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  • Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future.The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution...
  • Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye...
  • Quantum Roots by Kyle Keyes

    Quantum Roots by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Federal agents, Alexis Grumman and Jeremy Wade track down a current day vigilante, whose fingerprints match those of a Korean War veteran. Author Kyle Keyes uses characters from two previous novels, to promote a theory that particle energy formats with a quantum root system, that can bypass time and space...
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    crime  dark  action-adventure  book  contemporary  drama  epic  fiction
  • Blindness by José Saramago

    Blindness by José Saramago

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women...
  • Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Andy Weir

    Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Andy Weir

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 87 ratings
    Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.- - -'Are you happy in your life?'Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious...
  • Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

    Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Stark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw...
  • Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past.Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number...
  • Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith

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

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    dark  crime  romance  mystery  lgbtq  fiction  contemporary  mlm
  • The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz

    The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gun. A mission. No memories. Nameless is back to hunt down an architect of chaos in #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s return to a landscape of hard-won justice.In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence...
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    crime  dark  fiction  audiobook  horror  mystery  suspense  sci-fi
  • Apex by Ramez Naam

    Apex by Ramez Naam

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Global unrest spreads as mass protests advance throughout the US and China, Nexus-upgraded riot police battle against upgraded protestors, and a once-dead scientist plans to take over the planet's electronic systems. The world has never experienced turmoil of this type, on this scale.They call them the Apex - humanity's replacement. They're smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous...
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    crime  dystopia  politics  action-adventure  adult  ai  audiobook  book
  • Recursion by Blake Crouch, سعید سیمرغ

    Recursion by Blake Crouch, سعید سیمرغ

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 77 ratings
    Memory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes...
  • Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...
  • Why You Were Taken by J.T. Lawrence

    Why You Were Taken by J.T. Lawrence

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Imagine discovering your murdered parents were really your abductors. Then you find out you're on the hit list, too. In tomorrow's world, a troubled woman approaches Kirsten with a warning and a wafer key and is later found dead...
  • Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One island. Seven deadly sins.*Abducted from their life in Miami, Valerie and her sister wake up in a secret society run by the world's most powerful people. Now "property" of a sadistic tyrant, Valerie joins other captives who are forced to compete in gladiator style fights and to participate in the elite's deviant fantasies...
  • Borderless by Eliot Peper

    Borderless by Eliot Peper

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Information is power, and whoever controls the feed rules the world in this all-too-plausible follow-up to the science fiction thriller Bandwidth.Exiled from Washington after a covert operation gone wrong, Diana is building a new life as a freelance spy, though her obsessive secrecy is driving away the few friends and allies she can count on...
  • 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:
    dystopia  politics  adult  apocalyptic  book  death  disaster  epidemy
  • Amen Maxine by Faith Gardner

    Amen Maxine by Faith Gardner

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A new marriage.A perfect home.A machine that says it’s all a lie.Welcome to Silicon Valley, where the weather is perfect, the income is high … and Rowena Snyder is miserable. A transplant from New York, Rowena moved into her husband Jacob’s idyllic childhood home with their new baby. But suburbia isn’t Rowena’s cup of Starbucks. And she’s got serious anxiety and depression to boot...
  • Warchild by Karin Lowachee

    Warchild by Karin Lowachee

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The merchant ship Mukudori encompasses the whole of eight-year-old Jos's world, until a notorious pirate destroys the ship, slaughters the adults, and enslaves the children. Thus begins a desperate odyssey of terror and escape that takes Jos beyond known space to the homeworld of the strits, Earth's alien enemies. To survive, the boy must become a living weapon and a master spy...
  • Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

    Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he'd helped create...
  • Atlas Alone by Emma Newman

    Atlas Alone by Emma Newman

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of humanity.Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed the world...
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    crime  dystopia  politics  21st-century  adult  ai  audiobook  book
  • Nexus by Ramez Naam

    Nexus by Ramez Naam

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mankind gets an upgradeIn the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it...
  • Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman’s waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Gibson Vaughn series. In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature...
  • The Hush by Sara Foster

    The Hush by Sara Foster

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A multigenerational, female-led thriller, and a terrifying conspiracy that goes right to the heart of the British Government.Six months ago, in an English hospital, a healthy baby wouldn’t take a breath at birth. Since then there have been more tragedies, and now the country is in turmoil. The government is clamping down on people’s freedoms...
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

    A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism...
  • Obscura by Joe Hart

    Obscura by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    She's felt it before … the fear of losing control. And it's happening again. In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure...
  • Last and First Men/Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

    Last and First Men/Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is "mankind" in an ultimate definition — intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos...
  • Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rob Chandler, regaining consciousness, realizes he's somehow been involved in a horrendous car accident. In pain and unable to move, he has no memory of his identity, or how the hell he'd gotten on that deserted desert road in the middle of nowhere. He has little time to contemplate his situation when he sees an 18-wheeler barreling down on him...
  • 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...
  • Society of the Mind by Eric L. Harry

