Books Like The Tommyknockers

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If you loved The Tommyknockers by Stephen King, these books share similar qualities — same genre, comparable themes, and the kind of reader ratings that signal something special. Whether you read on Kindle, in print, or on audio, these recommendations deliver the same kind of experience.

10 books for fans of The Tommyknockers

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    11/22/63 cover

    11/22/63

    by Stephen King

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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)
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    Sleeping Beauties

    by Stephen King, Owen King

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    Sleeping women become wrapped in mysterious cocoons and turn violent when disturbed, dividing the world by gender as society crumbles and men reveal their true nature.

    3.73 Goodreads (96.1K ratings)
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    Light Bringer

    Red Rising • Book 6

    by Pierce Brown

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    Brown's space opera reaches new emotional depths as Darrow faces his greatest losses yet, while political maneuvering threatens to destroy everything the Rising fought for.

    4.77 Goodreads (110.6K ratings)
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    This Inevitable Ruin

    Dungeon Crawler Carl • Book 7

    by Matt Dinniman

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    Floor nine brings Faction Wars: nine alien-sponsored armies battling for a central castle in the Dungeon Crawler system's most elaborate death match yet.

    4.68 Goodreads (74.1K ratings)
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    The Dark Forest

    Remembrance of Earth's Past • Book 2

    by Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen

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    If the universe is a dark forest full of hidden predators, humanity just revealed its location to the Trisolaran fleet.

    4.40 Goodreads (224.9K ratings)
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    Death's End

    Remembrance of Earth's Past • Book 3

    by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu

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    The Three-Body trilogy's finale follows humanity's desperate attempts to survive alien colonization across multiple centuries and dimensions. Liu's hard science fiction tackles the Fermi paradox with solutions both ingenious and terrifying.

    4.40 Goodreads (176.1K ratings)
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    Calibans Krieg

    The Expanse • Book 2

    by James S.A. Corey

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    Der zweite Band der Expanse-Saga eskaliert die Spannungen zwischen Erde und Mars, während das Protomolekül neue Bedrohungen auf Ganymed schafft. Corey erweitert das Universum um neue Charaktere und politische Komplexitäten.

    4.39 Goodreads (185.8K ratings)
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    A Deepness in the Sky

    Zones of Thought • Book 2

    by Vernor Vinge

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    Vinge alternates between human traders orbiting an alien world and the spider civilization below, building toward a collision between species as the arachnids develop technology and space flight.

    4.32 Goodreads (35.3K ratings)
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    Sector 64 Box Set

    Sector 64 • Book 1

    by Dean M. Cole

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    Cole's trilogy explores the unintended consequences of human advancement: our attempt at species uplift draws hostile alien attention. Fighter pilots become humanity's unlikely heroes in a war we never saw coming.

    5.00 Goodreads (1 ratings)
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    Exploration: A Litrpg Apocalypse

    Welcome to the Multiverse • Book 10

    by Sean Oswald, Joshua Mason

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    Transported across the multiverse to medieval Aerth, Silas confronts the Order—a powerful faction that cloaks control and oppression in the language of righteousness.

    4.68 Goodreads (635 ratings)