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  • True Light by Terri Blackstock, Susie Breck

    True Light by Terri Blackstock, Susie Breck

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Now eight months into a global blackout, the residents of Oak Hollow are coping with the deep winter nights. But the struggle to survive can bring out the worst in a person-or a community...
  • Fever by Deon Meyer

    Fever by Deon Meyer

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa--and the world, as far as they know--to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country...
  • The Fighter by Elin Peer, Noelle Bridges

    The Fighter by Elin Peer, Noelle Bridges

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unabridged, 1 audiobook sound file (9 parts), 9 hours 25 minutes_______________I’ve lived half of my life on each side of the border. I know what greatness women are capable of and how amazing men can be. For those Nmen who think I can’t be a police officer because I’m a “fragile female,” I have only one thing to say; watch me! Raven is a force of nature who won’t take no for an answer...
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    dystopia  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  drama  female-mc  fiction
  • Edge of Madness by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Madness by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A devastating EMP. No power. No communication. And no help...On the five-year anniversary of his wife Hannah's disappearance, small-town deputy Noah Sheridan takes his young son Milo to a local ski resort for some much needed father-son time. In a blink, the power grid goes out. So do the resort's brand new generators...
  • Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends by Jerry B. Jenkins

    Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends by Jerry B. Jenkins

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Enter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate them. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles, which have only cast further suspicion upon Christians...
  • The Family Experiment by John Marrs

    The Family Experiment by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual.Some families are virtually perfect…The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived...
  • Days of Panic by Jack Hunt

    Days of Panic by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When the power grid fails, what will you do to survive?After an EMP obliterates the nation's electrical grid on New Year's Eve, it's not long before society unravels and panic ensues. As the lights go out and silence spreads over the city that never sleeps, four ordinary strangers; a bike messenger, a homeless person, a support rep, and an ex-convict must forge a connection in order to stay alive...
  • Blind Sided by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Blind Sided by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After four years of life in a post-apocalyptic world, the one thing that both Mike and Sarah know for sure is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life has begun to settle down, a threat comes at them from a totally unexpected source. Not England, nor the US, not rampaging gypsies or even the Middle East...
  • Rebel by Joanne Macgregor

    Rebel by Joanne Macgregor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can you win a war without losing yourself? Sixteen year-old online gamer Jinxy James has been trained as an expert sniper in the war against a terrorist-spread plague which has decimated the USA. Now she’s a wanted fugitive, on the run with a rebel splinter group, risking everything to save and protect her loved ones...
  • Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One woman. One Great Dane. A whole lot of zombies.Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead...
  • 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...
  • সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    বাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর পরবর্তী ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সমগ্র।*নিঃসঙ্গ গ্রহচারী*ক্রোমিয়াম অরণ্য*ত্রিনিত্রি রাশিমালা*অনুরন গোলক*নয় নয় শূন্য তিন*পৃ*রবোনগরী*টুকি এবং ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক...
  • Rising Sun / Jurassic Park / Sphere by Michael Crichton

    Rising Sun / Jurassic Park / Sphere by Michael Crichton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Here are three of Michael Crichton's research-intensive thrillers in one dandy box. Rising Sun was as timely in 1992 as it now seems ironic. It brilliantly taps the early-'90s American terror of Japan's then apparently invincible high-tech economy with a snappy murder mystery. While celebs rub elbows at the opening party of a Japanese high-rise in L.A...
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    suspense  fiction  sci-fi  mystery  book  adult
  • Remember Yesterday by Pintip Dunn

    Remember Yesterday by Pintip Dunn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel, Forget Tomorrow!Would you change the past to protect your future?Sixteen-year-old Jessa Stone is the most valuable citizen in Eden City. Her psychic abilities could lead to significant scientific discoveries, if only she’d let TechRA study her...
  • Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WASHINGTON D.C. HAS BEEN DESTROYED In the wake of a Kaiju assault that left the nation’s capital in ruins, Jon Hudson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal, is preparing his team for an uncertain future...
  • Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz

    Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until a series of murders reveal the reemergence of the Paratwa...
  • Darwins Cipher by M.A. Rothman

    Darwins Cipher by M.A. Rothman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Juan Gutierrez, a cancer researcher, has spent years studying the genome of animals that exhibit immunity to some types of cancer. Over the course of his study, Juan discovers a pattern that allows him to predict the course of a species' evolution across thousands of generations...
    Categorized as:
    disaster  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  epidemy  espionage  fiction
  • Station Breaker by Andrew Mayne

