Andy Weir 2021
- What it is
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Meeting beings from another world · it grabs you with a mystery
- Genre
- Science fiction Mystery Thriller
- Feels
- Hopeful Mysterious Wry Adventurous Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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You need to know how it ends · meeting beings from another world
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One more chapter, then another · properly scary
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You can't put it down and wry
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You need to know how it ends · the truth comes out bit by bit
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It grabs you with a mystery · it messes with your head
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You'll finish it in two nights · odd and endearing
Recursion
Blake Crouch 2019
A mystery you want to solve · nothing is quite what it seems
I am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes 2013
You need to know how it ends · it tells it straight
The Butcher’s Masquerade
Matt Dinniman 2022
One more chapter, then another · sharp and very funny
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch 2016
A mystery you want to solve · nothing is quite what it seems
Passage
Justin Cronin 2010
One more chapter, then another · you won't want to come back
Sahara
Clive Cussler 1982
You need to know how it ends · a world to get lost in
Thunderhead
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child 1999
A mystery you want to solve · in search of a lost world or a treasure
Seven Deadly Wonders
Matthew Reilly 2005
You can't put it down · in search of a lost world or a treasure
Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly 1895
You can't put it down · nobody is entirely good
The lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch 2001
You'll finish it in two nights · funny, and it bites
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne 2007
One more chapter, then another · adventure with a touch of madness
7 books
Alien contact and wry
Agent to the Stars
John Scalzi 2005
Readers put them together in Alien comes to earth and pretends to be human?
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells 2015
Like yours: alien contact · full of big ideas
Humans
Matt Haig 2013
Grouped with yours in Alien comes to earth and pretends to be human?
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut 2004
Like yours: alien contact · adventure with a touch of madness
Devolution
Max Brooks 2020
In common with yours: survival · properly scary
4 books · Alike in just one
Only you can't put it down
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz 2017
You can't put it down · nobody is entirely good
11/22/63
Stephen King 1925
You need to know how it ends · travelling in time
Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson 2020
A mystery you want to solve · fierce and defiant
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson 2010
A mystery you want to solve · you won't want to come back
6 books · Alike in just one
Only alien contact
Contact
Carl Sagan 1986
Readers put them together in Sci-fi novels whose movies are just as good
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu 2008
A mystery you want to solve · full of big ideas
Hike
Drew Magary 2016
In common with yours: survival · properly strange
Solaris
Stanisław Lem 2002
Readers put them together in Science fiction with a soul
Way Station
Clifford D. Simak 1980
Like yours: alien contact · full of big ideas
Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler 1993
Like yours: survival · fierce and defiant
5 books · Alike in just one
Only wry
Space Team
Barry J. Hutchison 2016
A reader shelved it with yours in Alien comes to earth and pretends to be human?
The girl with all the gifts
Mike Carey 2014
It tells it with no filter · it stirs you up inside
None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell 2023
You need to know how it ends · the truth comes out bit by bit
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein 2011
Full of big ideas · a society that controls everything
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