9 Best horror books like Chernobyl by Michael Kerrigan

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Chernobyl

By: Michael Kerrigan

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat: two massive steam ex…

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1. Blaze

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the Flap: The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the … read more

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  • horror
"Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got."

-Stephen King, Blaze

"Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be …"

-Stephen King, Blaze

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2. Bone White

By: Ronald Malfi

3.89

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

A landscape of frozen darkness punctuated by grim, gray days. The feeling like a buzz in your tee… read more

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  • horror
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3. I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime (Homicide Hunter)

By: Joe Kenda

4.44

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Detective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of Homicide Hunter, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before rev… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. The World Without Us

By: Alan Weisman

4.09

Format: 296 pages,

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Teatro Grottesco

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.29

Format: 128 pages,

This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more

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  • horror
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6. Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

Internationally bestselling author Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories… read more

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  • horror
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7. Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

By: Andrew Leatherbarrow , Elizabeth Petrey

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Duma Key

By: Stephen King

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemant… read more

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  • horror

9. Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls #2)

By: Lisa See

4.10

Format: None pages,

In her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and… read more

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10. From a Buick 8

By: Stephen King

4.19

Format: 168 pages,

The Barnes & Noble Review At first glance, Stephen King's latest bears a familial resemblance to ,… read more

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11. The Terror

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Iliumand Olympostransforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expeditio… read more

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12. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

By: Seth Godin

4.00

Format: 279 pages,

The old saying is wrongwinners do quit, and quitters do win. Every new project (or job, or hobby, o… read more

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13. 血の轍 12 [Chi no Wadachi 12]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

少年審判、開廷…裁きの行方は!? 高台で向き合った従兄弟の”しげる”は、 かつてママに高台から突き落とされた”自分”だったーー 僕が消えることが正しいこと…そう思った瞬間、静一は”自分”を… read more

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  • horror
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14. Must Love Books

By: Shauna Robinson

3.30

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill meets Younger in a heartfelt debut following a young woman who discov… read more

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"Why had she relied on her unfulfilling job to give her the experience she needed for a fulfilling one?"

-Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

"And so she couldn't even feel proud about taking one step forward in search of happiness. Not when she had reason to fear where that step would lead her next."

-Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

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15. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

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  • horror
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16. From Below

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more

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  • horror
"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."

-Darcy Coates, From Below

"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"

-Darcy Coates, From Below

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17. Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

By: Kevin Hearne

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Al MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white moustache, an … read more

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"I subscribe to a theory that answers cannot hide from us forever if we seek them long enough."

-Kevin Hearne, Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

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18. Some Dukes Have All the Luck (Synneful Spinsters, #1)

By: Christina Britton

3.96

Format: 343 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ash Hawkins, Duke of Buckley, no more wants to marry than he wants a stick in his eye. As the owner… read more

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19. The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One

By: George R.R. Martin

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to H… read more

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20. Chernobyl

By: Michael Kerrigan

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat: two massive steam ex… read more

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  • history
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • horror
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21. Abandoned Train Stations: Rail Stations, Yards, Signalboxes and Tracks that the World Left Behind

By: David Ross

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hub… read more

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  • history
  • photography
  • nonfiction

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Junji Ito

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Junji Ito

4.23

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