29 Books like Shift

BEYOND EXTINCTION

by John Keeble • 2018

A geneticist's refuge becomes a lab; his lover, a numan; his DNA, a museum of extinction.

3.83

138

🧬 Genetic Dystopia 🧬 Species Replacement 🧠 Genetic Memory

BEYOND EXTINCTION 94%

A geneticist's refuge becomes a lab; his lover, a numan; his DNA, a museum of extinction.

by John Keeble 2018

3.83

138 ratings

🧬 Genetic Dystopia 🧬 Species Replacement 🧠 Genetic Memory

Pines

by Blake Crouch • 2012

A Secret Service agent wakes with no memory in a perfect town where nobody ever leaves.

3.92

189k+

🏚️ Small Town Horror 🔍 Amnesiac Investigator 👁️ Dystopian Control

Pines 93%

A Secret Service agent wakes with no memory in a perfect town where nobody ever leaves.

by Blake Crouch 2012

3.92

189k+ ratings

🏚️ Small Town Horror 🔍 Amnesiac Investigator 👁️ Dystopian Control

The Last Murder at the End of the World

by Stuart Turton • 2024

An elder's murder on the last island; her heartbeat was the only barrier against the fog.

3.67

66k+

🚪 Locked Room Murder 🔬 Sci-Fi Mystery 🤖 Engineered Beings

The Last Murder at the End of the World Summary

The Last Murder at the End of the World 93%

An elder's murder on the last island; her heartbeat was the only barrier against the fog.

by Stuart Turton 2024

3.67

66k+ ratings

🚪 Locked Room Murder 🔬 Sci-Fi Mystery 🤖 Engineered Beings

The Tower

by Colin Wilson • 1987

Giant telepathic spiders rule the earth, and one boy's mind holds the power they cannot break.

4.02

509

🧠 Psychic Dystopia 🕷️ Giant Spiders 🏭 Engineered Society

The Tower 92%

Giant telepathic spiders rule the earth, and one boy's mind holds the power they cannot break.

by Colin Wilson 1987

4.02

509 ratings

🧠 Psychic Dystopia 🕷️ Giant Spiders 🏭 Engineered Society

The Girl Who Dared to Think

by Bella Forrest • 2017

A Squire marked for deletion swallows a forbidden pill, joining a fugitive to trick the Tower's AI.

4.23

9k+

🏷️ Ranking Dystopia ❤️ Enemies To Lovers 👪 Found Family

The Girl Who Dared to Think 92%

A Squire marked for deletion swallows a forbidden pill, joining a fugitive to trick the Tower's AI.

by Bella Forrest 2017

4.23

9k+ ratings

🏷️ Ranking Dystopia ❤️ Enemies To Lovers 👪 Found Family

Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson • 2015

The moon shatters. Earth will burn. Seven women in orbit carry the last hope for humanity.

4.00

126k+

🚀 Hard Science Fiction 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🛰️ Survival In Space

Seveneves 92%

The moon shatters. Earth will burn. Seven women in orbit carry the last hope for humanity.

by Neal Stephenson 2015

4.00

126k+ ratings

🚀 Hard Science Fiction 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🛰️ Survival In Space

Infinity Lost

by S. Harrison • 2015

A girl discovers her memories are fake: she's the deadliest weapon her father ever built.

3.64

4k+

🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🧠 Memory Manipulation 🎭 Split Personality

Infinity Lost 92%

A girl discovers her memories are fake: she's the deadliest weapon her father ever built.

by S. Harrison 2015

3.64

4k+ ratings

🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🧠 Memory Manipulation 🎭 Split Personality

One Second After

by William R. Forstchen • 2009

An EMP erases civilization. A widowed professor must keep his daughters alive as his town starves.

3.98

77k+

🏕️ Survivalist Fiction ⚡ Grid Collapse 🫡 Reluctant Leader

One Second After 92%

An EMP erases civilization. A widowed professor must keep his daughters alive as his town starves.

by William R. Forstchen 2009

3.98

77k+ ratings

🏕️ Survivalist Fiction ⚡ Grid Collapse 🫡 Reluctant Leader

Metro 2033

by Dmitry Glukhovsky • 2013

To stop the creatures menacing his home, a young man journeys through the haunted Moscow metro.

4.03

78k+

🌃 Russian Dystopia ☢️ Nuclear Winter 🚇 Underground City

Metro 2033 92%

To stop the creatures menacing his home, a young man journeys through the haunted Moscow metro.

by Dmitry Glukhovsky 2013

4.03

78k+ ratings

🌃 Russian Dystopia ☢️ Nuclear Winter 🚇 Underground City

LIFEL1K3

by Jay Kristoff • 2018

A scavenger fights robots for medicine. When an android awakens, her hidden past comes hunting.

