6 must-read science fiction books like American Afterlife by Pedro Hoffmeister

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American Afterlife

By: Pedro Hoffmeister

3.80

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The earthquake was just the beginning. Now, the true horror arrives in this unflinching, near-futur…

"There's no logic to loneliness, just nostalgia for something that never was."

-Pedro Hoffmeister, American Afterlife

"There's no logic to loneliness, just nostalgia for something that never was."

-Pedro Hoffmeister, American Afterlife

If you liked the science fiction plot in American Afterlife by Pedro Hoffmeister , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Blue Moon Bay (Moses Lake, #2) by Lisa Wingate

1. Blue Moon Bay (Moses Lake, #2)

By: Lisa Wingate

4.12

Format: 543 pages,

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Killer Next Door

By: Alex Marwood

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

No. 23 has a secret. In this bedsit-riddled south London wreck, lorded over by a lecherous landlord… read more

Similar categories in Alex Marwood's The Killer Next Door book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. The Red Church (Sheriff Frank Littlefield, #1)

By: Scott Nicholson

4.01

Format: 275 pages, ebook

The church was constructed in the 1860s under the guidance of Reverend Wendell McFall. His sermons … read more

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4. Gold Fame Citrus

By: Claire Vaye Watkins

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In a parched southern California of the near future, Luz, once the poster child for the country's c… read more

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5. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Cold People

By: Tom Rob Smith

3.52

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for… read more

Similar categories in Tom Rob Smith's Cold People book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. The Night House

By: Jo Nesbø

3.28

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror n… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

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9. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

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  • audiobook
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

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10. Requiem (Ray Wyatt #3)

By: Rick Mofina

4.34

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

On a flight from Mexico City, Wanda Stroud sees troubling content on the laptop of a passenger seat… read more

Similar categories in Rick Mofina's Requiem (Ray Wyatt #3) book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • audiobook
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12. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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13. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • thriller
  • cults
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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17. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

By: Lizzie Pook

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Pook's Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Swarm

By: Jennifer D. Lyle

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen year-old Shur is one of the first to see the creatures. While staring out the window in his… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer D. Lyle's Swarm book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

By: Gretchen Schreiber

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart in this big-hearted novel from debut author Gretchen Schre… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Schreiber's Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Like a Mother

By: Mina Hardy

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Writing as Mina Hardy, New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart delivers a nail-biting psycholo… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Blind Spots

By: Thomas Mullen

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"The pace is fast, the body count significant, the loopholes minor. All this tech-enabled police pr… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mullen's Blind Spots book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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22. Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: Quiet the Critical Voice in Your Head, Heal Self-Doubt, and Live the Life You Deserve

By: Stephanie M. Kriesberg

3.98

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Were you raised by a narcissist? This essential guide will show you how to stop feeling invisible, … read more

Similar categories in Stephanie M. Kriesberg's Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: Quiet the Critical Voice in Your Head, Heal Self-Doubt, and Live the Life You Deserve book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • audiobook
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23. Edenville

By: Sam Rebelein

3.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror … read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. The Rescue

By: T. Jefferson Parker

3.96

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far w… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Under the Bridge

By: Anne Bishop

3.28

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

"There are people who break open and make a new, bigger, self. But some of us are ... brittle." … read more

Similar categories in Anne Bishop's Under the Bridge book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • fiction
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26. My Name Is Iris

By: Brando Skyhorse

3.37

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more

Similar categories in Brando Skyhorse's My Name Is Iris book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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27. American Afterlife

By: Pedro Hoffmeister

3.80

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The earthquake was just the beginning. Now, the true horror arrives in this unflinching, near-futur… read more

Similar categories in Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife book and Pedro Hoffmeister's American Afterlife

  • literary fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • cults
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"There's no logic to loneliness, just nostalgia for something that never was."

-Pedro Hoffmeister, American Afterlife

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28. A Man Downstairs

By: Nicole Lundrigan

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all? From the acclaimed author … read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. In the Hour of Crows

By: Dana Elmendorf

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

30. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • cults
  • audiobook
Cover of Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher by Lee Child

31. Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher

By: Lee Child

3.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

25 must-read fiction books like American Afterlife by Pedro Hoffmeister

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Lisa Wingate

4.12

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Alex Marwood

4.15

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Chuck Wendig

4.13

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Cold People

Tom Rob Smith

3.52

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

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Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

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Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

Kelly McDaniel

4.15

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