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  • The Unraveling by Hugh Howey

    The Unraveling by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    There is a legend in their past of an uprising, a war they have learned about, but have learned nothing fromNobody knows what went wrong. Nobody talks about what happened. Such are the silo taboos.Now, nearly two hundred years later, the people of the Silo will get a chance to learn more about that distant uprising.They'll get to start one of their own..
  • Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One day, You Huo and his famiIy was puIIed into an exam caIIed the GIobaI University Entrance Examination. Going through exams together with other unfortunate examinees, their Iives are put at stake and they can only Iive by passing each exam...
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    dystopia  drama  dark  romance  sci-fi  lgbtq  fantasy  mystery
  • Wool 3 by Hugh Howey

    Wool 3 by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The silo has appointed a new sheriff. Her name is Juliette, and she comes not from the shadows of deputies, but from the depths of the down deep...
  • Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey

    Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In July of 2011, a short story named WOOL was quietly released into the vast wilds of the Kindle Store. I never marketed this novelette; I failed to mention it on my website. What happened next was remarkable: People started reading it, and reviewing it, and talking about it.There was never any intention to create a series...
  • Unity by Adrienne Lecter

    Unity by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    United we stand, divided we fall Once again reunited, the Lucky Thirteen set out to hunt down their adversaries—only to be met with an entirely new set of unexpected obstacles. As much as Bree is burning to finally get her revenge, it soon becomes obvious that on their own they are no match for the forces opposing them...
  • First Shift: Legacy by Hugh Howey

    First Shift: Legacy by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma...
  • Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Something is rotten in the state of California… The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite right...
  • The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

    The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.'Sometimes you don't even know what you've been craving until the real thing comes along.' New York Times'McDonagh is more than just a very clever theatrical stylist. His tricks and turns have a purpose...
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    dark  drama  dystopia  21st-century  adult  book  classics  comedy
  • A Town Called Discovery by R.R. Haywood, Carl Prekopp

    A Town Called Discovery by R.R. Haywood, Carl Prekopp

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new time-travel thriller from Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Audible best-selling author R. R. Haywood. Creator of the smash-hit time-travel series Extracted and the UK's number one horror series The Undead. A man falls from the sky. He has no memory. He has no sense of self...
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    dark  dystopia  action-adventure  adult  ai  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Twisted Fate by Kate L. Mary

    Twisted Fate by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Set twenty years after the final book in the Broken World series, Twisted Fate catches up with a group of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic zombie world ruled by a twisted and controlling government bent on taking over the human race. Follows Twisted World, Twisted Mind, and Twisted Memories...
  • Twisted Memories by Kate L. Mary

    Twisted Memories by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Twenty years ago Angus James woke to find himself in a sterile room. On the other side of the locked door, doctors worked to manipulate a virus, using him as their ultimate pin cushion. He was supposed to be dead - and there were moments over the next two decades when he wished he was - but despite his torturous existence, he remained a fighter...
  • State of Vengeance by Summer Lane

    State of Vengeance by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vengeance is coming. Monterey Bay, California, has barely survived a brutal attack from the evil invasion forces of Omega, and Cassidy Hart is exhausted. She has lost a friend and gained a new enemy. The militias seem to be weakening, and Omega seems to be getting stronger...
  • State of Destruction by Summer Lane

    State of Destruction by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Lane is surely worth picking up and reading, whoever you may be." - Daniel M. Harrison, #1 Bestselling Author of Butterflies and Editor of MarxRand The destruction of California is at hand. Cassidy Hart and Chris Young have survived a dangerous mission into the heart of Sky City, a secret Omega base hidden deep in the mountains, but their vengeance has come with a price...
  • The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

    The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants...
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    dark  drama  dystopia  20th-century  audiobook  book  classics  fiction
  • CyberSpace by Matthew Mather

    CyberSpace by Matthew Mather

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this long-awaited sequel to the massive bestseller CyberStorm, Mike and his family are caught up in a new disaster as the Kessler Syndrome unfolds and all satellites in orbit are suddenly destroyed."Couldn't put it down...CyberStorm series is not only a great thriller, but a wake up call...
  • Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou

    Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet’s most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages...
  • The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey...Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Amos Burton's was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first.Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate and the upcoming Cibola Burn, Beloved of Broken Things deepens James S. A...
  • Traumaland by Josh Silver

