25 best-selling science fiction books like Child Zero by Chris Holm

Child Zero

By: Chris Holm

3.63

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

From molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of THE KILLING KIND comes a fact-based…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Child Zero by Chris Holm , here is a list of 25 books like this:

1. Chrysalis (Jeremy Logan, #6)

By: Lincoln Child

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unex… read more

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. 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

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"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

5. The Paradox Hotel

By: Rob Hart

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. Jan… read more

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"The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help."
-Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

6. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."
-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"
-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"
-Douglas Preston, Extinction

7. Black Tide

By: K.C. Jones

3.59

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day a… read more

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"We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction."
-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?"
-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me."
-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's…"
-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

8. The Island

By: Adrian McKinty

3.77

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't k… read more

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"the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist."
-Adrian McKinty, The Island

9. 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

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"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

10. Perfect Shot (Special Agent Alexandra Martel, #1)

By: Steve Urszenyi

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the battlefield behind her. Charming and disarmi… read more

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11. The Gatekeeper (Dez Limerick, #1)

By: James Byrne

4.11

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years.… read more

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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

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13. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

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14. Cold Storage

By: David Koepp

3.70

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic… read more

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"The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator."
-David Koepp, Cold Storage

15. Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

By: Chuck Wendig

4.21

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to … read more

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16. The Ascent

By: Adam Plantinga

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a high security prison fails, a down-on-his luck cop and the governor’s daughter are going to … read more

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17. Providence

By: Max Barry

3.86

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, inventive, and thought-provoking new novel from the ingenious author of Jennifer Govern… read more

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18. Wild Massive

By: Scotto Moore

3.55

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted sa… read more

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19. The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley

4.23

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more

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"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."
-Stephen Markley, The Deluge

20. The Oxygen Farmer

By: Colin Holmes

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon. After 35 years of living on the Moon, cr… read more

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21. Walk the Vanished Earth

By: Erin Swan

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotiona… read more

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22. The Last Storm

By: Tim Lebbon

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping road trip through post-apocalyptic America from Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestseller an… read more

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23. End of the World House

By: Adrienne Celt

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, worki… read more

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"You never know why not, before it happens. That’s what Bertie realized. Time passes. Slow, then fast. Bit by bit, and then it’s gone."
-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"Both of them dated a lot, though unsuccessfully, choosing the solace of easy sex over the ontological work of rearranging their lives for relationships."
-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"Why had she ever wanted to come here? To see art. To see someone else’s inspiration, but in its worst, its least natural form. The point being not that it was beautiful, but that it was chosen."
-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"She and Kate had wanted to see the things everyone else saw, too, but with their own eyes. That was how art, how anything, became immortal. Becoming a still point in the universe, around which endles…"
-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House

24. Primitives

By: Erich Krauss

3.88

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Erich Krauss comes Primitives, the story of two unlikely her… read more

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25. The Sleepless

By: Victor Manibo

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the … read more

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26. The Revivalists

By: Christopher M. Hood

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"The Revivalists is a thrilling, terrifying, surprising, and tender debut, written in such exquisi… read more

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27. Child Zero

By: Chris Holm

3.63

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

From molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of THE KILLING KIND comes a fact-based… read more

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28. The Sky Vault (The Comet Cycle #3)

By: Benjamin Percy

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The third book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault, follows an investiga… read more

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29. The Awoken

By: Katelyn Monroe Howes

3.61

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic, speculative debut about a woman who undergoes cryogenic preservation at the time of he… read more

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30. Cry Pilot (Cry Pilot, #1)

By: Joel Dane

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A devastated Earth. Rogue bio-weapons. And a recruit with secrets. In this explosive new military s… read more

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31. Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

4.33