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One of the most prolific writers of our time, Cormac McCarthy is responsible for dark, poetic tales like The Road and No Country For Old Men. McCarthy's ability to showcase the dimensions of the human psyche allow him to weave breakneck adventures with emotional complexity. If you enjoy thrilling literary fiction (with perhaps some missing punctuation) try our list of six books to read if you like Cormac McCarthy.

Books to Read if You Like Cormac McCarthy

 

Fever Tree: A Novel

Tim Applegate

Release Date: August 2, 2016

When a handsome mysterious man named Dieter moves to Crooked River, Florida, the small town erupts with rumors. Despite making friends with the locals, some residents are paranoid that he's there for the wrong reasons. One such resident Teddy Mink, the town's notorious drug lord, is convinced Dieter is there to investigate him and starts formulating a plan to silence him. When Dieter falls in love with town sweetheart Maggie Paterson, her ex joins in on the plan to get rid of Dieter and things get even more troubling.

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The Things We Wish Were True

Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

Release Date: September 1, 2016

With its white picket fences and freshly-mowed grass, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina looks like the perfect idyllic town. When an accident at the community pool starts unraveling the town's many secrets, the neighbors' intertwined lives are dropped into chaos. As the sweltering hot summer bears down on the town, they must question whether or not it's possible to forgive and move on.

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Nutshell

Ian McEwan

Release Date: September 13, 2016

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still living in their dilapidated London townhouse but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.

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The Darkest Secret

Alex Marwood

Release Date: August 30, 2016

Twelve years ago, a media storm descended upon the Jacksons' seaside vacation home. Three-year-old Coco disappeared during her father's fiftieth birthday party and the only witness to her kidnapping is her identical twin sister Ruby. The girl's father, Sean, was wealthy and influential as were most of his friends. Now Sean Jackson is dead and those present at the vacation home twelve years ago must come together for the funeral that will reveal more secrets than can ever stay hidden.

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The Buried Book

D.M. Pulley

Release Date: August 23, 2016

Nine-year-old Jasper is left by his mother at his uncle's farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a bible. No one knows where his mother went or if she's coming back and his uncle doesn't like questions. Desperate to see her again, Jasper ventures out into 1952 Detroit where he will discover an adult world filled with corruption, scandal, murder, and what exactly his mother was running from.

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Before the Fall

Noah Hawley

Release Date: May 31, 2016

On a foggy summer night, eleven people depart Martha's Vineyard on a private plane headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy who is now the last remaining member of an immensely rich and powerful family. Was it merely by chance that such influential people all perished together? Or was it something more sinister?

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Paula Hawkins' psychological thriller The Girl on the Train is a twisting journey with chilling consequences to curiosity. Soon to be a major motion picture, the #1 New York Times Bestseller and USA Today Book of the Year captivated readers and had them begging for more. If you're ready for more harrowing twists and turns, try these books to read if you like The Girl on the Train.

Books to Read if You Like The Girl on the Train

 

Kiss of the Sun

R.K. Jackson

Release Date: September 20, 2016

Martha Covington has earned a reputation as a psychic on a small island off the Georgia coast. Her interest in healing roots and a schizophrenia diagnosis don't help rid her of that designation she hates. But when an elderly couple from Atlanta seeks her out for help finding their missing grandson, Martha can't say no. The missing boy leads Martha on a journey where she will discover how thin the line between intuition and insanity is.

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The Butterfly Garden

Dot Hutchison

Release Date: June 1, 2016

FBI Agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with the most stomach-churning case of their careers when the Butterfly Garden is discovered. For years The Gardener, a brutal, twisted man captured and preserved "butterflies" in his mansion's garden — young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Now a survivor, Maya, is brought in for questioning and her story sheds light on just how gruesome the garden was.

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The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena

Release Date: August 23, 2016

Detective Rasbach arrvies at a suburban dinner party where a terrible crime has been committed. The homeowners, Anne and Marco Conti, are a seemingly perfect couple — a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and a beautiful baby Cora — but Detective Rasbach suspects otherwise. As the unsettling account of what actually happens unfolds, secrets that have been kept for years come tumbling out for everyone to see.

