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Readers who enjoyed The Damage Done by Michael Landweber, Anna Caputo, Gary Bennett, Senn Annis, Raymond J. Lee, Cary Hite, J.D. Jackson, Dominique Franceschi-Cybulski & Zac Aleman also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

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  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King

    11/22/63 by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force...
  • Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

    Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    Shadows of Self shows Mistborn’s society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts.This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now faces its first instance of terrorism, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict...
  • Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, beasts of pure fury that leave nothing but murder and madness in their wake. Those who do not die are turned, becoming slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. It is a war to end all wars, one that will leave the planet in ruins. I am a monster too. I am one of Alfred Furnace's children...
  • Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The thrilling finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs’ New York Times bestselling VIRALS seriesThe Virals are back—but they’re not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan—grandniece of the famous forensic anthropologist (star of the hit show Bones)—and the rest of the Morris Island gang tracking a pack of rogue Virals who call themselves the Trinity...
  • Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown — the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here — creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself...
  • Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace...
  • Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Furnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking...
  • The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

    The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story.To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette’s syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael has special powers. Electric powers...
  • Defender by Janet Edwards

    Defender by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Becoming a telepath was hard. Being a telepath is harder. Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time her team arrive too late. Someone is already dead. Someone that Amber knows...
  • The Long Walk Home by S.A. Ison

    The Long Walk Home by S.A. Ison

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Which would be worse? Suffering an EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse? Or finding out that you've fallen back into time, five hundred years. Beckett Gray thinks the world has ended because all indications lead him to believe that an EMP has struck, and he is woefully unprepared. His car and cellphone have died near the Appalachian Trail, in the Cumberland Gap National Park...
  • Junkyard by Lindsay Buroker

    Junkyard by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    McCall Richter works as a skip tracer, tracking down criminals, con men, and people who stop making payments on their fancy new spaceships. Her job description says nothing about locating vast quantities of stolen maple syrup, but thanks to her helpful new android employee, she finds herself tramping through a “sugar house” on a frosty moon full of suspicious characters...
    Categorized as:
    crime  action-adventure  adult  animals  book  dogs  female-mc  fiction
  • Fallout by Chris Morphew

    Fallout by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The time for pretending is over. The Shackleton Building has been turned into a concentration camp, and the last free people in Phoenix are forced into hiding. The fight is over unless Jordan and Luke can figure out where the Co-operative is hiding Tobias. And Jordan has to find a way to protect Luke before Peter rages out of control … or else history is doomed to repeat itself...
  • Orlando People by Alexander C. Kane

    Orlando People by Alexander C. Kane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gretch Wolgast is a bit of a dud. Just ask her. She's a 21-year-old college dropout who has a loser job at the mall. Sure, she can lift a tennis ball with her telekinetic powers. But only three feet in the air. And she has to be sitting. Gretch is an OP, one of thousands born in Orlando, Florida, in the early 1980s who mysteriously developed the ability to move things with their minds...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dystopia  fiction  audiobook  mystery  humor  sci-fi  paranormal
  • A Better World by Marcus Sakey

    A Better World by Marcus Sakey

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The brilliants changed everything.Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities...
  • Underground by Chris Morphew

    Underground by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Luke thought he knew who is enemies were. The Shackleton Co-operative. Calvin, the head of security. The whole town of Phoenix. But then Luke wakes up strapped to a metal chair in an underground lab. There are more enemies - and they've been waiting his whole life to track him down. Meanwhile, up on the surface, the people of Phoenix are beginning to disappear...
  • Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping thriller from the Richard and Judy award-winning author of Girl, Missing, Sophie McKenzie. When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to the lonely Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare her unfavourably to her long-dead sister...
  • Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...
  • Hurricane by Janet Edwards

    Hurricane by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being a telepath means there is always a new challenge. Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time a simple case leads on to something far bigger...
  • Murder in an Irish Garden by Carlene O'Connor

    Murder in an Irish Garden by Carlene O'Connor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everything’s coming up roses for garda Siobhán and the rest of O’Sullivan family in quaint Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland—until a murder investigation blooms out of a deadly gardening competition...
    Categorized as:
    crime  mystery  cozy  audiobook  fiction  murder  killer  whodunit
  • Flesh and Steel by Guy Haley

