Books like The Scorch Trials
12 books with a reading profile close to The Scorch Trials by James Dashner. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Maze Runner 02. Die Auserwählten - In der Brandwüste
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Thomas and the surviving Gladers escape the Maze only to find the outside world scorched by solar flares and ravaged by the Flare, a brain-eating virus.
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Shadowfires
by Dean Koontz
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Rachael Leben believes her abusive ex-husband, Eric, is dead after a violent traffic accident.
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The Fever Code
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
The Fever Code serves as the final chronological prequel to the Maze Runner series, documenting the origins of the Flare virus and the creation of WICKED.
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By the Light of the Moon
by Dean Koontz
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Dylan O'Conner, a young man, and Jilly Jarvis, a stand-up comedian, are two people who cross paths after a stranger injects them with a mysterious substance.
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Vox
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
In a near-future United States, a radical religious group called the Pure Movement seizes political control and strips women of their rights.
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The Running Man
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Set in a decaying 2025 where industrial pollution chokes the poor, the story follows Ben Richards, a desperate man who enters a lethal reality television program to fund medical care for his dying daughter.
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The Terminal Man
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Harry Benson suffers from psychomotor epilepsy, a condition that triggers violent, uncontrollable seizures.
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Dry
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
In a sudden environmental collapse known as the Tap-Out, Southern California’s water supply is terminated, leaving millions in a lethal drought.
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Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Logan Ramsay is a genetic enforcement agent working in a future where gene editing is strictly illegal following a global famine caused by a failed experiment.
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Micro
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
In this technothriller, seven graduate students travel to Hawaii for jobs at Vin Drake’s cutting-edge biotech firm, Nanigen.
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Reamde
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Richard Forthrast, an entrepreneur and former draft dodger, builds a fortune through a massive multiplayer online role-playing game called T’Rain.
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