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Interference

Amélie Antoine

Release Date: September 1, 2016

When Gabriel's picture-perfect life is torn apart by the drowning of his wife, Chloé, he joins a bereavement group to help him move on from her mysterious death. There he meets photographer Emma whom he grows closer to despite feeling his wife's presence everywhere he goes. As he slowly uncovers the circumstances of his wife's death, he starts questioning whether Emma is all that different from Chloé.

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The Off Season

Colleen Thompson

Release Date: September 13, 2016

Recently widowed emergency room physician Dr. Christina Paxton has returned to the Jersey Shore, house-sitting a beachside Victorian home. One night, her two-year-old daughter calls her by a name tat makes Christina's blood run cold and sends her thoughts spiraling back thirty years. Deeply unnerved, she flees with her child into the cold night only to come face-to-face with Chief Harris Bowers, a former classmate with whom Christina has a complicated history with. As threats emerge, Christina and her daughter find themselves in grave danger, will anyone be able to help them?

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The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware

Release Date: July 19, 2016

Lo Blacklock is a journalist who has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. At first, the trip is everything it's supposed to be — the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But when the weather gets choppy things get darker onboard and Lo witnesses a woman being thrown overboard in the middle of a storm. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for and so the ship sails on as if nothing happened despite Lo's pleas that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

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The end is nigh. We may have made it through the year 2012 but apocalypses are still holding the attention of readers everywhere. Books like Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games put humanity at the forefront and allow readers to contemplate how they would cope in dire straights. If you live for the thrill of nuclear events, dystopian governments and doomsday bunkers, check out our list of books to read if you like post-apocalyptic thrillers.

Books to Read if You Like Post-Apocalyptic Thrillers

 

Surrender the Sun

A.R. Shaw

Release Date: August 4, 2016

With a mini-ice age covering the globe, Maeve Tildon and her son Ben are barely keeping their head above water in their rural town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Nearby in the Kootenai National Forest, Bishop lives alone. A war-torn man, he long ago decided to avoid interacting with others. But when the first freeze strikes in the fall, Bishop may be the only one who can rescue Maeve and her son.

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State of Panic

Jack Hunt

Release Date: August 10, 2016

A malfunction with the U.S. anti-missile system that mistakingly fires upon Germany, plunges America back into war. When Germany retaliates, millions are killed and the electrical grid is destroyed. Now, officers from a wilderness correctional camp and their juvenile charges must work together to survive the darkness.

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Enduring the Crisis

K.D. Kinney

Release Date: August 8, 2016

Preparation can only take you so far. Tammy and Ben Powell have been preparing for a disaster for years with enough food and supplies for their family of 7. But when disaster really hits and Ben is separated from his family, will Tammy be able to handle the crisis on her own and will she be able to protect her five daughters?

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Unexpected World

Chris Pike

Release Date: June 1, 2016

Assistant District Attorney Dillon Stockdale is on the phone with his daughter when an EMP hits the United States, disabling anything that relies on a computer, including the plane she is on. Determined and terrified of her fate, he sets off to rescue her from Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin. Will he be able to find her? Is there anything to find?

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36 Hours

Bobby Akart

Release Date: July 23, 2016

A catastrophic solar flare is set to hit Earth in only 36 hours. The Rymans aren't prepared in the slightest. Colton Ryman, his stay-at-home wife Madison and their teenage daughter Alex don't have an emergency bunker or years of food stored in their basement. In fact, they had never even heard of preppers before suddenly it was a good thing to be one. When the world is panicking will one family be able to survive?

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Hell Divers

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Release Date: July 19, 2016

Years in the future, the last of humanity live on massive airships circling the destroyed Earth in search of a habitable area. These ships are old and outdated and most have them have crashed back to Earth a long time ago but two ships still survive. The only thing keeping them in the air are Hell Divers: men and women who risk their lives to search for parts the ships desperately needs by diving to the surface. Now with one of the ships badly damaged in an electrical storm, one of these divers must enter the hostile zone called Hades. What they find there is worse than anyone could have ever imagined.

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