    Station Breaker by Andrew Mayne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A cutting edge technothriller from the bestselling author of Angel Killer and Public Enemy Zero. Astronaut David Dixon's first mission to space goes horribly wrong when shots are fired on a Russian space station. He finds himself making an emergency landing from orbit and becomes the most wanted man on Earth...
  • The Risen by Erica Stevens

    The Risen by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    *****This book is the final compilation and the conclusion to an ongoing serial story. This series must be read in order.*****With new challenges and threats arising every day, the survivors struggle to reach their destination in the hopes of finding somewhere safe to stay...
  • Feral Fate by Kendall Talbot

    Feral Fate by Kendall Talbot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The nightmare is far from over. After surviving the EMP blast that crippled their cruise ship, the exhausted passengers from Rose of the Sea finally reach dry land. But the deserted island has a sinister history, and one wrong step on its sandy shores can mean the difference between life and death.Gunner...
  • Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dick, AKA Devil Dog's world changes drastically when the EMP takes out the power grid. The loss of electricity brings out the darker side of human nature across the city. A homeless Marine veteran living in the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago, he's far better prepared than most people. Good folk have survived, but they are often outnumbered and outgunned...
  • Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When their scientist parents are assigned to a top secret project on a small, remote island, the five members of the A.I. Gang have to come along, and find themselves trying to stop a spy from destroying the project...
  • Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel

    Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  book  fiction  lgbtq  mystery  young-adult  sci-fi
  • 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...
  • Bloodlines by Chris Wraight

    Bloodlines by Chris Wraight

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The first title in the new "Warhammer Crime" imprint. Try to unravel the secrets lurking in the sprawling city of Varangantua.In the immense city of Varangantua, life is cheap but mistakes are expensive. When Probator Agusto Zidarov of the city’s enforcers is charged with locating the missing scion of a wealthy family, he knows full well that the chances of finding him alive are slight...
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    dystopia  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  cyberpunk  fiction
  • The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

    The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent...
  • Contact by Chris Morphew

    Contact by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For the first six months, Peter's life in Phoenix was pretty normal. Hanging out with his friends, frustrating his parents, sleeping through school. Then he found out the world was ending. The Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate the rest of humanity - and they're going to use "Tabitha" to do it...
  • Pestilence by Victor Methos

    Pestilence by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A race against the clock...The most lethal virus in history has begun its spread to the mainland United States. Fast-spreading and with the ability to take over the host's immune system, the pathogen seems unstoppable.A fight for survival...Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control has encountered the virus before and it nearly cost her her life...
    Categorized as:
    disaster  dystopia  suspense  adult  apocalyptic  book  death  epidemy
  • Genesis by Brendan Reichs

    Genesis by Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Noah Livingston knows he is destined to survive. The sixty-four members of Fire Lake's sophomore class are trapped in a place where morals have no meaning, and zero rules apply. But Noah's deaths have trained him, hardened him, to lead the strongest into the future - whatever that may be - at any cost.Min Wilder knows that survival alone isn't enough...
  • Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King

    Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty...
  • Under the Dome: Part 1 by Stephen King

    Under the Dome: Part 1 by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    On a beautiful fall day, the small town of Chester's Mill; Maine, is sud- denly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invis- ible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts. No one knows what the barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away...
  • Bishop's Honor by A.R. Shaw

    Bishop's Honor by A.R. Shaw

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It's happened once before, and it will happen again. In the year 2030 the Maunder Minimum, a period of solar inactivity, will cause a mini-ice age like it did between the years 1645 and 1710. When it does, Bishop will have to save her not only from the effects of severe weather but also from man himself. Maeve Tilton and her son Ben live alone in the rural town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho...
  • Upgrade by Blake Crouch

    Upgrade by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Logan Ramsay is about to get the brain he always dreamed of. But will he be transformed into something more than human…or something less? The mind-blowing new thriller from the 'New York Times' best-selling author of 'Dark Matter' and 'Recursion'.When the SWAT team gives the all-clear and Logan Ramsay steps into the basement, he has no idea that everything's about to change...
  • Escape to Eden by Rachel McClellan

    Escape to Eden by Rachel McClellan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B085N9KGTQRun now! When seventeen-year-old Sage wakes up in a hospital with no memories, her only clue are the words written on her hand. With a deadly disease threatening to wipe out mankind, Sage must find out who she is and why most people would kill to get their hands on her—before it’s too late...
  • The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings

