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  • Executed by R.R. Haywood

    Executed by R.R. Haywood

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn’t think they needed a leader.But they’ve got one anyway.With their mission in tatters, Miri has been called in to steady the ship. And to focus them on their assignment: preventing the end of the world.The problem is, the world doesn’t know it’s in danger...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Search for Sam by Pittacus Lore

    The Search for Sam by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When a rogue Mogadorian meets up with a mysterious amnesiac in Santa Monica, he knows that there's more to this guy than meets the eye. In fact, he might just hold the key to everything.In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files #4, discover what has happened to one of the people with information crucial to the Garde coming together to fight to save Lorien—and Earth...
  • 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...
  • The Fallen Legacies by Pittacus Lore

    The Fallen Legacies by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Before Number Four, there were One, Two, and Three. Until now we've only known that the Mogadorians caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. But all of that is about to change. . . .In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies, you'll learn the true story behind these ill-fated members of the Garde...
  • Bombtrack by Sam Sisavath

    Bombtrack by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BEHIND ENEMY LINES, BUT FAR FROM HELPLESS.Six years ago, Gaby was the most popular girl in high school. Then the world ended. Times have changed, and everyone's unanimous choice for homecoming queen is all grown up.These days she's part of something greater than herself: a group whose sole mission is to restore order to a ravaged world that badly needs them...
  • Getting Home by Ryan Westfield

    Getting Home by Ryan Westfield

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do to get back home?Max and Mandy are stranded miles from camp. Their vehicle has been burned, along with most of their gear. The road ahead means danger and the unknown.Dan and Olivia are holed up in a suburban home. She's gravely injured, and Dan waits anxiously for the soldiers to return...
  • 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...
  • For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis

    For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Every silver lining has a cloud. After the revolution, stability returns for most of the citizens of the European Administration. Revolution has delivered a little more freedom, if not as much as its architects hoped. Some, however, are finding that change also brings more complications and fresh dangers...
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    dystopia  male-mc  suspense  adult  book  crime  dark  female-author
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    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...
  • 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...
  • Mutation by Chris Morphew

    Mutation by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jordan’s world is falling apart. She’s a prisoner in her own skin, trapped by an enemy who can paralyse her at the touch of a button.And the questions in Phoenix keep piling higher.Why is Jordan starting to see things before they happen? What’s wrong with her mother’s pregnancy? And why do Peter’s old friends suddenly want to talk to him again?The clock is still ticking...
  • 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 Fever Code by James Dashner

    The Fever Code by James Dashner

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Once there was a world’s end.The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled.Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man.Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy.The boy’s name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze.Now there are secrets.There are lies...
  • 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...
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    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...
  • Final Chaos by Ryan Westfield

    Final Chaos by Ryan Westfield

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When society falls, how will you protect those you love?They knew the solar flair was coming, but no one knew the effect it would have. The EMP kills the lights and all electronics. Now it’s only a matter of time before chaos erupts.Jim owns a small electronics repair store in Rochester, NY. Unlike his friend, he quickly realizes the reality of the situation...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Amped by Douglas E. Richards

    Amped by Douglas E. Richards

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The highly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times & USA Today bestseller, WIRED. Note: WIRED was the #1 bestselling Kindle book of 2011 in two major categories: sciencefiction and technothrillers (and 19th overall).Kira Miller is a brilliant scientist who discovers how to temporarily boost human IQ to dizzying levels. But this transcendent intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania...
  • 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...
  • Bunker: Code of Honor by Jay J. Falconer

    Bunker: Code of Honor by Jay J. Falconer

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the perpetrators finally reveal themselves, Jack Bunker finds himself the target of a deadly manhunt. They need him eliminated at all costs and are willing to unleash hell across the countryside to achieve their sinister plan. But the trouble doesn’t end there...
  • 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...
  • The Amazon Code by Nick Thacker

    The Amazon Code by Nick Thacker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deep within the Amazon rainforest, a secret lurks. A secret that could change the world....A secret worth killing for.When her company discovers a remarkable hidden message in the dreaming brains of her subjects, Dr. Amanda Meron unknowingly invites disaster unto her company. The clues seem to be pointing her to one of the remote places on the planet:The Amazon Rainforest...
  • 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...
  • Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Before the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love.Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris...
  • 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...
  • Past Prologue by Diana Gabaldon, Steve Berry

    Past Prologue by Diana Gabaldon, Steve Berry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An original short story from iconic thriller collection Match Up, edited by Lee Child, featuring a never-before-seen pairing between bestsellers Diana Gabaldon and Steve Berry...
  • 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...
  • Betrayal in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone

    Betrayal in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As American continues its struggle to rise from the ashes of apocalypse, Europe is slowly dying. Bruno Bottger, the Neo-Nazi monster, has brought forth a new Reich. There is no force in Europe that has a chance of stopping him. Only one force in what's left of the world can do the job--Ben Raines and the SUSA Rebels...
  • 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...
  • Gamer Army by Trent Reedy

    Gamer Army by Trent Reedy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this timely and thrilling novel, Ender's Game meets Ready Player One and several terabytes of fast-paced video game action as five gamers are recruited into a tech giant's secret program.After Rogan Webber levels up yet again on his favorite video game, Laser Viper, the world-famous creator of the game invites him to join the five best players in the country for an exclusive tournament...
  • 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
  • Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three teen geniuses from diverse backgrounds must take down an online terrorist ring, rescue an imprisoned father, and prepare for their final showdown with a misguided mastermind in this third and final book in the Genius YA trilogy by Leopoldo Gout.How do we stop him? We beat him at his own game. Painted Wolf: Mysterious activist blogger and strategist from China...
  • 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...
  • Friends In The Right Places by Manna Francis

    Friends In The Right Places by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Another short story in The Administration series.We get a look at I&I from an outsiders point of view...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  male-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  book  crime  dark
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