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Unnerving and unforgettable, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography set in a chilling alternate past.
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+
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Unnerving and unforgettable, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography set in a chilling alternate past. Co-authored by Jeffrey Cranor (Welcome to Night Vale) and Janina Matthewson, this haunting novel explores trauma, disconnection, and dangerous ideologies. With a 4.3-star Amazon rating, it’s a gripping meditation on memory, survival, and what we’re willing to forget.
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In an alternate twentieth century shaped by a decades-long war, Miriam survives by detaching from everyone and everything. When peace finally comes, The New Society mandates her way of life—no families, no attachments, no exceptions.
As a researcher, Miriam helps shape this unsettling new order. But what begins as scientific work becomes a tool of control, and the consequences are more devastating than she ever imagined. Haunted by guilt, she hatches a plan to dismantle the system she helped create, even if it costs her everything.
Told as a fictional autobiography, this chilling and intimate story questions memory, morality, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive.
Is Miriam’s confession a reckoning—or another layer of manipulation?
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What happens when battle bots find empathy or androids fall in love?
Machine Learning
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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What happens when battle bots find empathy or androids fall in love? Machine Learning is a gripping short story collection from Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool. With 4.4 stars on Amazon, this mix of new and classic tales explores AI, video games, and parallel worlds through razor-sharp storytelling and thought-provoking ideas. A must-read for sci-fi fans.
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From the mind behind Wool comes a stunning collection of speculative stories that explore the edge of technology, the depth of humanity, and the eerie space where the two collide.
Machine Learning features 20 short stories, including three set in the Wool universe and two never-before-published tales. These are stories of war machines that refuse to kill, androids who fall in love, gamers who discover hidden realities, and societies reshaped by AI.
Each piece is paired with a personal author’s note, offering insight into Hugh Howey’s inspiration and process.
Whether you’re new to Howey or a longtime fan, this collection is a masterclass in imagination and emotional resonance. These stories will leave you questioning not just the future of tech, but the future of us.
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A strong fit for readers who like literary post-apocalyptic fiction, nonlinear timelines, ensemble casts, and stories about art, memory, and community after collapse.
Station Eleven
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Time Travel
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A national bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Station Eleven follows actress Kirsten Raymonde and the Traveling Symphony twenty years after a flu pandemic, as they perform across Great Lakes settlements and confront a violent prophet, with a 4.1-star average from more than 640,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong fit for readers who like literary post-apocalyptic fiction, nonlinear timelines, ensemble casts, and stories about art, memory, and community after collapse.
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This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to “The Mandelverse”
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.
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One year after an EMP devastated the U.S., the survivors of Black Mountain face a new threat: a tyrannical regime posing as salvation.
One Year After
Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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One year after an EMP devastated the U.S., the survivors of Black Mountain face a new threat: a tyrannical regime posing as salvation. In One Year After, the gripping sequel to One Second After, John Matherson must fight not just for survival, but for liberty. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this post-apocalyptic thriller raises chilling questions about power and control.
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A year has passed since the electromagnetic pulse attack crippled the United States. In Black Mountain, North Carolina, survivors are rebuilding slowly. Electricity flickers. Medicine is scarce. Hope is fragile but alive.
Then a new threat arrives.
A federal administrator claims the government is back. With him comes the promise of order, but also a mandate. The town’s young people will be drafted into the so-called Army of National Recovery and sent far from home to fight battles they do not understand.
John Matherson led his people through the worst year of their lives. Now he must decide whether to submit to the New Regime or rise against it.
In a world where freedom is fading and survival is never guaranteed, resistance might be the only path forward.
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From Hugo winner Sarah Pinsker comes We Are Satellites (4.3 stars on Amazon), a haunting, near-future novel where brain implants promise success—but quietly divide society.
We Are Satellites
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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From Hugo winner Sarah Pinsker comes We Are Satellites (4.3 stars on Amazon), a haunting, near-future novel where brain implants promise success—but quietly divide society. As one family fractures over who gets the tech and who resists, questions of autonomy, pressure, and power collide. Taut, timely, and emotionally resonant sci-fi with a rebellious streak.
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When brain implants become the new normal, one family is split by the choice.
Val and Julie want what’s best for their kids. So when their son David asks for a “Pilot”—a sleek brain-enhancing implant designed to boost focus—they say yes. Soon everyone’s getting one: students, professionals, even Julie. Everyone except Val and daughter Sophie.
But the more “connected” the world becomes, the more Sophie sees what’s being lost—and who’s being left behind.
As the divide deepens and the Pilot becomes impossible to escape, Sophie joins a resistance movement that will challenge corporate power, societal pressure, and her own family.
In We Are Satellites, Hugo Award winner Sarah Pinsker delivers a smart, intimate, and chilling look at the cost of progress—and the power of dissent.
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With 4.2 stars on Amazon and comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale, Red Clocks is a hauntingly timely dystopian novel by Leni Zumas.
Red Clocks
Dystopian · Literary Fiction
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With 4.2 stars on Amazon and comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale, Red Clocks is a hauntingly timely dystopian novel by Leni Zumas. Five women fight for autonomy in a world where abortion is illegal and IVF is banned. Sharp, poetic, and deeply personal, this is feminist fiction that cuts to the bone—and dares to imagine a different future.
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In a reimagined America where abortion is illegal, IVF is banned, and embryos have legal rights, five women wrestle with what it means to have—or be—a body.
