26 must-read adult books like The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

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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…

"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

"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

If you liked the adult plot in The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • 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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2. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • 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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3. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • 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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4. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

Similar categories in Connie Willis's The Road to Roswell book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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6. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • 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

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9. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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10. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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11. The Cartographers

By: Peng Shepherd

3.63

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her f… read more

Similar categories in Peng Shepherd's The Cartographers book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Grief can raze a face far worse than ten times as many years. (Romi's chapter, Libby @p735/921)."

-Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

Cover of The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

12. 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

Similar categories in Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • time travel
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"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

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13. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Future book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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14. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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15. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • 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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17. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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18. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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19. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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20. Mal Goes to War: A Novel

By: Edward Ashton

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mal Goes to War: A Novel book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

3.71

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."

-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

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22. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

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24. A Quantum Love Story

By: Mike Chen

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's A Quantum Love Story book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • time travel
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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25. The Quiet Room (Rabbits, #2)

By: Terry Miles

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The lore and legends around the underground game known as Rabbits gain new dimensions in this twist… read more

Similar categories in Terry Miles's The Quiet Room (Rabbits, #2) book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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26. 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

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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27. The Broken Room

By: Peter Clines

3.89

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nation… read more

Similar categories in Peter Clines's The Broken Room book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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28. 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 Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • 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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29. Light Years From Home

By: Mike Chen

3.55

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. Evie Shao and her sister, K… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's Light Years From Home book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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30. Tell Me an Ending

By: Jo Harkin

3.64

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

What if you didn't have to live with your worst memories? Across the world, thousands of people … read more

Similar categories in Jo Harkin's Tell Me an Ending book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Where does the human regret live? Police stations, hospitals. Courtrooms. Hotel bedrooms- bedrooms in general. They should advertise on pillowcases."

-Jo Harkin, Tell Me an Ending

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31. Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)

By: Edward Ashton

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and m… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) book and Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

30 must-read fiction books like The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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John Scalzi

3.99

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Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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The Road to Roswell

Connie Willis

3.74

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31 must-read fiction books like The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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