Books Like The Passage

10 books for fans of The Passage

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   Ender's Shadow

   Ender's Shadow • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   While Ender commanded armies, Bean—a street-smart child genius—survived through pure intellect, revealing the hidden machinations behind humanity's most crucial military training.

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   While Ender commanded armies, Bean—a street-smart child genius—survived through pure intellect, revealing the hidden machinations behind humanity's most crucial military training.

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (180.6K ratings)

   469 pages • 1999

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   11/22/63

   by Stephen King

   Jake Epping finds a diner's back room leads to 1958, launching his mission to stop Lee Harvey Oswald while navigating how the past resists alteration.

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   Jake Epping finds a diner's back room leads to 1958, launching his mission to stop Lee Harvey Oswald while navigating how the past resists alteration.

   ★ 4.35 Goodreads (667.2K ratings)

   849 pages • 2011

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   Dune

   Dune • Book 1

   by Frank Herbert

   Herbert constructs an intricate desert world where political intrigue, ecological themes, and mystical prophecy converge around young Paul Atreides' dangerous awakening to power.

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   Herbert constructs an intricate desert world where political intrigue, ecological themes, and mystical prophecy converge around young Paul Atreides' dangerous awakening to power.

   ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.6M ratings)

   658 pages • 1965

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   Second Foundation

   Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 3

   by Isaac Asimov

   Both the Mule and the Foundation search for the mysterious Second Foundation, but teenage Arkady may be the only one who knows its true location.

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   Both the Mule and the Foundation search for the mysterious Second Foundation, but teenage Arkady may be the only one who knows its true location.

   ★ 4.28 Goodreads (204.3K ratings)

   256 pages • 1953

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   Foundation's Edge

   Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 4

   by Isaac Asimov

   Set centuries after the original trilogy, psychohistory itself becomes suspect when Foundation councilor Trevize questions whether humanity's future is truly secure from hidden manipulation.

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   Set centuries after the original trilogy, psychohistory itself becomes suspect when Foundation councilor Trevize questions whether humanity's future is truly secure from hidden manipulation.

   ★ 4.19 Goodreads (99.4K ratings)

   450 pages • 1982

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   Foundation

   Foundation • Book 3

   by Isaac Asimov

   Asimov's classic launches his Foundation saga as mathematician Hari Seldon uses psychohistory to predict the Empire's fall and establish humanity's path through barbarism.

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   Asimov's classic launches his Foundation saga as mathematician Hari Seldon uses psychohistory to predict the Empire's fall and establish humanity's path through barbarism.

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (600.9K ratings)

   277 pages • 1951

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   Jurassic Park

   Jurassic Park • Book 1

   by Michael Crichton

   Genetic engineering resurrects dinosaurs for the ultimate theme park, but when the security systems fail, visitors become prey in a tropical hunting ground.

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   Genetic engineering resurrects dinosaurs for the ultimate theme park, but when the security systems fail, visitors become prey in a tropical hunting ground.

   ★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.1M ratings)

   466 pages • 1990

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   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

   Blade Runner

   by Philip K. Dick

   In a world where owning a real animal is the ultimate status symbol, android hunters question the line between human and artificial consciousness. Dick's paranoid vision inspired Blade Runner.

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   In a world where owning a real animal is the ultimate status symbol, android hunters question the line between human and artificial consciousness. Dick's paranoid vision inspired Blade Runner.

   ★ 4.09 Goodreads (517.9K ratings)

   258 pages • 1968

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   The Butlerian Jihad

   Legends of Dune • Book 1

   by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

   Ten thousand years before Paul Atreides, humanity wages its first war against artificial intelligence in the conflict that will shape the Dune universe forever.

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   Ten thousand years before Paul Atreides, humanity wages its first war against artificial intelligence in the conflict that will shape the Dune universe forever.

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (90.2K ratings)

   695 pages • 2002

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    Pathfinder

    Pathfinder • Book 1

    by Orson Scott Card

    Time isn't linear when you can see every path a person has ever walked, and Rigg's strange gift threatens to unravel his world's carefully hidden secrets. Card builds a fascinating magic system around temporal perception and consequence.

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    Time isn't linear when you can see every path a person has ever walked, and Rigg's strange gift threatens to unravel his world's carefully hidden secrets. Card builds a fascinating magic system around temporal perception and consequence.

    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (25.1K ratings)

    657 pages • 2010

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