    Flesh and Steel by Guy Haley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Warhammer Crime novelMurder in the neutral zone between Imperial and Adeptus Mechanicus territory sets Probator Symeon Noctis on a dangerous investigation.READ IT BECAUSEDiscover tensions between Imperial servants on Varangantua as an extremely odd pair of detectives seek to solve a murder...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dystopia  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cats  conspiracies
  • Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason has the ability to "mind slide", the ability to project his consciousness. He can be anywhere in the world. Watching. Listening. Kelly tries to put that terrible night behind her. Kidnapped when she was a teenager, she still struggles to overcome the trauma. The details of her rescue were always a little sketchy. It was almost as if someone knew exactly where to find her...
    Categorized as:
    crime  book  fiction  horror  killer  mystery  paranormal  supernatural
  • The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They promised purification.They delivered poison.One that hijacks the mind. A plague that will change humanity forever.From the author of The Pain Colony comes the highly anticipated second book in The Colony series.Investigative reporter Nick Slater could have been the best in the business if only he hadn’t gone off the rails chasing a conspiracy theory...
  • The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn

    The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AND SO IT BEGINS... In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea . . . Iran . . . Russia . . . and soon the gates of Hell will open. DEFCON 1--FULL SCALE NUCLEAR WAR Humanity's most terrifying nightmare has become reality...
  • Swipe by Kathy Reichs

    Swipe by Kathy Reichs

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe join forces to investigate a crime at Comic-Con in this exclusive direct-to-digital short story from Kathy Reichs, author of Bones of the Lost and Virals. A valuable Terminator replica disappears from the nerd nirvana of Comic-Con. Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe are on the scene, and join forces to investigate...
  • Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tory's great aunt, Temperance Brennan, visits just in time to investigate a robbery at the Loggerhead Island Research Institute. As a renowned forensic anthropologist, Tempe is obviously qualified to figure out whodunit, but Tory and her Virals pack want to crack the case on their own. Yet the crime is puzzling...
  • Seizure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Seizure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular kids into a crime-solving pack. But now the very place that brought them together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out of funding and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can figure out a way to save it...
  • Magic Bites [Dramatized Adaptation] by Ilona Andrews, Nora Sofyan

    Magic Bites [Dramatized Adaptation] by Ilona Andrews, Nora Sofyan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate Daniels…When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start...
  • Ending ELE by Rebecca Gober, Courtney Nuckels

    Ending ELE by Rebecca Gober, Courtney Nuckels

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Sometimes, I feel as if loving you is the single greatest and scariest thing I’ve ever done.” ~Tony (Ending ELE)The government took her people and now they are looking for her too. Running seems to be all that Willow and her friends do these days. Not only must Willow stay out of the reach of the soldiers who took her friends, but now she finds herself hunted by a more sinister threat...
  • Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi

    Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Welcome to the new world, in which murder is all but a thing of the past. Because when someone kills you, 999 times out of 1,000, you instantly come back to life. In this world, there are dispatchers—licensed killers who step in when you’re at risk of a natural or unintentional death. They kill you—so you can live...
  • The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,” shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution...
  • Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto

    Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, performed by Zachary Quinto.The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called "dispatchers," who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance...
  • IA: Initiate by John Darryl Winston

    IA: Initiate by John Darryl Winston

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has secrets... What if you didn't know your own? One young man with latent supernatural abilities plus one street gang hell-bent on recruiting him equals... IA: Initiate. The most important thing in the world to thirteen-year-old orphan, "Naz" Andersen is keeping his little sister safe from the streets of a Chicago/Detroit-like urban ghetto known as the Exclave...
  • Evolution by Teri Terry

    Evolution by Teri Terry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling showdown brings the Dark Matter trilogy to a satsifying close. Shay is trapped at the Multiverse compound while looking for the real Callie, and an unforgiving Kai is her best chance at outsmarting Alex and saving countless lives.Shay has left Kai once again by following Alex to his Multiverse compound...
  • Avidian by Ashley R. O'Donovan

    Avidian by Ashley R. O'Donovan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I can see the dead. They tell me their secrets. But this time, their secrets might get me killed.My name is Kat Sinclair, and the Volkov family owns me. People like me, born with special abilities, are called Avids. But my gift doesn’t spare me from the demands of Marco Volkov, the ruthless family patriarch who keeps me in line with the ever-present threat of violence...
  • The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Bubble, where orphans are used for spare parts, and transplanting organs is like changing a pair of socks.They harvested Daniel’s body when he was a child, leaving him with cheap cybernetic replacements. Now that he's grown, his body is failing. The gears in his knee grind, his synthetic cornea weeps, and his 3D-printed lungs spasm in winter.Daniel needs the organs he was born with...
  • Sketches by Teyla Branton

    Sketches by Teyla Branton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Someone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth.Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency)...
  • Perfection Unleashed by Jade Kerrion

