🍄 Nuclear Fallout

Stories set in the poisoned aftermath of atomic catastrophe, where radiation reshapes landscapes, bodies, and social order. Readers come for the harrowing realism of survival in a contaminated world.

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 89%

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

Nuclear War

by Annie Jacobsen • 2024

North Korea fires a missile. Civilization ends in 72 minutes. Exactly how, protocol by protocol.

4.36

53k+

🚀 Nuclear Deterrence 📋 Nuclear Policy 🏃 Arms Race

Nuclear War 89%

North Korea fires a missile. Civilization ends in 72 minutes. Exactly how, protocol by protocol.

by Annie Jacobsen 2024

4.36

53k+ ratings

🚀 Nuclear Deterrence 📋 Nuclear Policy 🏃 Arms Race

On the Beach

by Nevil Shute • 1957

The last humans garden, race Ferraris, and fall in love as a radioactive cloud approaches.

3.98

50k+

🌫️ Quiet Extinction 👥 Found Family In Crisis 🏡 Domestic Dystopia

On the Beach 89%

The last humans garden, race Ferraris, and fall in love as a radioactive cloud approaches.

by Nevil Shute 1957

3.98

50k+ ratings

🌫️ Quiet Extinction 👥 Found Family In Crisis 🏡 Domestic Dystopia

Die Wolke

by Gudrun Pausewang • 1987

A nuclear cloud is spreading. With her little brother behind her, a girl pedals into the chaos.

3.67

5k+

🏭 Nuclear Disaster 👧 Sibling Protection 💔 Harrowing Realism

Die Wolke 89%

A nuclear cloud is spreading. With her little brother behind her, a girl pedals into the chaos.

by Gudrun Pausewang 1987

3.67

5k+ ratings

🏭 Nuclear Disaster 👧 Sibling Protection 💔 Harrowing Realism

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 89%

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

Going Nuclear

by Tim Gregory • 2025

Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy on Earth. Only irrational fear stands in its way.

4.47

309

🏭 Nuclear Energy 🏛️ Energy Policy 🌍 Climate Solutions

Going Nuclear 88%

Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy on Earth. Only irrational fear stands in its way.

by Tim Gregory 2025

4.47

309 ratings

🏭 Nuclear Energy 🏛️ Energy Policy 🌍 Climate Solutions

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 88%

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

TRUEL1F3

by Jay Kristoff • 2020

A lightning-wielding orphan is hunted by the corporation cloning her into weapons of war.

4.03

3k+

🫂 Found Family 🤖 Android Personhood 🏢 Corporate Dystopia

TRUEL1F3 88%

A lightning-wielding orphan is hunted by the corporation cloning her into weapons of war.

by Jay Kristoff 2020

4.03

3k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 🤖 Android Personhood 🏢 Corporate Dystopia

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 87%

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

Hiroshima

by John Hersey • 1946

Six people. One flash. The morning Hiroshima vanished, and the lives that somehow continued.

4.05

91k+

☢️ Atomic Bomb 🎙️ War Journalism ✍️ Narrative Journalism

Hiroshima 87%

Six people. One flash. The morning Hiroshima vanished, and the lives that somehow continued.

by John Hersey 1946

4.05

91k+ ratings

☢️ Atomic Bomb 🎙️ War Journalism ✍️ Narrative Journalism

Dust

by Hugh Howey • 2013

Every exile poisons the world further; survivors must cross dead land to reach the only green.

4.23

141k+

🏚️ Post-Apocalyptic Bunker 🕵️ Global Conspiracy ✊ Dystopian Rebellion

Dust 87%

Every exile poisons the world further; survivors must cross dead land to reach the only green.

by Hugh Howey 2013

4.23

141k+ ratings

🏚️ Post-Apocalyptic Bunker 🕵️ Global Conspiracy ✊ Dystopian Rebellion

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 87%

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 • 2018

A mountain commune is occupied. To reclaim it, survivors must risk becoming monsters themselves.

4.32

1k+

🏚️ Post-Apocalyptic Community ⚖️ Survivor Politics 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Commune 87%

A mountain commune is occupied. To reclaim it, survivors must risk becoming monsters themselves.

by Joshua Gayou 2018

4.32

1k+ ratings

🏚️ Post-Apocalyptic Community ⚖️ Survivor Politics 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Command and Control

by Eric Schlosser • 2013

One dropped socket in an Arkansas missile silo exposes seventy years of nuclear near-disasters.

4.27

15k+

🧪 Nuclear History 🥶 Cold War Era 💥 Technological Disaster

Command and Control 87%

One dropped socket in an Arkansas missile silo exposes seventy years of nuclear near-disasters.

by Eric Schlosser 2013

4.27

15k+ ratings

🧪 Nuclear History 🥶 Cold War Era 💥 Technological Disaster

Beneath

by Ariel Sullivan • 2026

An immune medic in a nuclear bunker joins a surface squad where caring means exile.

