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41) Lockdown
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is a city in lockdown. Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law has been imposed. No one is safe from the deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of victims. Health and emergency services are overwhelmed. At a building site for a temporary hospital, construction workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child. A remorseless killer has been unleashed on the city; his mission...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a far-flung Tibetan village, prayer flags flap against whitewashed houses and a majestic monastery stretches to heaven. It's Shangri-La--the earthly paradise--until a stranger staggers out of the forest and collapses into a bloody, lifeless mass. He's the first victim of a crippling epidemic, but he's no ordinary man. Olen Grave, an American intelligence officer, heads directly into the hot zone to investigate. Posing as a journalist, he joins...
43) Extinction end
Author
Series
Extinction Cycle volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about one man's mission to save the world. Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world. The remnants of the United States military have regrouped and relocated Central Command to the George Washington Carrier Strike Group. It's here, in the North Atlantic, that President Jan Ringgold and Vice President George...
Author
Series
Extinction Cycle volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Central Command is gone, the military is fractured, and the surviving members of Team Ghost, led by Master Sergeant Reed Beckham, have been pushed to the breaking point. Betrayed by the country they swore to defend and surrounded by enemies on all sides, Team Ghost has one mission left: protect Dr. Kate Lovato and Dr. Pat Ellis while they develop a weapon to defeat the Variants once and for all. But after a grisly discovery in Atlanta, Kate and Ellis...
45) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplentymost of them in someone else's body." USA Today John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's...
46) Extinction war
Author
Series
Extinction Cycle volume 7
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In Europe, Master Sergeant Joe Fitzpatrick and Team Ghost return from a mission deep into enemy territory only to find that the Variant army has grown stronger, and they are advancing toward the EUF's stronghold in Paris. Back in the United States, President Ringgold and Dr. Kate Lovato are on the run. The Safe Zone Territories continue to rally behind the ROT flag, leaving Ringgold more enemies than allies. But there are still those who will stand...
47) King Bullet
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 12
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It’s been three months since Stark stopped a death cult and a potential ghost apocalypse, and he’s at loose ends. His personal life is a mess. His professional life isn’t much better. And the world…well, the world is going to shit. L.A. is gripped by a viral epidemic that has everyone wearing masks and keeping their distance from each other. But what’s even more frightening is the Shoggot gang and their leader, King Bullet, who revels in...
48) XOM-B
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A rising talent, Robinson is well-known in the community of action/adventure fans and has received amazing quotes in the past from big name authors like James Rollins, Steve Berry, and Scott Sigler. XOM-B has a great hook that is also an amazing plot twist, and is poised to bring him to the next level. Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He lives in a worldwide utopia, but it was not always so. There...
49) Extinction edge
Author
Series
Extinction Cycle volume 2
Publisher
Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato's bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions. Her weapon was supposed to be the endgame, but it turned a small percentage of those infected with the Hemorrhage Virus into something even worse. Survivors call them Variants. Irreversible epigenetic changes have transformed them into predators unlike any the human race has ever seen. And they are evolving. With the doomsday clock ticking, the fractured...
50) Find me: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel--a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An inexplicable sickness. A small town cut off from the world. An unexpected community of survivors forges a family out of the despair, struggling against things known and unknown for survival and hope. A mysterious plague known as the Grey grips the small village of Pilam, which the world has quarantined without pity. Laying waste to Pilam's residents, the Grey saps its victims of strength, drains the color from their eyes, and kills all promise...
52) The wages of sin
Author
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, Arc Manor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With the "Wasting" (HIV) creating a mid-nineteenth-century England and London almost unrecognizable to us, Viola, extremely intelligent and growing up in a house full of medical books, can only travel to far-off places in her imagination since her actionsand movements are severely restricted by both law and custom.
''A terrifying tale about HIV spreading in the early sixteenth century by an author, Publisher Weekly calls “The Master of Alternate...
53) Phase six
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing...
54) Dark light: Dawn
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From author Jon Land and creator Fabrizio Boccardi comes Dark Light: Dawn, a heart-pounding supernatural thriller about a deadly, global epidemic and the man who holds the power to either save the world or destroy it. Since the dawn of time good and evil have challenged the free will of man. Now the time has come for one man to choose for all human kind. With an uncanny ability to survive any combat situation, Max Younger has built a heroic life for...
55) Wayward: a novel
Author
Series
Wanderers volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The sequel to the national bestseller Wanderers, the instant classic that "takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blends them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels" (NPR) Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. And they...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"For fans of J. G. Ballard and early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller and Kafkaesque parable by the author of The Hole--called 'an airtight masterpiece' by the Korean Economic Daily. Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious...
57) Nights of plague
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension...
58) Vector
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Amazon rain forest spawns a new terror that will bring the world to its knees in this new Joe Rush bio-thriller. Joe Rush is at an Amazon gold rush to study new forms of malaria when his best friend and partner, Eddie Nakamura, disappears. When learning that many of the sick miners have also vanished, Rush begins a search for Eddie that takes him into the heart of darkness. Where he must battle for his life, and where he discovers a secret that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this gripping sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls “everything you want in a thriller,” cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease, and Wynter is the only one who can save it. Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and...
60) Resistant
Author
Series
Lou Welcome novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. But an accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating Cap alive from the inside out. ... Turning to the Centers for Disease Control for help, Lou uncovers a link to...
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