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  • Morning Star by Pierce Brown

    Morning Star by Pierce Brown

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star.Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war...
  • Golden Son by Pierce Brown

    Golden Son by Pierce Brown

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution...
  • Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass...
  • Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

    Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing.Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her...
  • Tane by Anna Hackett

    Tane by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens reaches its endgame, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…Tane Rahia is good at one thing—fighting. Before the alien invasion, he fought as a mercenary in the worst jungle hellholes...
  • Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Leave no man behind. On Detron, a simmering protest boils over and turns deadly when militants hiding among the demonstrators deliberately shoot down a group of legionnaires, executing one survivor and taking two for ransom. The only Republic asset the captured leejes can rely on is a lone marine sniper who defies orders in a desperate attempt to save them...
  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown

    Red Rising by Pierce Brown

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    "I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.""I live for you," I say sadly.Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more."Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future...
  • Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

    Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life. A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society...
  • The Girl Who Dared to Rise by Bella Forrest

    The Girl Who Dared to Rise by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The stakes grow ever higher for Liana Castell... and she must rise to meet them. Return to the Tower in the gripping fourth book of The Girl Who Dared series, where Liana will face her greatest challenge yet: Become Ambrose's replacement, or die trying...
  • Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

    Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the starship Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. He’s got a long way to go before he can rest. How can he when the entire world is under siege?   By demonic aliens. By a brutal thug who calls himself King. By an unknown and powerful threat that may be responsible for the end of humankind. The road may be long. The odds may be bad...
  • Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    THE KENNEDY STARES INTO THE ABYSSThe world's last floating nuclear supercarrier looks into the face of oblivion – as her thinned, exhausted, and beleaguered crew face the largest herd of dead ever recorded. Soon, the ship's five-acre flight deck will become the scene of a furious and desperate set-piece battle – like no combat any modern army has seen since Stalingrad...
  • Nomad Unleashed: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Nomad Unleashed: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    They say behind every great man, is a great woman. But what if the woman is a Werewolf? The heat is unrelenting. The Wastelands are coming for New Boulder. Nature’s a total bitch. And then there’s Werewolf heat. Terry Henry Walton has to come to grips with the reality of his situation. Civilization cannot return to humanity without help. More help than even an enhanced human can give...
  • Nomad's Fury: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Nomad's Fury: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    They say that behind every great man is a great woman...But what if that woman is a Werewolf? "Serenity and Clint Eastwood fans saddle up! This is a straight shooting futuristic story that celebrates honor and survival with a little paranormal on the side." Settled into their new home of North Chicago, Terry and Char find more enemies than they suspected...
  • Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the second book of the In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carré...
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    dystopia  military  war  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  fiction
  • Homeworld by Evan Currie

    Homeworld by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War comes home to the Sol system when the Drasin track a human ship back to Earth, with devastating consequences. Facing massive force of invading alien ships wielding terrible power, the crew of the NAC spacecraft, their allies, and the people of Earth must mount a desperate effort to stop them...
  • Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Betrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team...
  • A Pillar of Fire by Night by Tom Kratman

    A Pillar of Fire by Night by Tom Kratman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book #7 in the popular Carrera military science fiction series.Carrera's held off his enemies coming by sea from the north, in the process dealing the naval and amphibious forces of the Zhong Empire a stinging defeat.  The Zhong won't soon forget the blood-stained waters and the heaped up bodies on the shores of Balboa's Isla Real...
  • The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    THE OPERATORS FACE THEIR DEMONSMission complete, Alpha team enjoys their first chance to breathe and tend to their humanity. But the darkness leaves them alone with their demons - and those who have found love may yet learn that it is fatally incompatible with duty...THE CARRIER FACES UNIMAGINED THREATSThe JFK steams for Africa, despite rumours of lone Zulus still wandering below decks...
  • Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity’s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it...
  • Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After being saved from annihilation by the Old Gator’s daring plan, Gabriel and the crew of the Magellan find themselves in the most unlikely of places: a captured enemy starship. While learning to control the alien vessel introduces a new set of challenges, the secrets they discover within may prove to be the edge they so desperately need...
  • Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the year 2280, an alien fleet stole our Earth. For fifty years they hunted us. For fifty years they enslaved us. For fifty years we lived in fear. Nothing lasts forever. They can try to quell us. They can try to break us. They can chase us to the ends of the Earth. They can chase us to the ends of the Universe. We’ve won our first battle. We’ve earned our first taste of hope...
  • Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two hundred years ago, aliens invaded Earth. A violent war followed. The enemy won. Some of us escaped... ...most of us didn’t. On Proxima they flourished - the invasion forgotten. On Earth we floundered - the horror began. Their world is advanced, peaceful, and secure. Our world is broken, savage, and overrun. A new invasion is coming. A hunger that has swallowed half the universe...
  • Cyborg Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Cyborg Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Warlord Anghar survives hell as a captive of the evil Hive. Convinced he will never break free, he chooses death over dishonor. When the Coalition ReCon Team sent to kill him frees him instead, he begins the long, tortuous journey back to a true Atlan, a warrior proud of his beast, of his service...
  • Tomorrow Girls #4: Set Me Free by Eva Gray