    The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meadow Woodson has been trained to survive. This is a prequel to The Murder Complex, by Lindsay Cummings, and it is set in a blood-soaked world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate. For fans of Moira Young's Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.Meadow Woodson's father calls it The Fear Trials, and it is a rite of passage in their family...
  • Surviving the Swamp by Grace Hamilton

    Surviving the Swamp by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Skin of Your Teeth Survival is a reality show made famous for pairing part-time survivalists with a real-life survival situation. Led by world-famous Prepper and Survivalist Wolf Henderson, season ten promises to be different: this time none of the contestants are survivalists—they’ve all been picked to fail...
  • Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham

    Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kyle Tait, having survived the harrowing, cross-country journey home to his family, must now struggle for existence in a post-EMP world that no one could have imagined just three short months prior. Each day brings new challenges – how to fight the bitter cold, where to scavenge food for the table, how to best fend off intruders and keep their community safe...
  • Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X...
  • It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones, Gareth Worthington

    It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones, Gareth Worthington

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE WORLD YOU KNOW IS DEAD. WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES.The epidemic struck at the end of the Third World War. Fighting over oil, power, and religion, governments ignored the rise of an anti-bacterial-resistant plague. In just five years, the Earth was annihilated. Only one city survived—Etyom—a frozen hell-hole in northern Siberia, engulfed in endless conflict.The year is 2251...
  • Husk by J. Kent Messum

    Husk by J. Kent Messum

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From award-winning author J. Kent Messum, a serial killer thriller for fans of The Straw Men and The Shining Girls.LIFE GOES ONFor a lucky few, death is merely an inconvenience. With the help of technology the mind can survive long after a body has been laid to rest. This afterlife, however, is far from paradise...MAKING A LIVINGRhodes is a 'Husk'...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  suspense  book  crime  dark  fiction  gothic  horror
  • The Gathering Horde by Rich Baker

    The Gathering Horde by Rich Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The most ambitious terrorist plot ever undertaken is about to be put into motion, releasing an unstoppable force against humanity. Ordinary people - a group of students celebrating the end of the semester, suburban and rural families - are about to find themselves in the center of something that threatens the survival of the human species...
  • Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cutter Dunn is a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist...
  • Waterborne by J. Luke Bennecke

    Waterborne by J. Luke Bennecke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A thought-provoking thriller about a very real threat to the essence of life: water. You'll be forced to consider how you'd react if you were cornered and trapped in a terrifying, life-threatening situation...
  • 20 Minutes To Go Viral by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes To Go Viral by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something is spreading in the peaceful town of Amberfall. Something that threatens the whole of humanity. Something is going viral. 20 Minutes. 20 People. 20 stories that will make you want to stay inside and never greet another human being again. This is a short novella about a viral outbreak in a small town in the Lake District and shows how quickly disease can spread amongst the population...
  • Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

    Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life...
  • Resonance by A.J. Scudiere

    Resonance by A.J. Scudiere

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The shift is coming. Soon. Dr. David Carter knows this. However, he’s a geologist, so ‘soon’ means anywhere from tomorrow to a thousand years from now. People are dying. Now. Drs. Jordan Abellard and Jillian Brookwood are standing at the edge of SuperAIDS. Or are they? They won’t be able to figure it out if they can’t get some authorization signed - and soon...
  • The Andromeda Strain / The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

    The Andromeda Strain / The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Michael Crichton has been called "one of the great storytellers of our age,"* a master at seamlessly blending cutting-edge science and technology with spellbinding adventure...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  fiction  hard-sci-fi  mystery  sci-fi
  • Weight of the Heart by Rosa Montero

    Weight of the Heart by Rosa Montero

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Part human and part robot, private investigator Bruna Husky has been hired to locate a stolen diamond. But as Bruna’s leads start to drop dead, her case becomes about much more than a stolen gem—and much more dangerous. Traversing the galaxy, Bruna races against the clock to uncover a nuclear power conspiracy that threatens all sentient beings...
  • Gingerbread Man by Lee Strauss

    Gingerbread Man by Lee Strauss

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When that cute chick you met online is murdered - but shows up for your next internet meeting anyway.Marlow's just a regular geeky college freshman with little to no experience with girls, so when he has a semi-flirtatious chat with a cute girl online, it's almost more than his nerves can handle.Then the girl is brutally murdered...
  • One Year After by William R. Forstchen

    One Year After by William R. Forstchen

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second After.Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit...
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