4.13

18k+

🖤 Dystopian Romance 🫂 Found Family 🏚️ Bunker Society

Beneath 87%

An immune medic in a nuclear bunker joins a surface squad where caring means exile.

by Ariel Sullivan 2026

4.13

18k+ ratings

🖤 Dystopian Romance 🫂 Found Family 🏚️ Bunker Society

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes • 1986

Physics made the bomb inevitable long before any general asked for it.

4.40

25k+

🔬 History Of Science ⚛️ Nuclear Physics ☢️ Atomic Age

The Making of the Atomic Bomb 87%

Physics made the bomb inevitable long before any general asked for it.

by Richard Rhodes 1986

4.40

25k+ ratings

🔬 History Of Science ⚛️ Nuclear Physics ☢️ Atomic Age

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 87%

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

Cell

by Stephen King • 2006

A signal drives cell phone users insane; one father crosses the burning world to save his son.

3.65

238k+

🧟 Survival Horror 🚗 Apocalyptic Road Trip 💻 Techno-Horror

Cell 87%

A signal drives cell phone users insane; one father crosses the burning world to save his son.

by Stephen King 2006

3.65

238k+ ratings

🧟 Survival Horror 🚗 Apocalyptic Road Trip 💻 Techno-Horror

Good Morning, Midnight

by Lily Brooks-Dalton • 2016

An Arctic astronomer and a deep-space crew both reach for a voice in the silence.

3.90

24k+

🖤 Literary Apocalypse ❄️ Arctic Isolation 🚀 Deep Space

Good Morning, Midnight 87%

An Arctic astronomer and a deep-space crew both reach for a voice in the silence.

by Lily Brooks-Dalton 2016

3.90

24k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Apocalypse ❄️ Arctic Isolation 🚀 Deep Space

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy • 2006

A dying father pushes his son through an ashen wasteland, hunted by cannibals, driven by love.

4.00

1.1M+

🏚️ Ashen Wasteland 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 💀 Bleak Survival Horror

The Road 87%

A dying father pushes his son through an ashen wasteland, hunted by cannibals, driven by love.

by Cormac McCarthy 2006

4.00

1.1M+ ratings

🏚️ Ashen Wasteland 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 💀 Bleak Survival Horror

Monument 14

by Emmy Laybourne • 2012

Trapped in a superstore by a freak hailstorm, fourteen kids discover the air outside is lethal.

3.90

25k+

🌀 Disaster Survival 👦 Kids Without Adults 🫂 Found Family

Monument 14 87%

Trapped in a superstore by a freak hailstorm, fourteen kids discover the air outside is lethal.

by Emmy Laybourne 2012

3.90

25k+ ratings

🌀 Disaster Survival 👦 Kids Without Adults 🫂 Found Family

The Waste Lands

by Stephen King • 1991

A gunslinger's band must out-riddle a psychotic monorail to cross the waste lands.

4.25

250k+

🌀 Multiverse Journey 💛 Found Family 🤖 Sentient Machine

The Waste Lands 87%

A gunslinger's band must out-riddle a psychotic monorail to cross the waste lands.

by Stephen King 1991

4.25

250k+ ratings

🌀 Multiverse Journey 💛 Found Family 🤖 Sentient Machine

The Sum of All Fears

by Tom Clancy • 1991

Terrorists detonate a lost nuke in Denver, aiming to ignite a war between the superpowers.

4.08

67k+

⚙️ Techno-Thriller ☢️ Nuclear Terrorism 🎭 False Flag Attack

The Sum of All Fears 87%

Terrorists detonate a lost nuke in Denver, aiming to ignite a war between the superpowers.

by Tom Clancy 1991

4.08

67k+ ratings

⚙️ Techno-Thriller ☢️ Nuclear Terrorism 🎭 False Flag Attack

Life As We Knew It

by Susan Beth Pfeffer • 2006

An asteroid strikes the moon, plunging the world into volcanic winter, and one family must survive.

3.89

134k+

☄️ Asteroid Apocalypse 📔 Diary Format 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Survival Unit

Life As We Knew It 87%

An asteroid strikes the moon, plunging the world into volcanic winter, and one family must survive.

by Susan Beth Pfeffer 2006

3.89

134k+ ratings

☄️ Asteroid Apocalypse 📔 Diary Format 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Survival Unit

The Gunslinger

by Stephen King • 1982

A gunslinger tracks a dark sorcerer through a dead world toward the tower binding all creation.

3.91

669k+

🤠 Weird Western 🏜️ Desert Wasteland 🎯 Obsessive Quest

The Gunslinger 87%

A gunslinger tracks a dark sorcerer through a dead world toward the tower binding all creation.

by Stephen King 1982

3.91

669k+ ratings

🤠 Weird Western 🏜️ Desert Wasteland 🎯 Obsessive Quest

Shift

by Hugh Howey • 2013

An architect wakes from frozen sleep to learn his shelters were built to cull, not save.