    Perfection Unleashed by Jade Kerrion

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two men, one face. One man seeks to embrace destiny, the other to escape it. Danyael Sabre spent sixteen years clawing out of the ruins of his childhood and finally has everything he wanted--a career, a home, and a trusted friend. To hold on to them, he keeps his head down and plays by the rules...
  • City of the Dead by S.D. Perry, Timothy Stahl

    City of the Dead by S.D. Perry, Timothy Stahl

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Leon Kennedy, a rookie cop on a new assignment, and Claire Redfield, sister of the still-missing S.T.A.R.S. member Chris, arrive at Raccoon City to discover a necropolis. A botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming the city's population into the living dead. And all of them are hungry...
  • The Last Town by Blake Crouch

    The Last Town by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    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. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed...
  • Opowieści miłosne, śmiertelne i tajemnicze by Edgar Allan Poe

    Opowieści miłosne, śmiertelne i tajemnicze by Edgar Allan Poe

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Oto jedna z najobszerniejszych polskich edycji opowiadań Edgara Allana Poe: trzydzieści siedem utworów w klasycznych przekładach i w unikalnym wyborze, obejmującym teksty niewznawiane od przedwojnia...
    Categorized as:
    crime  horror  classics  fiction  gothic  fantasy  mystery  sci-fi
  • The Tribute by Roman Prokofiev

    The Tribute by Roman Prokofiev

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every survivor dreams of one day making it to the City. Humanity’s last hope, it boasts the best resources and the greatest minds, bringing together the crème de la crème of the surviving civilization. Behind its unassailable walls and impregnable protection dome, the City bustles with life almost indistinguishable from the state-of-the-art culture of the fabled Utopian era...
  • The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross

    The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In 1897 London, a final showdown is about to begin.London's underworld is no place for a young woman, even one who is strong, smart and part-automaton like Mila. But when master criminal Jack Dandy inadvertently breaks her heart, she takes off, determined to find an independent life, one entirely her own. Her search takes her to the spangled shadows of the West End's most dazzling circus...
  • Truth by Robin Wasserman

    Truth by Robin Wasserman

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Some things are too painful to remember--and too deadly to forget.Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.Lost: Everything.J.D. can't run from her past any longer. She knows the truth now: that she's dangerous, a weapon. If she can't learn to control her powers, there's no telling what...or who...she'll destroy next...
  • The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan

    The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You’d have to be mad to steal from the feared International Patent Office. But that’s what Elizabeth Barnabus is about to try. A one-time enemy from the circus has persuaded her to attempt a heist that will be the ultimate conjuring trick.Hidden in the vaults of the Patent Court in London lie secrets that could shake the very pillars of the Gas-Lit Empire...
  • Virals by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Virals by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina...
  • Catalyst by Lydia Kang

    Catalyst by Lydia Kang

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the past year Zel lost her father, the boy she loves, her safety, and any future she might have imagined for herself. Now she, her sister, and the band of genetic outcasts they've come to call their family are forced on the run when their safe house is attacked by men with neural guns...
  • Doctor Who: Summer Falls and Other Stories by James Goss, Justin Richards

    Doctor Who: Summer Falls and Other Stories by James Goss, Justin Richards

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Summer Falls by Amelia Williams In the seaside village of Watchcombe, young Kate is determined to make the most of her last week of summer holiday. But when she discovers a mysterious painting entitled 'The Lord of Winter' in a charity shop, it leads her on an adventure she never could have planned...
  • Blank: Life or Nothing by Richard C. Hale

    Blank: Life or Nothing by Richard C. Hale

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s a violence in me. My name is Lincoln Delabar. I was born without a face. Yes, you heard that right. Smooth, clear skin from my forehead to my chin.I see the world differently, yet it is still a place that holds wonder. At least most of the time. With my uniqueness comes a burden. My mind is powerful. Very powerful. And I have an obligation, a purpose, to see things in my own special way...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Rewind by Carolyn O'Doherty

    Rewind by Carolyn O'Doherty

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Alex is a Spinner—she has the ability to rewind time to review past events. Hated and feared because of their ability to find the truth, the small population of Spinners is restricted to Centers—compounds created to house and protect them...
  • The Longest Day by Terry Toler

    The Longest Day by Terry Toler

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WINNER: 2020 BEST BOOK AWARD FOR RELIGIOUS FICTION SPONSORED BY AMERICAN BOOK FESTWhat would happen if an astronaut from earth, a fallen and sinful man, discovered a planet where Adam and Eve hadn’t eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?Adon was the only perfect planet left in the universe …Until, Adam Lang, an astronaut from Earth arrived and ate from the tree of the knowledge...
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