If the adrenaline of Spensa diving through battles and outwitting the Superiority lit you up, you’ll feel right at home with Holden and his crew in Leviathan Wakes. You get tense dogfights, desperate chase sequences, and a conspiracy that spirals from a single ship to system-shaking consequences—much like Spensa’s journey from the Nowhere back to threats that could unmake humanity.

If M-Bot’s sarcastic one-liners and unexpectedly tender growth were your favorite parts—like the way it negotiates fear, autonomy, and friendship with Spensa—then All Systems Red will hit the same sweet spot. Murderbot is hilariously done with humans yet can’t help saving them, juggling quips with crisis-management the way M-Bot does mid–delver runs.

If you loved how cytonics in Cytonic felt learnable and exploitable—Spensa mastering coordinates in the Nowhere, negotiating with delvers, and pushing the boundaries of what her abilities can do—then Foundryside offers the same thrill. Sancia learns to ‘program’ reality via scrived commands, pulling off audacious stunts by understanding and outsmarting the system’s limits, much like Spensa’s breakthroughs.

If Spensa’s ventures into the Nowhere—its fragments, logic-bending geography, and the way it tests who she is—hooked you, Every Heart a Doorway offers a beautifully eerie echo. Teens who’ve crossed into other realms grapple with the pull of those worlds and the cost of coming back, mirroring Spensa’s portal crossings and the identity challenges they spark.

If Spensa’s search for who she is—pilot, cytonic, friend—resonated with you, especially as she confronts the Nowhere’s truths and M-Bot’s evolving selfhood, The Space Between Worlds will land. Cara traverses parallel Earths and has to face the versions of herself she might have been, turning survival into self-discovery with the same intensity and heart.