4.13

157k+

💣 Engineered Apocalypse 🏚️ Underground Bunker 🧠 Memory Erasure

Shift 87%

An architect wakes from frozen sleep to learn his shelters were built to cull, not save.

by Hugh Howey 2013

4.13

157k+ ratings

💣 Engineered Apocalypse 🏚️ Underground Bunker 🧠 Memory Erasure

by Mainak Dhar • 2016

An EMP kills Mumbai's grid. A VP must turn his apartment building into an army.

4.06

1k+

🔌 EMP Apocalypse 🎖️ Reluctant Leader 🏘️ Community Under Siege

03 87%

An EMP kills Mumbai's grid. A VP must turn his apartment building into an army.

by Mainak Dhar 2016

4.06

1k+ ratings

🔌 EMP Apocalypse 🎖️ Reluctant Leader 🏘️ Community Under Siege

Sick Bastards

by Matt Shaw • 2014

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

3.54

4k+

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror

Sick Bastards 87%

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

by Matt Shaw 2014

3.54

4k+ ratings

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror

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 86%

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

The Passage

by Justin Cronin • 2010

A government experiment unleashes a vampiric plague, and a child may be the world's only hope.

4.05

224k+

🧛 Vampire Apocalypse 🏘️ Walled Colony 🛡️ Reluctant Protector

The Passage 86%

A government experiment unleashes a vampiric plague, and a child may be the world's only hope.

by Justin Cronin 2010

4.05

224k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Apocalypse 🏘️ Walled Colony 🛡️ Reluctant Protector

Day Death

by Rebecca Quinn • 2025

Forbidden desire at a kink club turns into a fight for survival when nuclear war begins.

4.18

2k+

💔 Post-Apocalyptic Romance 🎖️ Military Romance 🖤 Dark Erotica

Day Death 86%

Forbidden desire at a kink club turns into a fight for survival when nuclear war begins.

by Rebecca Quinn 2025

4.18

2k+ ratings

💔 Post-Apocalyptic Romance 🎖️ Military Romance 🖤 Dark Erotica

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner • 2003

America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.

3.91

6k+

☣️ Ecological Dystopia 🗣️ Reluctant Prophet 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

The Sheep Look Up 86%

America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.

by John Brunner 2003

3.91

6k+ ratings

☣️ Ecological Dystopia 🗣️ Reluctant Prophet 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

The Rule of Three

by Eric Walters • 2014

A tech collapse forces a teen to lead his neighborhood's defense against a ruthless enemy.

4.00

8k+

💻 Tech Collapse 🫂 Found Family 🛡️ Makeshift Militia

The Rule of Three 86%

A tech collapse forces a teen to lead his neighborhood's defense against a ruthless enemy.

by Eric Walters 2014

4.00

8k+ ratings

💻 Tech Collapse 🫂 Found Family 🛡️ Makeshift Militia

DEV1AT3

by Jay Kristoff • 2019

Hunted for her power, Lemon Fresh finds her grandfather and a refuge built on secrets.

4.13

5k+

🤖 Ai Consciousness 🏜️ Wasteland Survival 💛 Found Family

DEV1AT3 86%

Hunted for her power, Lemon Fresh finds her grandfather and a refuge built on secrets.

by Jay Kristoff 2019

4.13

5k+ ratings

🤖 Ai Consciousness 🏜️ Wasteland Survival 💛 Found Family

Robopocalypse

by Daniel H. Wilson • 2011

An AI decides Earth can only survive without humans. Every machine on the planet turns killer.

3.71

42k+

🤖 Robot Uprising 🎙️ Oral History ⚔️ Military Sci-Fi

Robopocalypse 86%

An AI decides Earth can only survive without humans. Every machine on the planet turns killer.

by Daniel H. Wilson 2011

3.71

42k+ ratings

🤖 Robot Uprising 🎙️ Oral History ⚔️ Military Sci-Fi

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison • 1967

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

3.89

57k+

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream 86%

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

by Harlan Ellison 1967

3.89

57k+ ratings

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture

The Silo Saga Omnibus

by Hugh Howey • 2020

A buried city's condemned clean the cameras outside, then die. The new sheriff suspects a lie.

4.58

5k+

🏗️ Underground City 🏘️ Isolated Community 🚪 Ritual Exile

The Silo Saga Omnibus 86%

A buried city's condemned clean the cameras outside, then die. The new sheriff suspects a lie.

by Hugh Howey 2020

4.58

5k+ ratings

🏗️ Underground City 🏘️ Isolated Community 🚪 Ritual Exile

The Wall

by Marlen Haushofer • 1999

An invisible wall seals a woman inside a mountain valley, the world beyond it frozen dead.

