7 Best thriller books like The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger

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The Extractionist

By: Kimberly Unger

3.61

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

2023 Philip K. Dick Award Winner In her latest exciting technothriller, acclaimed author Kimberl…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn

1. The Icarus Hunt

By: Timothy Zahn

4.30

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Smuggler Jordan McKell has partner Ixil, an alien whose two "ferrets" ride his shoulders and telepa… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Zahn's The Icarus Hunt book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

2. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

3. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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4. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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5. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
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6. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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

7. 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 Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • mystery thriller
  • 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)

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8. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

By: Cory Doctorow

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of t… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2) book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

Similar categories in Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

Cover of Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1) by Cory Doctorow

11. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.90

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1) book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."

-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

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12. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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15. The Extractionist

By: Kimberly Unger

3.61

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

2023 Philip K. Dick Award Winner In her latest exciting technothriller, acclaimed author Kimberl… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • mystery thriller
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

3.71

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."

-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

Cover of Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) by L.M. Sagas

17. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Sagas's Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Counterweight

By: Djuna

3.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more

Similar categories in Djuna's Counterweight book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
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19. Dead Space

By: Kali Wallace

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science … read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Dead Space book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
"I was never given a choice, I wanted to say, but I couldn't bring myself to speak the words aloud. It was true, and it was a comforting lie. We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we …"

-Kali Wallace, Dead Space

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20. 36 Streets

By: T.R. Napper

3.95

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, … read more

Similar categories in T.R. Napper's 36 Streets book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • audiobook
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
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21. Moonbound

By: Robin Sloan

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more

Similar categories in Robin Sloan's Moonbound book and Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger

Transform Your Habits

The Icarus Hunt

Timothy Zahn

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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