    Traumaland by Josh Silver

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist and family struggle to help him deal with the fall out. The accident has left him emotionally numb, with no memory of the months following the crash. Desperate to feel something again, Eli winds up at an underground club called Traumaland. But this is no ordinary nightclub...
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    dystopia  dark  horror  young-adult  lgbtq  audiobook  mystery  fiction
  • 1984: An Audible Original adaptation by Joe White, George Orwell

    1984: An Audible Original adaptation by Joe White, George Orwell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the age of uniformity.From the age of solitude and doublethink.From the age of Big Brother.From me, Winston Smith.Greetings.It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith...
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    dystopia  dark  drama  audiobook  classics  fiction  sci-fi  horror
  • Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach

    Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Winner of the 2012 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best German science fiction novel, Lord of All Things is also a story about love against all odds.They are just children when they meet for the first time: Charlotte, daughter of the French ambassador, and Hiroshi, a laundress’s son. One day, Hiroshi declares that he has an idea that will change the world...
  • Nightfall by Daniel Barnett

    Nightfall by Daniel Barnett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment...
  • 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...
  • Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic

    Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Held in captivity by an evil group, Heather must find a way to save her sister. She’ll learn the hard way that the group doesn’t let people leave without heavy consequences.After narrowly escaping death, James and Angela find refuge in Krista’s house. They think they’re safe for the night. They’re dead wrong, and they realize it too late when they hear scratching inside the closet...
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    dystopia  drama  dark  horror  zombies  apocalyptic  sci-fi  epidemy
  • Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers

    Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In this gripping sequel to THIS IS NOT A TEST, Rhys and Sloane are headed for a safe haven when they get separated along the way. Rhys is determined to reunite with Sloane until he discovers people who might need him more--people who offer him the closest he'll get to everything he's lost, if they can just hold on long enough...
  • Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman

    Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's debut novella, Nothing but the Rain .The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There’s not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you’ll lose everything you used to be...
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    dystopia  dark  horror  sci-fi  fiction  fantasy  mystery  audiobook
  • Severance - The Lexington Letter by Anonymous

    Severance - The Lexington Letter by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When does the cost of staying silent become greater than the price of speaking up? A desperate woman risks everything to expose the sinister company at the heart of Severance, the thrilling Apple Original series from director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson, now streaming on Apple TV+, about a daring experiment in "work-life balance...
  • 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'...
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    dark  dystopia  book  crime  fiction  gothic  horror  male-author
  • Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp

    Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's time for blueblood Bernard Johnson to leave his boring life behind and go on The Vacation, a yearlong corporate-sponsored odyssey. But instead of seeing the world, Bernard is captured by terrorists, becomes a key figure in secret drug wars, and, worse, doesn't once miss his secure American Dream...
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    dark  dystopia  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror  humor
  • Quitters, Inc by Stephen King, Eric Roberts

    Quitters, Inc by Stephen King, Eric Roberts

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Dick Morrison's life has become a nightmare of addictions, filling his days with overeating, overworking, and smoking way too much. When an old friend tells him about a surefire way to quit, he's more than willing to give it a shot. But what Dick doesn?t know is that Quitters, Inc...
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    dark  drama  horror  fiction  audiobook  fantasy  20th-century  sci-fi
  • Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

    Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting."From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun...
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    dystopia  dark  drama  horror  audiobook  fantasy  vampires  fiction
  • The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand by Caroline Kepnes, Wrath James White

    The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand by Caroline Kepnes, Wrath James White

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television...
  • Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities...
  • Floor 21 by Jason Luthor

    Floor 21 by Jason Luthor

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As humanity lives out the remainder of its existence at the top of an isolated apartment tower, young Jackie dares to question Tower Authority and their ban on traveling into the tower's depths. Intelligent and unyielding, Jackie ventures into the shadows of the floors below...
  • A Witch's Sin by Daniel B. Greene

    A Witch's Sin by Daniel B. Greene

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What would you do to keep your dreams ad-free?Bruised, stoned, and still adjusting to her latest wear implants, apprentice enforcer Taya Mint plunges into the darkest depths of Megastructure Seven Zero Three, challenging everything she thought she knew about life within the walls she has never stepped beyond...
  • Grim Repast by Marc Collins