3.99

42k+

🏔️ Literary Dystopia 💨 Quiet Apocalypse 🌿 Female Survivalist

The Wall 86%

An invisible wall seals a woman inside a mountain valley, the world beyond it frozen dead.

by Marlen Haushofer 1999

3.99

42k+ ratings

🏔️ Literary Dystopia 💨 Quiet Apocalypse 🌿 Female Survivalist

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 86%

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

Memorial Day

by Vince Flynn • 2004

A nuclear device is seized, but a second bomb is already racing toward the capital.

4.33

53k+

☢️ Nuclear Terrorism ⏰ Ticking Clock 🕵️ Lone Wolf Operative

Memorial Day 86%

A nuclear device is seized, but a second bomb is already racing toward the capital.

by Vince Flynn 2004

4.33

53k+ ratings

☢️ Nuclear Terrorism ⏰ Ticking Clock 🕵️ Lone Wolf Operative

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

by C.A. Fletcher • 2019

When their dog is stolen, a young islander chases the stranger into an emptied Britain.

4.15

22k+

🍃 Quiet Apocalypse 🐕 Dog As Family 🎭 Hidden Gender

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World Summary

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World 86%

When their dog is stolen, a young islander chases the stranger into an emptied Britain.

by C.A. Fletcher 2019

4.15

22k+ ratings

🍃 Quiet Apocalypse 🐕 Dog As Family 🎭 Hidden Gender

Arsenals of Folly

by Richard Rhodes • 2007

Two leaders came within one word of eliminating all nuclear weapons, then lost the moment.

3.96

856

🧊 Cold War History ☢️ Nuclear Arms Race 🚨 Nuclear Brinkmanship

Arsenals of Folly 86%

Two leaders came within one word of eliminating all nuclear weapons, then lost the moment.

by Richard Rhodes 2007

3.96

856 ratings

🧊 Cold War History ☢️ Nuclear Arms Race 🚨 Nuclear Brinkmanship

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 86%

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

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 86%

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

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

by Paul Auster • 1987

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

3.91

16k+

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster Summary

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster 86%

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

by Paul Auster 1987

3.91

16k+ ratings

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family

Hirošiman kukat

by Edita Morris • 1959

A Hiroshima housewife hides her husband's radiation sickness from the American lodger she takes in.

4.05

1k+

🏯 Postwar Japan ☢️ Nuclear Aftermath 🏥 Radiation Sickness

Hirošiman kukat 86%

A Hiroshima housewife hides her husband's radiation sickness from the American lodger she takes in.

by Edita Morris 1959

4.05

1k+ ratings

🏯 Postwar Japan ☢️ Nuclear Aftermath 🏥 Radiation Sickness

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

by Philip K. Dick • 2011

A bounty hunter kills androids who pass as human, until the work starts feeling like murder.

4.04

5k+

🏙️ Android Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Humanity 🌿 Artificial Nature

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 Summary

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 86%

A bounty hunter kills androids who pass as human, until the work starts feeling like murder.

by Philip K. Dick 2011

4.04

5k+ ratings

🏙️ Android Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Humanity 🌿 Artificial Nature

The Best of Connie Willis

by Connie Willis • 1993

In worlds broken by time, war, and alien judgment, people still find reasons to sing.

4.10

2k+

🚀 Literary Sf 🌀 Genre Blending 🖤 Bittersweet

The Best of Connie Willis 86%

In worlds broken by time, war, and alien judgment, people still find reasons to sing.

by Connie Willis 1993

4.10

2k+ ratings

🚀 Literary Sf 🌀 Genre Blending 🖤 Bittersweet

Malorie

by Josh Malerman • 2020

A survivor list names her parents. Malorie boards a blind train through a world where looking kills.

3.79

28k+

🐦‍⬛ Unseen Horror 👩‍👧‍👦 Overprotective Mother 🔗 Generational Rift

Malorie 86%

A survivor list names her parents. Malorie boards a blind train through a world where looking kills.

by Josh Malerman 2020

3.79

28k+ ratings

🐦‍⬛ Unseen Horror 👩‍👧‍👦 Overprotective Mother 🔗 Generational Rift

The Girl Who Dared to Stand

by Bella Forrest • 2017

In an AI-run tower, a fugitive uncovers the machine's kinder prototype and a founding murder.

4.27

6k+

🏢 Dystopian Tower 🤝 Found Family ⚔️ Ragtag Rebels

The Girl Who Dared to Stand 86%

In an AI-run tower, a fugitive uncovers the machine's kinder prototype and a founding murder.

by Bella Forrest 2017

4.27

6k+ ratings

🏢 Dystopian Tower 🤝 Found Family ⚔️ Ragtag Rebels

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