10 must-read science fiction books like The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray

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The Last Day

By: Andrew Hunter Murray

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future--with…

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Cover of Steal the Sky (Scorched Continent, #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

1. Steal the Sky (Scorched Continent, #1)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Detan Honding, a wanted conman of noble birth and ignoble tongue, has found himself in the oasis ci… read more

Similar categories in Megan E. O'Keefe's Steal the Sky (Scorched Continent, #1) book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Cover of The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman

3. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

Cover of In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

4. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

Cover of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer

5. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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6. The Wall

By: John Lanchester

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more

Similar categories in John Lanchester's The Wall book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

Cover of The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray

7. The Last Day

By: Andrew Hunter Murray

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future--with… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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8. The Last Astronaut

By: David Wellington

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future… read more

Similar categories in David Wellington's The Last Astronaut book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of On Wilder Seas: The Woman on the Golden Hind by Nikki Marmery

9. On Wilder Seas: The Woman on the Golden Hind

By: Nikki Marmery

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

April 1579: When two ships meet off the Pacific coast of New Spain, an enslaved woman seizes the ch… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Marmery's On Wilder Seas: The Woman on the Golden Hind book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • fiction
Cover of My Name is Monster by Katie Hale

10. My Name is Monster

By: Katie Hale

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, M… read more

Similar categories in Katie Hale's My Name is Monster book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"…not speaking can sometimes be just as loud as saying words."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

"I found that thinking was easier when there was someone to talk at."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

"…it is easier to think about hating people than about wanting them."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

"I say my story starts here because endings are always a kind of beginning."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

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11. The After Days

By: Amy Ginsburg

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world without power, you need the power of friendship and love to survive."This is far and awa… read more

Similar categories in Amy Ginsburg's The After Days book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • dystopia
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
Cover of The Forcing by Paul E. Hardisty

12. The Forcing

By: Paul E. Hardisty

3.90

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Lured by rumours of tropical sanctuary, a disparate group of men and women escape their inhospitabl… read more

Similar categories in Paul E. Hardisty's The Forcing book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of Love is a Curse by Keith Stuart

13. Love is a Curse

By: Keith Stuart

3.97

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

A single sentence was all it took to define Cammy's life. They came as her beloved artist aunt was … read more

Similar categories in Keith Stuart's Love is a Curse book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • fiction
Cover of The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World by Dom Joly

14. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World

By: Dom Joly

3.69

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more

Similar categories in Dom Joly's The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • audiobook
Cover of Evergreens by Liam Brown

15. Evergreens

By: Liam Brown

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you could stay young forever? What if you never had to grow old? Ben has no qualms abou… read more

Similar categories in Liam Brown's Evergreens book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of the Year 2019 by James Harkin

16. The Book of the Year 2019

By: James Harkin

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious an… read more

Similar categories in James Harkin's The Book of the Year 2019 book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • audiobook
Cover of Resolution (Ray Lennox, #3) by Irvine Welsh

17. Resolution (Ray Lennox, #3)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

"The truth is what we say the truth is . . . " Former detective Ray Lennox is determined to sta… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's Resolution (Ray Lennox, #3) book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • audiobook
Cover of Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky

18. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of the Year by James Harkin

19. The Book of the Year

By: James Harkin

4.29

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

In a year when much of the news was believable but fake, comes a book packed with stories that are … read more

Similar categories in James Harkin's The Book of the Year book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • audiobook
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20. Red Hope

By: John Dreese

3.65

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

RED HOPE: 5th Anniversary Edition, Updated & Re-Edited Aliens exist... and the Mars Curiosity ro… read more

Similar categories in John Dreese's Red Hope book and Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook

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