Books To Read if You Love Dark Matter
There are infinite realities. Blake Crouch’s thrilling sci-fi novel — and the inspiration for the new series on Apple TV+ — follows Jason Dessen, a professor and family man, who is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Desperate to get back to the family he loves, he will stop at nothing to return home. Each of the science fiction novels in this list of books like Dark Matter presents a new and exciting alternate reality that you will love to get lost in. Get ready to explore the infinite!
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Add to BookshelfDark Matter (Movie Tie-In)
by Blake Crouch
A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew. Dark Matter is a mind-bending novel about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.
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Recursion
by Blake Crouch
At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery — and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself…
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Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
Daemons: Computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also make it vulnerable … Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly).
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The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton
The novel that redefined the science fiction genre, starring a team of scientists who must uncover what killed the citizens of a sleepy desert town — and stop the deadly contagion before it creates a catastrophe.
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The Gone World
by Tom Sweterlitsch
Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.
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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
The New York Times bestselling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation.
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Those Beyond the Wall
by Micaiah Johnson
A searing sci-fi thriller about a woman reckoning with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in the face of a coming apocalypse — from the Compton Cook Award-winning author of The Space Between Worlds.
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Sleeping Giants
by Sylvain Neuvel
A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery — and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
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The Fold
by Peter Clines
Step into the fold. It’s perfectly safe … A cunningly inventive mystery featuring a hero worthy of Sherlock Holmes and a terrifying final twist you’ll never see coming, The Fold is that rarest of things: A genuinely page-turning science fiction thriller.
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Counterweight
by Djuna
For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevator. An “antic, madcap noir with flair” (Wired) and “fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one of South Korea’s most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown.
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Artemis
by Andy Weir
The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller — a heist story set on the moon. Propelled by its heroine’s wisecracking voice, set in a city that’s at once stunningly imagined and intimately familiar, and brimming over with clever problem-solving and heist-y fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from Andy Weir.
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The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning. But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
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Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
by Charles Yu
From the National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father … through quantum space-time.
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The Circle
by Dave Eggers
A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy, and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives — a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair).
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City of Orange
by David Yoon
A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time. Then he encounters an old man, a crow, and a boy — and realizes that nothing is what he thought it was, neither the present nor the past. Harrowing and haunting but also humorous in the face of the unfathomable, David Yoon’s City of Orange is a novel about reassembling the things that make us who we are, and finding the way home again.
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