18 Top mystery thriller books like Extinction by Douglas Preston

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Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

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

"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"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

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Extinction by Douglas Preston , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24) by C.J. Box

1. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Eruption by Michael Crichton

2. Eruption

By: Michael Crichton

3.91

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A history-making once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Eruption book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
Cover of Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27) by Anne Hillerman

3. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more

Similar categories in Anne Hillerman's Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of You Like It Darker by Stephen        King

4. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12) by Harlan Coben

5. Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

By: Harlan Coben

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

9 hours, 41 minutes Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III​ reunite to find a dead man co… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Coben's Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3) by John Sandford

6. Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

By: John Sandford

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest p… read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. A Calamity of Souls

By: David Baldacci

4.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo … read more

Similar categories in David Baldacci's A Calamity of Souls book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. The Heist (Isaac Bell #14)

By: Clive Cussler

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in an all-new adventure in the #1 New Y… read more

Similar categories in Clive Cussler's The Heist (Isaac Bell #14) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's Extinction book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • science fiction
"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

Cover of Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3) by John Grisham

10. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21) by John Connolly

11. The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

By: John Connolly

4.44

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, the beloved and… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You didn’t have to look very hard to be disappointed by human beings. We were not all bad, just enough of us, although the rest had to work very hard to make up for that minority."

-John Connolly, The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

12. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Gathering by C.J. Tudor

13. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Gathering book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone, #18) by Steve Berry

14. The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone, #18)

By: Steve Berry

4.28

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

From celebrated  New York Times  bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adve… read more

Similar categories in Steve Berry's The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone, #18) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Red Star Falling (Luke Daniels, #2) by Steve Berry

15. Red Star Falling (Luke Daniels, #2)

By: Steve Berry

4.24

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From  New York Times  bestselling authors, Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood, comes an action-packed … read more

Similar categories in Steve Berry's Red Star Falling (Luke Daniels, #2) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Point Nemo

By: Jeremy Robinson

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. At … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Robinson's Point Nemo book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Night Shift (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #13) by Robin Cook

17. Night Shift (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #13)

By: Robin Cook

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

" In this exhilarating medical mystery-thriller by Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lu… read more

Similar categories in Robin Cook's Night Shift (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #13) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24) by Daniel Silva

18. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)

By: Daniel Silva

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Silva's A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman

19. Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internation… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Newman's Worst Case Scenario book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18) by James Rollins

20. Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18)

By: James Rollins

4.32

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times master of international thrillers comes the story of a global hunt acros… read more

Similar categories in James Rollins's Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
Cover of The Lost Coast (Clay Edison, #5) by Jonathan Kellerman

21. The Lost Coast (Clay Edison, #5)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The gripping new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, pa… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Kellerman's The Lost Coast (Clay Edison, #5) book and Douglas Preston's Extinction

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

21 must-read fiction books like Extinction by Douglas Preston

Transform Your Habits

Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)

Anne Hillerman

4.29

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

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21 best-selling fiction books like Red Star Falling (Luke Daniels, #2) by Steve Berry

Transform Your Habits

Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

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The Heist (Isaac Bell #14)

Clive Cussler

4.44

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Extinction

Douglas Preston

4.14

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Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

John Grisham

4.26

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