3.94

13k+

🤖 Sentient Androids 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Implanted Memories

LIFEL1K3 92%

A scavenger fights robots for medicine. When an android awakens, her hidden past comes hunting.

by Jay Kristoff 2018

3.94

13k+ ratings

🤖 Sentient Androids 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Implanted Memories

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel • 2014

A pandemic erases the world; a traveling Shakespeare troupe becomes what remains of human culture.

4.07

623k+

🖋️ Literary Dystopia 🌫️ Quiet Apocalypse 🕸️ Interconnected Lives

Station Eleven 92%

A pandemic erases the world; a traveling Shakespeare troupe becomes what remains of human culture.

by Emily St. John Mandel 2014

4.07

623k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Dystopia 🌫️ Quiet Apocalypse 🕸️ Interconnected Lives

The Ferryman

by Justin Cronin • 2023

A ferryman of rebirth discovers paradise is a simulation. His dying father left the exit code.

3.92

42k+

🖥️ Simulated Reality 🏙️ Utopian Dystopia ⚔️ Rebellion Against System

The Ferryman 92%

A ferryman of rebirth discovers paradise is a simulation. His dying father left the exit code.

by Justin Cronin 2023

3.92

42k+ ratings

🖥️ Simulated Reality 🏙️ Utopian Dystopia ⚔️ Rebellion Against System

The Kill Order

by James Dashner • 2012

A mind-shredding virus sweeps the wasteland. One immune child is the cure; her protectors go mad.

3.71

263k+

🦠 Viral Outbreak 😱 Survival Horror 👧 Immune Child

The Kill Order 92%

A mind-shredding virus sweeps the wasteland. One immune child is the cure; her protectors go mad.

by James Dashner 2012

3.71

263k+ ratings

🦠 Viral Outbreak 😱 Survival Horror 👧 Immune Child

Commune

by Joshua Gayou • 2017

After a plague, a lone survivor leads three strangers across a dead America to Wyoming.

4.18

3k+

🦠 Plague Apocalypse 🌍 Grounded Apocalypse 🫂 Found Family

Commune 92%

After a plague, a lone survivor leads three strangers across a dead America to Wyoming.

by Joshua Gayou 2017

4.18

3k+ ratings

🦠 Plague Apocalypse 🌍 Grounded Apocalypse 🫂 Found Family

Ghosts

by Nicholas Sansbury Smith • 2017

Aboard humanity's last airship, survival means dropping into a monster-filled wasteland to scavenge.

4.25

9k+

🪂 Drop Team Survival 🏜️ Wasteland Survival ✈️ Airship Society

Ghosts 92%

Aboard humanity's last airship, survival means dropping into a monster-filled wasteland to scavenge.

by Nicholas Sansbury Smith 2017

4.25

9k+ ratings

🪂 Drop Team Survival 🏜️ Wasteland Survival ✈️ Airship Society

Lockstep

by Karl Schroeder • 2014

After millennia in cryosleep, a boy wakes to find his siblings rule a hibernating galactic empire.

3.75

2k+

🧊 Cryosleep Society 😐 Reluctant Messiah 👑 Family Dynasty In Space

Lockstep 92%

After millennia in cryosleep, a boy wakes to find his siblings rule a hibernating galactic empire.

by Karl Schroeder 2014

3.75

2k+ ratings

🧊 Cryosleep Society 😐 Reluctant Messiah 👑 Family Dynasty In Space

Severance

by Ling Ma • 2018

The fever traps victims in habit loops. Candace Chen, office worker, was already there.

3.88

134k+

🏢 Office Apocalypse 🧧 Immigrant Daughter 🌫️ Quiet Apocalypse

Severance 91%

The fever traps victims in habit loops. Candace Chen, office worker, was already there.

by Ling Ma 2018

3.88

134k+ ratings

🏢 Office Apocalypse 🧧 Immigrant Daughter 🌫️ Quiet Apocalypse

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler • 1993

An empathic teen invents a faith of change and leads a band through a scorched California.

4.19

274k+

🌍 Afrofuturism 🌡️ Climate Dystopia 🫂 Found Family

Parable of the Sower 91%

An empathic teen invents a faith of change and leads a band through a scorched California.

by Octavia E. Butler 1993

4.19

274k+ ratings

🌍 Afrofuturism 🌡️ Climate Dystopia 🫂 Found Family

The 100

by Kass Morgan • 2013

One hundred teenage prisoners crash-land on a ravaged Earth and find they are not alone.

3.58

87k+

🔒 Juvenile Delinquents 🌲 Crash-Land Survival 💕 Survival Romance

The 100 91%

One hundred teenage prisoners crash-land on a ravaged Earth and find they are not alone.

by Kass Morgan 2013

3.58

87k+ ratings

🔒 Juvenile Delinquents 🌲 Crash-Land Survival 💕 Survival Romance

Novas

by Lou Vane • 2022

After the virus, a cult captures Jess to repopulate the world with only its chosen few.

