place on the spaceship Godspeed before Amy Martin wakes up and Elder takes leadership, this novella describes life at the Hospital during Eldest's reign. Focusing primarily on background characters, readers will see fan-favorite characters Harley, Orion, Victria, and more. Selene is a singer on a spaceship that only values people who can provide important skills that enhance survival...
  • Gravity by Melissa West

    Gravity by Melissa West

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    In the future, only one rule will matter: Don’t. Ever. Peek. Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die...
  • Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station—only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures.Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything...
  • Athena's Ashes by Jamie Grey

    Athena's Ashes by Jamie Grey

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s Renna’s biggest job yet – convincing MYTH leadership that she’s put away her lock picks and is ready to save the galaxy, despite the dangerous implant in her brain. But with the Athena on the run, she’s working solo and facing her most ruthless enemy, the traitor Pallas, who’ll go to any lengths to destroy the MYTH organization...
  • This Night So Dark by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    This Night So Dark by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Don’t miss the breathtaking short story that connects the first two novels in the Starbound trilogy, These Broken Stars and This Shattered World. Tarver still has nightmares about the night, six months before the Icarus crash, when he rescued a group of civilian researchers being held hostage by brutal mercenaries...
  • A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix

    A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    I have died three times, and three times been reborn, though I am not yet twenty in the old earth years by which it is still the fashion to measure time. This is the story of my three deaths, and my life between. My name is Khemri...
Fantastic book recommendations by romance book lovers for romance book lovers.
Find out more about romance.io.


Get recommendations by genres & tropes

Use the romance book finder to mix and match over 100 content keywords to find the books that match your preferences

romance book finder

Looking for more inspiration? Enter another book title to get more suggestions on what to read next.


Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.