If you want a book that is just plain weird then you really need to try Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig, book one of his Miriam Black series. Miriam is a drifter who wanders around the country hitching rides and robbing dead bodies. Mind you, she doesn’t actually kill anyone but she has the rather unusual…
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is the epitome of a great horror story. It tells the story of Dr. Montague, a man who is fascinated by the supernatural and determined to prove it actually exists by finding definitive proof of a haunting. After he manages to arrange for a stay in a…
The Atlantis Plague by A. G. Riddle is the second book in The Origin Mystery series and continues the story of Dr. Kate Warner and David Vale. Kate is now in Marbella, Spain with Martin and is working on either improving the current treatment for the Atlantis Plague or finding a potential cure for it.…
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve is the first book in the Mortal Engines series. Tom Natsworthy is a young apprentice historian in the London museum, however his London is a traction city meaning it is on wheels. When London successfully chases and attacks a smaller traction town across the wastelands of what was Britain it…
The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter is a tale of intrigue and espionage. Slim Parsons is an agent for the security service, also known as MI5. When she ends up locked in a life and death struggle while on a plane with the subject of her investigation, known as Operation Hagfish, she finds herself running…
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy is the first book in The Border trilogy. John Grady Cole is a young man of about sixteen when his grandfather passes away in 1949. His mother refuses to have anything to do with her family’s ranch and has long since left behind both John Grady and his…
Time to drop back in with Dr. Temperance Brennan with Bare Bones, book six of the Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs. Brennan is working out of Charlotte when she receives a call to investigate the body of an infant that has been burned inside a stove. Since she knows the baby’s maternal grandfather she…
The Scorch Trials, book two of the Maze Runner series by James Dashner, picks up immediately after the events of the first book. Thomas, Teresa, Minho, Newt and the rest of the gladers are staying at the shelter where they have just been taken when weird things start happening. Teresa disappears in the middle of…
If you want an edge of your seat science thriller then you seriously need to try Whiteout by Ken Follett. When a canister of a potentially deadly virus turns up missing from Oxenford Medical days before Christmas, the head of security Toni Gallo does everything she can to find out what happened. Discovering a lab…
If you want to see the potential consequences of climate change then you should probably read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It opens in India during an extreme heat wave, so extreme that whole provinces end up losing power, and thus air conditioning, for days on end due to being unable…
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