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The Last Town
by Blake Crouch
A small town is cut off from the world by a mysterious barricade and its inhabitants must fight to survive.
Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. ... (Goodreads)
Pines
by Blake Crouch
A man's journey to uncover the secrets of a mysterious town, and its inhabitants.
Wayward Pines, Idaho, is quintessential small-town America–or so it seems. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in search of two missing federal agents, yet soon is facing much more than he ... (Goodreads)
Abandon
by Blake Crouch
A woman's search for her missing husband leads her to a mysterious ghost town where time doesn't behave normally.
A gripping thriller from Blake Crouch, internationally bestselling author of the Wayward Pines trilogy. On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote gold-mining town disappeared, ... (Goodreads)
Doctor Sleep
by Stephen King
A man confronts his dark past as he defends a young girl from a supernatural evil.
Following the events of The Shining , after receiving a settlement from the owners of the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance remains psychologically traumatized as his mother Wendy slowly recovers from ... (Wikipedia)
Wool
by Hugh Howey
In a post-apocalyptic world, people live in a giant silo underground, but secrets threaten to unravel their society.
The story of Wool takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. , Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a subterranean city extending one hundred forty-four stories beneath the surface. The series ... (Wikipedia)
The One That Got Away
by Simon Wood
A woman is kidnapped and held captive for years, but manages to escape. She must confront her captor and the trauma she endured.
Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the ... (Goodreads)
The Long Walk
by Richard Bachman
Fourteen boys face a grueling test of endurance and willpower as they compete in a life-or-death march.
One hundred teenage boys join an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk" or just "The Walk". Each contestant, called a "Walker", must maintain a speed of at least four miles per hour; if he ... (Wikipedia)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
A collection of interviews recounting tales of the zombie apocalypse.
It has been nearly twenty years since the start of the apocalyptic worldwide pandemic known as the Zombie War, and about ten years since the war has ended in humanity's victory. The framing device ... (Wikipedia)
Memory Man
by David Baldacci
A detective investigates a suspicious death, unraveling a complex web of secrets and lies.
This "impossible to put down" #1, New York Times, bestseller introduces Amos Decker, a gifted police detective with a perfect memory who must solve a mystery he wishes he could forget: his family's ... (Barnes & Noble)
Wool Omnibus
by Hugh Howey
Uncovering the truth behind a post-apocalyptic world, where society is hidden beneath a giant dome.
The story of Wool takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. , Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a subterranean city extending one hundred forty-four stories beneath the surface. The series ... (Wikipedia)
Revival
by Stephen King
A dark, supernatural tale of a small town's fight against an evil force.
When Charles Jacobs, a new minister, comes to town, young Jamie Morton is excited. Almost everyone in the tiny Maine hamlet comes to love Jacobs, his beautiful wife, and his young son. Things change ... (Wikipedia)
Firefight
by Brandon Sanderson
A young superhero must confront a powerful enemy in a battle to save the world.
Babylon Restored, formerly Manhattan, may give David answers. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic, Regalia, David is sure Babylon Restored will lead him to what he needs to find. And while entering ... (Goodreads)
Broken Monsters
by Lauren Beukes
A detective investigates a series of gruesome murders in Detroit, uncovering a dark and twisted world of art and obsession.
A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one ... (Barnes & Noble)
Infected
by Scott Sigler
A mysterious virus turns people into violent monsters. A group of survivors must fight for their lives and find a cure before it's too late.
The book follows several characters as they deal with an alien invasion on the microscopic level. The narration is primarily through the perspectives of Perry Dawsey, an ex-football player with an ... (Wikipedia)
Departure
by A.G. Riddle
A flight from London to New York disappears mid-air, leaving behind a handful of survivors who must unravel the mystery of their disappearance.
A wild propulsive adventure full of hairpin twists, Departure weaves together power, ambition, fate, memory, and love. The world's past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers. En ... (Goodreads)
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Post-apocalyptic exploration of a world drastically changed after a pandemic.
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse,, Station Eleven, tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of ... (Barnes & Noble)
Brilliance
by Marcus Sakey
A government experiment gone awry, unleashing a new breed of superhuman humans with extraordinary powers.
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go ... (Goodreads)
A Head Full of Ghosts
by Paul Tremblay
A family's descent into darkness when their teenage daughter is suspected to be possessed.
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors ... (Goodreads)
Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
A family's fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, where creatures lurk in the shadows.
Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it ... (Goodreads)
Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson
Epic battle between powerful superheroes and ruthless villains, with a twist.
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With ... (Goodreads)
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
A team of four women venture into a mysterious, surreal landscape in search of answers.
A team of four women cross the border into an uninhabited area known as "Area X", an unspecified coastal location that has been closed to the public for three decades. The group consists of a ... (Wikipedia)
Defending Jacob
by William Landay
A father must defend his son who is accused of murder, unraveling the truth of a complex crime.
Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in Newton , Massachusetts. He is investigating the murder of a 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, who was a classmate of his son Jacob and was found stabbed to ... (Wikipedia)
NOS4A2
by Joe Hill
A supernatural adventure of a young girl trying to save her family and others from an evil immortal.
The book opens in a hospital in 2008. Charles Manx, a convicted child abductor, briefly wakes from a coma to threaten a nurse. Her coworkers don't believe her claim, because he exhibits only limited ... (Wikipedia)
The Gathering Storm
by Robert Jordan
Epic fantasy adventure featuring battles between the forces of good and evil.
The series' storyline has been leading up to the "Last Battle" ( Tarmon Gai'don )—a fight between the forces of Light and Shadow. According to prophecy in the series the primary protagonist Rand ... (Wikipedia)
Revenge of the Witch
by Joseph Delaney
A young boy's fight against a powerful witch, and his quest to save his family and village.
Tom Ward has lived his whole life in the county (loosely based on the English county of Lancashire). Because he is the seventh son of a seventh son and thus has the ability to see ghosts and fight ... (Wikipedia)
Sand
by Hugh Howey
A post-apocalyptic dystopia, where survivors must flee a world of dust and danger.
The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal ... (Goodreads)
The Universe Versus Alex Woods
by Gavin Extence
An unlikely friendship between a young man and an elderly man, sharing an extraordinary experience.
A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex ... (Goodreads)
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
A priest's battle against a powerful demon possessing a young girl.
An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics. After discovering a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an ... (Wikipedia)
The Girl with All the Gifts
by M.R. Carey
A post-apocalyptic world where a young girl holds the key to humanity's survival.
Twenty years ago humanity was infected by a variant of the fungus native to South America called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which led to the Breakdown - the end of civilization as it was before. ... (Wikipedia)
