21 Best fiction books like Upgrade by Blake Crouch

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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…

"I had extraordinary dreams, and an ordinary mind."

-Blake Crouch, Upgrade

"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

"I could not choose my desires, only whether to pursue them."

-Blake Crouch, Upgrade

If you liked the fiction plot in Upgrade by Blake Crouch , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Artemis

By: Andy Weir

3.69

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon… read more

Similar categories in Andy Weir's Artemis book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Goddamn, it’s annoying to commit crimes in a small town."

-Andy Weir, Artemis

"And like all good plans, it required a crazy Ukrainian guy."

-Andy Weir, Artemis

"The moon is a nice place to pass out. You hit the ground very gently."

-Andy Weir, Artemis

"Hartnell's was for drinking. And you could get any drink you wanted, as long as it was beer."

-Andy Weir, Artemis

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2. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

By: Martha Wells

4.15

Format: 144 pages, ebook

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

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3. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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4. The Kaiju Preservation Society

By: John Scalzi

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I lift things."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"So we’re the monster police, too?"

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

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5. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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6. 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

Similar categories in Justin Cronin's The Ferryman book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Upgrade by Blake Crouch

7. 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

Similar categories in Blake Crouch's Upgrade book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • mystery thriller
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

8. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.15

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Friendship,"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"How I will miss the horses."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"You try again. You fail better."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"There are no ghosts, but up here"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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9. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Turton's The Last Murder at the End of the World book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • mystery thriller
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. Fairy Tale

By: Stephen King

4.11

Format: 599 pages, Hardcover

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding … read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Fairy Tale book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sleep...it's the only escape we have."

-Stephen King, Fairy Tale

"I didn't exactly hate my father...I felt contempt for him."

-Stephen King, Fairy Tale

"...following my father's dictum: expect nothing but never lose hope."

-Stephen King, Fairy Tale

"He might be crafty, but that wasn't necessarily the same thing as being smart."

-Stephen King, Fairy Tale

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11. Killers of a Certain Age

By: Deanna Raybourn

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their … read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast? A bowl of Honey Bunches of Bitch?"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"He was dressed like a tourist, his T-shirt tucked into belted jeans like a sociopath."

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the Pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep …"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep …"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

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12. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

By: Edward Ashton

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"

-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

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13. Sea of Tranquility

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.07

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more

Similar categories in Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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14. Project Hail Mary

By: Andy Weir

4.51

Format: 476 pages, Hardcover

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and… read more

Similar categories in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"No. You no can die. You are friend."

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

"Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?"

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

"He puts his claw against the divider. “Fist my bump."

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

"Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?"

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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15. The Measure

By: Nikki Erlick

3.99

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour … read more

Similar categories in Nikki Erlick's The Measure book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • 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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17. Lost in Time

By: A.G. Riddle

4.20

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Control the past.Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he … read more

Similar categories in A.G. Riddle's Lost in Time book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • mystery thriller
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Our future is written in the past, and it's the adventure of a lifetime."

-A.G. Riddle, Lost in Time

Cover of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

18. 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 Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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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19. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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20. Sign Here

By: Claudia Lux

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Lux's Sign Here book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"To breathe is miraculous."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Does it count as staying if leaving is always on the mind? How much lying does a marriage need to survive?"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"It was the greatest irony of her life: how much she hated her body and how much she lived for the attention it garnered."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Love is one of these things humans experience, twist to fit their cage of mortality, and then claim to have invented. I'm not blaming you, far from it. Love was made to be coveted, and humans are not…"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

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21. Daisy Darker

By: Alice Feeney

3.77

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder. … read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Daisy Darker book and Blake Crouch's Upgrade

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Don’t spend all of your ambition on other people’s dreams."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

"Sometimes people don't know they're in love until they're not."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

"A mother's least favourite child always knows that's what they are."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

"People are not the same but different, they are different but the same."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

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Amy Tintera

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