    Tomorrow Girls #4: Set Me Free by Eva Gray

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In a terrifying future world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive.Maddie is ready for action. Louisa, Evelyn, and Rosie helped rescue her from the Alliance's grasp, and she's learned an enormous, game-changing secret: her mother is the leader of the Resistance!But reuniting with her long-absent mother is not going to be easy...
  • Forsaken by M.R. Forbes

    Forsaken by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the starship Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him.He expects to die any second.He's already been attacked by demonic aliens, rogue soldiers, and even the people he thought were his friends.He's survived.Barely.Outcast. Forsaken. He's entered a strange new world. A world he knows nothing about. A world he's never stepped foot on before...
  • Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, brings you the gripping, sensual conclusion to her apocalyptic trilogy.Amber Tate never dreamed their heart-wrenching escape from the enemy’s attack would lead them to the most beautiful place she’s ever seen, marred by one ugly fact; it’s under enemy control...
  • With the Enemy by Eva Gray

    With the Enemy by Eva Gray

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In a terrifying new world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive. Evelyn has always suspected that things are more sinister and more complicated than they seem. Now that Maddie has been kidnapped, Rosie, Louisa, and the boys are paying more attention to Evelyn's theories. As the group makes their way toward war-torn Chicago, they're under constant threat of capture...
  • Run For Cover by Eva Gray

    Run For Cover by Eva Gray

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Now that best friends Louisa, Rosie, Evelyn, and Maddie know the truth--or at least the danger they're in--the girls have run away from their "safe" country retreat. But life is riskier than ever, and Rosie still doesn't know who she can trust. Original...
  • First and Only by Dan Abnett

    First and Only by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the Chaos-infested Sabbat system, Imperial Commissar Gaunt must lead his men through as much in-fighting amongst rival regiments as against the forces of Chaos. For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule...
  • Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Following Confederation, Final Battle is the last book in the saga of Reza Gard. Reza is caught up in a daring plot to assassinate the Confederation President, even as something goes terribly wrong in the Empire and its warriors lose their will to fight. Reunited with Tesh-Dar, Reza and his friends fight to save the woman he loves, with the fate of the Empire and Humanity hanging in the balance...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  military  war  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  fiction
  • Deep Shadows by Bella Forrest

    Deep Shadows by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The heart-pounding second book of The Child Thief series. After the night's shocking events, Robin, Jace, and their team find themselves thrust into a race for their lives.Robin never could have imagined that things would go so wrong. Never could have dreamed that they would find what they found within that innocuous-looking building...
  • The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden

    The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Since their home was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her friends have been fighting for their lives. Now a resolution may finally be in sight. But as enemy forces close in on her hideout, Ellie discovers that the final conflict just may be the most dangerous yet. And not everyone will survive...
  • Independents by Michele Notaro

    Independents by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I’ve wanted to do is keep my family safe. All I’ve wanted was to protect them from the evils of the world… but I’ve failed. I’ve failed so badly, and now all of them are suffering… I’m suffering… We’ve lost so many, and now that we’ve lost one of our own, I don’t know how to keep going. I don’t know how to protect them anymore...
  • Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth

    Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She survived. That's not good enough.When Ebola struck Manhattan, Ava Panic was a bright high school sophomore. Two years later, Ava's still kicking. Also hitting, biting, and gouging eyes.Nine out of ten didn't make it. Half the survivors are feral teens like Ava. During the Starve, their gangs terrorized the city...
  • Endless Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Endless Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Betrayal and desperation are a dangerous combination in this thrilling continuation of the Surviving Ashes series by USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne... Berke Daniels has learned to live as if there is no tomorrow, because he knows firsthand it can all be taken away in a moment...
  • Ender's Game Alive: The Full-Cast Audioplay by Orson Scott Card

    Ender's Game Alive: The Full-Cast Audioplay by Orson Scott Card

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dramatization written by Orson Scott Card, based on his bestselling novel and the upcoming theatrical film release. 70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion...
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    war  dystopia  sci-fi  audiobook  young-adult  fiction  aliens  poc-mc
  • A Killing Frost by John Marsden