4.31

2k+

🦠 Post Viral World 🏚️ Bunker Survival ⛓️ Cult Compound

Novas 91%

After the virus, a cult captures Jess to repopulate the world with only its chosen few.

by Lou Vane 2022

4.31

2k+ ratings

🦠 Post Viral World 🏚️ Bunker Survival ⛓️ Cult Compound

The Slynx

by Tatyana Tolstaya • 2007

In frozen, mutated Russia, a scribe copies a tyrant's decrees as a forest beast steals minds.

3.81

6k+

📚 Forbidden Books 🧠 Cultural Amnesia 😈 Dark Absurdist Humor

The Slynx 91%

In frozen, mutated Russia, a scribe copies a tyrant's decrees as a forest beast steals minds.

by Tatyana Tolstaya 2007

3.81

6k+ ratings

📚 Forbidden Books 🧠 Cultural Amnesia 😈 Dark Absurdist Humor

As Our World Ends

by Jack Hunt • 2020

A fractured family navigates a lawless America after a cyberattack, racing to rescue their daughter.

4.18

1k+

🖥️ Grid-Down Survival 💔 Broken Family Bonds 👥 Ragtag Survivors

As Our World Ends 91%

A fractured family navigates a lawless America after a cyberattack, racing to rescue their daughter.

by Jack Hunt 2020

4.18

1k+ ratings

🖥️ Grid-Down Survival 💔 Broken Family Bonds 👥 Ragtag Survivors

The Accidental Time Machine

by Joe Haldeman • 2007

A failed physicist's broken calibrator is a one-way time machine, each jump exponentially longer.

3.73

11k+

⏩ One-Way Time Travel ⛪ Theocratic Dystopia 🌅 Post-Scarcity Society

The Accidental Time Machine 91%

A failed physicist's broken calibrator is a one-way time machine, each jump exponentially longer.

by Joe Haldeman 2007

3.73

11k+ ratings

⏩ One-Way Time Travel ⛪ Theocratic Dystopia 🌅 Post-Scarcity Society

Shadow Fall

by Audrey Grey • 2016

A pit girl with a new face fights for the last seat beside her former hunter.

3.87

2k+

🔥 Enemies To Lovers ⚔️ Deadly Competition 🏛️ Caste Society

Shadow Fall 91%

A pit girl with a new face fights for the last seat beside her former hunter.

by Audrey Grey 2016

3.87

2k+ ratings

🔥 Enemies To Lovers ⚔️ Deadly Competition 🏛️ Caste Society

Recursion

by Blake Crouch • 2019

A detective and a neuroscientist race to stop a memory-altering technology from unraveling reality.

4.16

328k+

🔬 Technothriller 🧠 Memory Manipulation 🌀 Reality Breakdown

Recursion 91%

A detective and a neuroscientist race to stop a memory-altering technology from unraveling reality.

by Blake Crouch 2019

4.16

328k+ ratings

🔬 Technothriller 🧠 Memory Manipulation 🌀 Reality Breakdown

The Peripheral

by William Gibson • 2014

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

3.89

34k+

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

The Peripheral 91%

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

by William Gibson 2014

3.89

34k+ ratings

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood • 2003

A plague ends the world, and one man must guard the flawless new humans his friend made.

4.00

290k+

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Mad Scientist 🫀 Engineered Humans

Oryx and Crake 91%

A plague ends the world, and one man must guard the flawless new humans his friend made.

by Margaret Atwood 2003

4.00

290k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Mad Scientist 🫀 Engineered Humans

Starters

by Lissa Price • 2012

A teen rents out her body. The woman inside it has a gun and a senator's address.

3.88

46k+

🏦 Dystopian Body Rental 🧠 Consciousness Sharing 🎯 Political Assassination

Starters 91%

A teen rents out her body. The woman inside it has a gun and a senator's address.

by Lissa Price 2012

3.88

46k+ ratings

🏦 Dystopian Body Rental 🧠 Consciousness Sharing 🎯 Political Assassination

The Inverted World

by Christopher Priest • 1974

A city rolls north to outrun a twisted world. An apprentice bound by secrecy doubts reality.

3.95

11k+

📖 New Wave Science Fiction 👁️ Unreliable Reality 🔍 Secret Societies

The Inverted World 91%

A city rolls north to outrun a twisted world. An apprentice bound by secrecy doubts reality.

by Christopher Priest 1974

3.95

11k+ ratings

📖 New Wave Science Fiction 👁️ Unreliable Reality 🔍 Secret Societies

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