    Grim Repast by Marc Collins

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Quillon Drask NovelTormented by his past, Probator Quillon Drask’s reputation as the go-to detective for strange crimes has led him to the Polaris district of Varangantua. Warring families, corrupt officials, and a monstrous hunger stalk these streets, and Drask must overcome his own inner agonies to bring justice to the tormented city...
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    dystopia  dark  sci-fi  crime  fiction  audiobook  mystery  grim-dark
  • UnStrung by Neal Shusterman, Michelle Knowlden

    UnStrung by Neal Shusterman, Michelle Knowlden

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How did Lev Calder move from an unwillingly escaped Tithe to a clapper?In this new ebook original short story, author Neal Shusterman opens a window on Lev's adventures between the time he left CyFi and when he showed up at the Graveyard.Lev's experiences on a Hi-Rez, an extraordinarily wealthy Native American Reservation introduce him to a teen with remarkable musical talent..
  • Bane by Amelia C. Gormley

    Bane by Amelia C. Gormley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The weapon that nearly destroyed humanity may be their only salvation.Rhys Cooper once thought he was a dead man. Instead, he's proven immune to the virus that nearly wiped out humanity.Now the Clean Zone's scientists want to know why...
  • Don't Worry, Darling by Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke

    Don't Worry, Darling by Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't Worry, Darling is a psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath. This screenplay featured in the 2019 Black List, and is now in development with Olivia Wilde attached as director. Wilde will also appear in the film alongside Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson...
  • Meat by Joseph D'Lacey

    Meat by Joseph D'Lacey

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Abyrne is a decaying town, trapped by an advancing wilderness. Its people depend on meat for their survival, meat supplied by the processing plant on the edge of town.Meat is sanctified in Abyrne, a precious commodity eaten with devout solemnity by everyone except for a handful of people who won't, who suspect that the town is evil, rotten to its core...
  • What January Remembers by Faith Gardner

    What January Remembers by Faith Gardner

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dysfunctional family holiday, a possible murder, and a partridge in a pear tree.The Jaggers were once a tight-knit family. But after their mother’s tragic death years ago, the four children and their father have drifted further apart. The children grew up, moved away, and now have lives of their own...
  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde & the Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde & the Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dr Jekyll faces awful consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the disgustingly evil Mr Hyde...
  • The Memory Agent by Matthew B.J. Delaney

    The Memory Agent by Matthew B.J. Delaney

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Crime never changes. Punishment does.In a time when prisons no longer contain inmates behind concrete and steel, the convicted serve their time while asleep, rehabilitating in virtual reality while blissfully unaware of their crimes.Roger Parker is a professional prison breaker, skilled at navigating these strange penal dream worlds and extracting those imprisoned there—for a price...
  • As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
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    dark  drama  dystopia  book  fiction  futuristic  horror  mystery
  • Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Obelisk edition of Diary of the War of the Pig marks the first time in paperback for this fictional chronicle about street terror and disappearances by the greatest living Argentine author...
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    drama  dystopia  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Fox Run by David Robbins

    The Fox Run by David Robbins

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the descendants of the few survivors of the nuclear holocaust that leveled the earth struggle to rebuild a vanished civilization within the walls of The Home, savage barbarian trolls plot to plunder, ravage, and destroy their nascent world. Reissue...
  • The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

    The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The TestBritain, the not-too-distant future.Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.He wants his family to belong.Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death...
  • Pandemic by Yvonne Ventresca

    Pandemic by Yvonne Ventresca

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna's circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn't about to get any better...
  • Infected by James Schannep

    Infected by James Schannep

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    3 Unique Storylines. Over 50 Possible Endings. Just one question... Will YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?Here’s how it works: You, Dear Reader, are the main character of this story. Live, die, and rise again based solely on the merit of your own choices. Each link represents a choice, and there’s no going back, so choose wisely...
  • The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker

    The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Perfect for fans of The Martian, this powerful post-apocalyptic thriller pits reluctant father Edgar Hill in a race against time to get back to his wife and children. When the sky begins to fall and he finds himself alone, his best hope is to run – or risk losing what he loves forever.When the world ends and you find yourself forsaken, every second counts. No one knows this more than Edgar Hill...
  • Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

    Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely on the orbit. Radio is mute on all the frequencies. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city...
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