10 Best science fiction books like Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

Cover of Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,…

"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

If you liked the science fiction plot in Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

1. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

Similar categories in Justin Cronin's The Ferryman book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • audiobook
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
Cover of Upgrade by Blake Crouch

2. Upgrade

By: Blake Crouch

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You are the next step in human evolution. At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s diffe… read more

Similar categories in Blake Crouch's Upgrade book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
"I had extraordinary dreams, and an ordinary mind."

-Blake Crouch, Upgrade

"I could not choose my desires, only whether to pursue them."

-Blake Crouch, Upgrade

"Human nature will be the last part of nature to surrender to man.- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man"

-Blake Crouch, Upgrade

"It is a supremely cruel thing to have your mind conjure a desire which it is functionally unable to realize. No one teaches you how to handle the death of a dream."

-Blake Crouch, Upgrade

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

3. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Cover of Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

4. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's Dinosaurs book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

Cover of Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib

5. Hawk Mountain

By: Conner Habib

3.75

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception,… read more

Similar categories in Conner Habib's Hawk Mountain book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien

6. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

Similar categories in Tim O'Brien's America Fantastica book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow

7. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

8. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's The Devil Takes You Home book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

9. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

Cover of Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

10. Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more

Similar categories in Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

Cover of Aurora by David Koepp

11. Aurora

By: David Koepp

3.79

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace a… read more

Similar categories in David Koepp's Aurora book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"on September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison would turn on the generators at Pearl Street Station, in Lower Manhattan, activating America's first power grid. Human beings were on the path to total electrical …"

-David Koepp, Aurora

Cover of Big Time by Ben H. Winters

12. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

13. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Ascension by Nicholas Binge

14. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson

15. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Cover of Dr. No by Percival Everett

16. Dr. No

By: Percival Everett

3.71

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's Dr. No book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • science fiction
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

Cover of An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

17. An Honest Living

By: Dwyer Murphy

3.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fa… read more

Similar categories in Dwyer Murphy's An Honest Living book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
Cover of Sugar Street by Jonathan  Dee

18. Sugar Street

By: Jonathan Dee

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Dee's Sugar Street book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Great Man Theory by Teddy Wayne

19. The Great Man Theory

By: Teddy Wayne

3.79

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, comes the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply… read more

Similar categories in Teddy Wayne's The Great Man Theory book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters

20. The Quiet Boy

By: Ben H. Winters

3.51

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State,a sweeping legal thriller abou… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
"No wonder we are a little frightened of our children, Beth thought. They are strange visitors from the future, emissaries from a world we will never see."

-Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy

Cover of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

21. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

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Justin Cronin

3.93

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3.81

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Nick Harkaway

4.03

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Lydia Millet

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