9 must-read science fiction books like The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

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The Dreamers

By: Karen Thompson Walker

3.63

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her …

"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Driftwood Tides

By: Gina Holmes

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

He made himself an island until something unexpected washed ashore.When Holton lost his wife, Adele… read more

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2. Blind Spot

By: None

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

There's none so blind as they that won't see. Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni's body floated to the… read more

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3. Good Morning, Midnight

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

3.84

Format: 95 pages, ebook

Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remot… read more

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4. The Ghost Notebooks

By: Ben Dolnick

3.92

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more

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5. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

Similar categories in Therisa Peimer's Taming Flame book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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6. Foe

By: Iain Reid

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. … read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's Foe book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’ve been told these old barns are physical reminders of an older life, when things were different. They need upkeep. They need to be restored. It would be a tragedy if the one in this field is ablaz…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house. ‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’ Anybody can remember details if you ask them…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

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7. The Last Sunset

By: March Lions

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother di… read more

Similar categories in March Lions's The Last Sunset book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • contemporary
"Trust is a strange bedfellow."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"I don't want to be caught with my pants down."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"He sounds like a politician running for office."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"The truth has a way of coming out of the closet."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

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8. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

By: Todor Bombov

4.37

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more

Similar categories in Todor Bombov's Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • science fiction
  • contemporary
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

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9. Child of Another Kind

By: Steven Decker

4.29

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why? Single mom Cynthia Pace has he… read more

Similar categories in Steven Decker's Child of Another Kind book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"No,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"Teacher,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"We do not sleep,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"They came for me the next morning."

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

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10. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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11. Afterland

By: Lauren Beukes

3.26

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still ho… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Beukes's Afterland book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The dark comfort of mortality, she thinks, the reminder that other people before them dreamed and suffered, created strange architecture, and disappeared for reasons incomprehensible to those coming …"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

"Non ti conosco e non so cosa è successo nella tua vita. Ma quello che voglio dirti è che vale la pena raccontare alcuni segreti. Altrimenti ti avvelenano come la chemioterapia... ti scavano dall'inte…"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

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12. How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more

Similar categories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Death has become a way of life"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Life is always easier for boys."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"She always preferred celestial objects to people."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

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13. Wilder Girls

By: Rory Power

3.46

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox… read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's Wilder Girls book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
"I’m still bitter,"

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's complicated," She says at last. "Or maybe I just wish it was."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

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14. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Dreamers

By: Karen Thompson Walker

3.63

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her … read more

Similar categories in Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"Every one of her days hums with the possibility that she might be doing it wrong."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

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16. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) by A.R. Merrydew

17. Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.43

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book in the series, ‘Inara’, prepares the reader for the aftermath of Godfrey, and his fr… read more

Similar categories in A.R. Merrydew's Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • contemporary
"Isn’t this exciting!"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

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18. The House Opposite

By: Barbara Noble

4.26

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

It was curious that the aerial bombardment of London, which had ennobled so much that was normally … read more

Similar categories in Barbara Noble's The House Opposite book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Mermaid's Escape (The Siren, #1) by Kellie McAllen

19. The Mermaid's Escape (The Siren, #1)

By: Kellie McAllen

3.73

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07BBXD8KJ Four shipwrecked divers, one mermaid princess who l… read more

Similar categories in Kellie McAllen's The Mermaid's Escape (The Siren, #1) book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Sift

By: Alissa Hattman

4.63

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Two women set out through the haze of social and environmental collapse in search of fertile soil. … read more

Similar categories in Alissa Hattman's Sift book and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers

  • fiction
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21. The Formation of Calcium

By: M.S. Coe

4.36

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A horror story of one woman's awful reinvention, M. S. Coe's The Formation of Calcium is disturbing… read more

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