8 Best science fiction books like Anthem by Noah Hawley

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Anthem

By: Noah Hawley

3.51

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

An epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets o…

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1. Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • 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

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4. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Tracy Flick Can't Win

By: Tom Perrotta

3.64

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more

Similar categories in Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

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7. Devil House

By: John Darnielle

3.22

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more

Similar categories in John Darnielle's Devil House book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

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8. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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9. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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10. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Anthem

By: Noah Hawley

3.51

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

An epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets o… read more

Similar categories in Noah Hawley's Anthem book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

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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 Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • 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. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more

Similar categories in Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

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16. The Family Chao

By: Lan Samantha Chang

3.35

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more

Similar categories in Lan Samantha Chang's The Family Chao book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

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17. Booth

By: Karen Joy Fowler

3.83

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Best Book of the Year Real Simple - AARP - USA Today From the Man Booker finalist and bestselli… read more

Similar categories in Karen Joy Fowler's Booth book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?"

-Karen Joy Fowler, Booth

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 Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • 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. The School for Good Mothers

By: Jessamine Chan

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781982156121 can be found here. In this taut and explosive d… read more

Similar categories in Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Lots of people are all cold and heartless. Who do you think works in a prison? Who do you think works on death row? It's a job."

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

"A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world."

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

"Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, al…"

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

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20. Mercury Pictures Presents

By: Anthony Marra

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Marra's Mercury Pictures Presents book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

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21. Mouth to Mouth

By: Antoine Wilson

3.67

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more

Similar categories in Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth book and Noah Hawley's Anthem

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."

-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"

-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

21 Best fiction books like Anthem by Noah Hawley

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Mercy Street

Jennifer Haigh

3.63

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The Ferryman

Justin Cronin

3.93

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Upgrade

Blake Crouch

3.81

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Angie Kim

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