    Society of the Mind by Eric L. Harry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A chilling cyberthriller about a brilliant--and beautiful-- psychologist trapped in a web of futuristic terror.When Dr. Laura Aldridge, a young Harvard psychology professor, is offered one million dollars by billionaire computer-genius and inventor Joseph Gray to assist on a mysterious project, she leaves her comfortable existence to live on his beautiful island in the South Pacific...
  • 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...
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z...
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka

    The Trial by Franz Kafka

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  politics  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Last Town by Blake Crouch

    The Last Town by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed...
  • The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield

    The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race from New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary). 1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles from home. A quarter million miles from help...
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka, Arthur H. Samuelson

    The Trial by Franz Kafka, Arthur H. Samuelson

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information...
  • One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie

    One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you could test your son for a gene that predicts violence, would you do it?Antonia and Bea are sisters, and doting mothers to their sons. But that is where their similarities end.Antonia had her son tested to make sure he didn’t possess the "violent" M gene.Bea refuses to let her son take the test. His life should not be determined by a positive or negative result...
  • In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

    In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka. This story is set in a penal colony with no name. The book describes the last use of a torture and execution device developed sculpting condemned the judgment against her skin before you let him die, all in the course of twelve hours...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  20th-century  absurdism  adult  audiobook  book
  • Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, James Woods

    Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, James Woods

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The second of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's bestselling book, Four Past Midnight. Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake--that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  horror  fiction  mystery  audiobook  suspense  fantasy
  • Uncanny by Sarah Fine

    Uncanny by Sarah Fine

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two sisters. One death. No memories.Cora should remember every detail about the night her stepsister, Hannah, fell down a flight of stairs to her death, especially since her Cerepin—a sophisticated brain-computer interface—may have recorded each horrifying moment. But when she awakens after that night, her memories gone, Cora is left with only questions—and dread of what the answers might mean...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  dystopia  abuse  ai  amnesia  audiobook  book
  • The Castle by Franz Kafka

    The Castle by Franz Kafka

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Translated and with a preface by Mark HarmanLeft unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle...
  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

    Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client...
  • Hour of Judgement by Susan R. Matthews

    Hour of Judgement by Susan R. Matthews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Burkhayden is a subject colony, leased by the Bench to a Dolgorukij familial corporation for economic exploitation. When a Nurail woman from the service house is brutally raped and beaten, Andrej Koscuisko –- Ship’s Inquisitor on board the Jurisdiction Fleet Ship Ragnarok –- is called upon to render services under contract...
  • Black Hole by Bucky Sinister

    Black Hole by Bucky Sinister

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are no old drug addicts. That's what everyone says, at least. So how did Chuck get to his forty-third birthday and find himself still neck-deep in this scene? He knows he's the creepy old guy with the drugs or the guy who's too old to be at the party doing everyone else's drugs, but if it ain't broke ... Well, he manages to make it to work at the dwarf whale distributor every day...
  • The Registration by Madison Lawson

    The Registration by Madison Lawson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can’t outrun the RegistrationImagine it’s legal to commit one murder in your lifetime–if you Register the victim and accomplish the kill within fourteen days. So when Lynell Mize stands in line to Register the man who abused her as a child, she’s shocked to hear a stranger Register her to be killed...
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    dystopia  crime  fiction  mystery  sci-fi  horror  audiobook  suspense
  • The Wicked We Have Done by Sarah Harian

    The Wicked We Have Done by Sarah Harian

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evalyn Ibarra never expected to be an accused killer and experimental prison test subject. A year ago, she was a normal college student. Now she’s been sentenced to a month in the compass room—an advanced prison obstacle course designed by the government to execute justice. If she survives, the world will know she’s innocent...
  • Five Minds by Guy Morpuss

    Five Minds by Guy Morpuss

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ONE BODY. FIVE MINDS. ONE KILLER.The Earth's growing population has finally been controlled. Lifespans are limited to eighty years, except for those who make an extreme choice: to become a commune. Five minds sharing one body, living for four hours at a time. But with a combined lifespan of nearly 150 years.Alex, Kate, Sierra, Ben and Mike are a commune...
  • The Last Illusion of Paige White by Vanessa McCausland

    The Last Illusion of Paige White by Vanessa McCausland

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Compelling, haunting, and beautifully written . . . a clever, page-turning modern mystery as well as a thoughtful exploration of female friendship, family dynamics, and the complex impact of social media on self-identity.”—Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author A breathtaking novel about two women, a tragedy on the lake—and secrets beneath the surface...
  • Lexicon by Max Barry

    Lexicon by Max Barry

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science...
  • Квест by Boris Akunin

    Квест by Boris Akunin

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Квест" - новый роман из серии "Жанры", в которой Борис Акунин представляет образцы всевозможных видов литературы, как существующих, так и изобретенных автором.К числу последних относится и "роман-компьютерная игра" - книга, которую можно не только читать, но в которую можно и играть. Этот остросюжетный роман построен по законам и логике компьютерной игры...
The Glass Box by J. Michael Straczynski
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