Ro, a single teacher, longs for a child and a legacy. Mattie, her teenage student, is pregnant and out of options. Susan is unraveling inside her suburban marriage. Gin, a reclusive healer, is hunted like a witch. And at the center: a forgotten female explorer whose story Ro is desperate to tell.
As their lives collide in a small Oregon town, Red Clocks asks a brutal, urgent question: What is a woman for?
Ferocious, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest, Leni Zumas’s dystopian novel is a modern-day Handmaid’s Tale—a searing portrait of resistance, identity, and hope when the law no longer recognizes your life.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dystopian fiction about immigration, belonging, and moral pressure.
The Test
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Social/Political Commentary
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A Goodreads Choice Award nominee, The Test follows Idir as he sits the British Citizenship Test in a near-future Britain where twenty-five questions determine his family’s fate. When the exam takes a tragic turn, he is forced into a life-or-death choice, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 1,600 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dystopian fiction about immigration, belonging, and moral pressure.
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Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test
Britain, 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.
How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?
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A 4.3-star New York Times bestseller, The Bone Season launches Samantha Shannon’s acclaimed dystopian fantasy series.
The Bone Season
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult
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A 4.3-star New York Times bestseller, The Bone Season launches Samantha Shannon’s acclaimed dystopian fantasy series. Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney is a fugitive clairvoyant in a regime where her very existence is treason. Arrested and thrust into a secret city, she faces an ancient power and a dangerous alliance. Dark, brilliant, and utterly immersive.
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In 2059, being clairvoyant is a crime—and Paige Mahoney is very, very guilty.
As a dreamwalker, Paige works in London’s underground, using her rare powers to infiltrate minds. But under the Republic of Scion, “unnaturalness” is punishable by death. When she’s arrested for a murder she didn’t commit, Paige expects execution.
Instead, she’s taken to a hidden prison city and handed over to Scion’s secret rulers—inhuman beings with their own dark agenda.
To survive, Paige must harness her gift, outwit her captors, and decide whether to trust the enemy whose help might be her only way out.
With sweeping worldbuilding, a fierce heroine, and a simmering slow-burn romance, The Bone Season is the explosive start to Samantha Shannon’s epic dystopian fantasy saga.
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, Internment is a gripping near-future dystopia by Samira Ahmed.
Internment
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, Internment is a gripping near-future dystopia by Samira Ahmed. Seventeen-year-old Layla is forced into an internment camp for Muslim Americans—but she refuses to stay silent. With danger rising, she sparks a revolution. Heart-racing and fiercely relevant, this powerful novel is both a warning and a rallying cry.
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In a terrifying near-future America, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is torn from her home and forced into an internment camp for Muslim Americans.
Stripped of freedom and surrounded by fear, Layla refuses to be silent. With the help of fellow detainees, a defiant boyfriend on the outside, and a risky alliance with a surprising ally, she dares to resist the system designed to crush her.
As surveillance tightens and violence looms, Layla’s rebellion ignites a movement—one that could cost her everything.
Instantly a New York Times bestseller, Internment is a gripping, emotionally charged call to action. Samira Ahmed delivers a chillingly plausible dystopia where silence is complicity—and one girl’s courage could change the future.
Revolutions don’t wait. They rise.
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The oceans begin to strike back with coordinated, catastrophic force.
The Swarm
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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The oceans begin to strike back with coordinated, catastrophic force. In The Swarm, unexplained marine attacks and ecological disasters push a global team of scientists to uncover the existence of the Yrr, an intelligent life form manipulating sea creatures to retaliate against humanity. This eco thriller blends scientific inquiry with escalating tension, exploring environmental consequence, collective survival, and the unsettling possibility that Earth itself has turned hostile.
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Now a CW Original Series
The Der Spiegel number #1 blockbuster bestseller about an intelligent life force that takes over the oceans and exacts revenge on mankind!
Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic eyeless crabs poison Long Island’s water supply. Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean’s revenge. In this riveting eco-thriller, full of twists, turns, and cliffhangers, a team of scientists discovers a strange, intelligent life force called the Yrr that takes form in marine life in order to wreak havoc on man for his abuses. The Day After Tomorrow meets The Abyss in this gripping, scientifically realist, utterly imaginative science fiction thriller. With the compellingly creepy and vivid skill of this author to evoke story, character, and place, Frank Schatzing’s book are certain to find a home with fans of Michael Crichton.
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A brilliant boy.
The Boy on the Bridge
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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A brilliant boy. A crumbling world. A mission with everything at stake. The Boy on the Bridge, set in the universe of The Girl With All the Gifts, is a gripping standalone about science, survival, and sacrifice. With 4.4 stars on Amazon, M. R. Carey’s haunting tale blends horror and heart in a powerful exploration of humanity at the edge.
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One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Today-bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts.
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.
The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world.
To where the monsters lived.
"Strange and surprising and humane" (Lauren Beukes), The Boy on the Bridge is a gripping, powerful story that will make you question what it means to be human.
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With 4.4 stars on Amazon and Stephen King’s stamp of approval, this gripping saga is perfect for fans of sweeping, high-stakes storytelling.
The Passage
Dystopian · Mystery · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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A viral experiment gone wrong. A quiet girl who may be the key to saving the world. The Passage, the bestselling first book in Justin Cronin's acclaimed trilogy, blends post-apocalyptic horror, epic fantasy, and literary depth. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and Stephen King’s stamp of approval, this gripping saga is perfect for fans of sweeping, high-stakes storytelling.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival,The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
Look for the entire Passage trilogy:
THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS
Praise for The Passage
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News & World Report • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage • Library Journal
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