    A Killing Frost by John Marsden

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Life in the war zone enters its sixth month of heart-stopping tension in the latest installment of the internationally bestselling Tomorrow series.In the third installment of the Tomorrow saga, the anything-to-survive existence of Ellie and her friends has sharpened their senses and emboldened their plans. They aren't merely on the defensive anymore; they're also striking back...
  • Traitor's Mandate by Kelly St. Clare

    Traitor's Mandate by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The dreams I once had as a soldier fade to nothing, insignificant as the last battle for Earth looms darker each day.Whatever makes my mind unique could provide our rebellion with an army large enough to crush the Mandate and the other group circling in for the kill.If I can hold on.Because I’m dangerous—a bomb that could detonate and kill my friends and the man I love at any moment...
  • Nameless by T.C. Edge

    Nameless by T.C. Edge

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Waking on the edge of the lake, out beyond the perimeter wall, Brie has to think fast. She’s lost, alone, and surrounded by toxic mist. And soon enough, she’ll have other threats to contend with too. Needing to get back to the city fast, she sets her sights on the High Tower, the beacon that calls her home. And eventually, it’s right to the summit that she needs to go...
  • Rebel's Crusade by Kelly St. Clare

    Rebel's Crusade by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An organisation called the Mandate took my memory.That’s what the staring people—including a grey-eyed man called Atlas—are saying. But if they’re right, why was I targeted?Freed from my chains, I long to start living at last, but the Mandate stands firmly in the way—enslaving my fellow soldiers in space to control Earth’s inhabitants.The answer to everything rests inside my mind...
  • Standing at the Edge by William Alan Webb, J. Gunnar Grey

    Standing at the Edge by William Alan Webb, J. Gunnar Grey

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Nick Angriff’s ultimate enemy finally takes the stage and the 7th Cavalry will never be the same. Operation Overtime has come through its first winter in post-Collapse America in better shape than expected. Food is plentiful, the city of Prescott is healing, and there’s even a battalion of new recruits for the Marines...
  • INDIANA FALL 2 by Michael McDonald, Karen McDonald

    INDIANA FALL 2 by Michael McDonald, Karen McDonald

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 2 of the INDIANA FALL series continues to ask the question, “How would everyday people survive a cataclysmic event?”As Mac's group tries to come to terms with the realization that no help is coming from the national level, a local tyrant emerges and seizes power by controlling all the major grocery stores...
  • Black Hills Fall by Robyn VanDerSys, L.A. Bayles

    Black Hills Fall by Robyn VanDerSys, L.A. Bayles

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mike and Angie Davis were just regular people who enjoyed the outdoors in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Their little community, hidden away in the pines, was the perfect place to raise a family—until everything, everywhere, went dark.The nearby town of Spearfish had always been quiet and peaceful...
  • Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the Linesman series continues, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself facing an alien ship he doesn’t understand—and a terrifying political threat he cannot fight…   The lines. The soul of every ship. It was once thought there were only ten, but that was before an alien vessel appeared at the edge of space—before Ean Lambert heard more lines singing...
  • In the Stormy Red Sky by David Drake

    In the Stormy Red Sky by David Drake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DANIEL LEARY IS CINNABAR'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPACE CAPTAIN; HIS FRIEND, LADY ADELE MUNDY, IS ITS MOST EFFICIENT SPY--BUT THEY'VE GOT THEIR HANDS FULL THIS TIME AS THEY FACE:• A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing an election—and still powerful enough to make her anger deadly...
  • Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray

    Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For four weeks Maddie has been living in Los Angeles, trying to be good. But no matter how hard she tries, something inside her won't be sated. She can't live a life of half-truths and false pretenses. So one night, she says how she really feels.That's all it takes. One night...
  • DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff

    DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lemon Fresh has seen better days.After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies...
  • Insignia by S.J. Kincaid

    Insignia by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia, the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game.The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero. He's a short fourteen-year-old with bad skin...
  • Storm from the Shadows by David Weber

    Storm from the Shadows by David Weber

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Perfidious Plots,Courageous Resolve—and,of course,Starships Blown to Smithereens!The Solarian League Navy has been the premier navy of the galaxy for centuries. Indeed, no one can remember a time when it hasn't been acknowledged as the most powerful fleet in existence.Until now, that is.A conference to end the terrible war between the Peeps of Haven and the Manticorean Star Kingdom is slated...
  • The Gender End by Bella Forrest

    The Gender End by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The breathtaking, earth-shattering GRAND FINALE of the bestselling Gender Game series.Return to Matrus and Patrus one last time..
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