Books Like Frankenstein

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Dan Stevens narrates Frankenstein with an eerie, sculpted intensity — his Victor is both feverish and cold, a man who speaks of creation the way others speak of God, and the creature's chapters arrive in a voice that is somehow more eloquent and more wounded than the man who made him. At 9 hours, the story never rushes its philosophical dread. Several of these recommendations also feature Stevens in the 's chair, and the rest run a similar length with that same unsettling quality of horror that thinks.

10 books for fans of Frankenstein

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    All These Worlds

    Bobiverse • Book 3

    by Dennis E. Taylor

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    Taylor concludes his Bobiverse trilogy as Bob's clones face their greatest challenge: ancient aliens bent on destroying every thinking species they encounter.

    4.68 BLT Score (65.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (65.4K)
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    For We Are Many

    Bobiverse • Book 2

    by Dennis E. Taylor

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    Bob's AI copies have spent forty years searching for habitable worlds, but now face system-wide civil war and an alien species that wants humanity extinct.

    4.67 BLT Score (75.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K)
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    The Flood

    Arisen • Book 10

    by Michael Stephen Fuchs

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    Major Jameson must decide whether to risk everything on a mission into the collapsed Russian Empire to retrieve a designer pathogen deadly enough to stop the zombie hordes threatening London.

    4.46 BLT Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (1.9K)
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    Second Foundation

    Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 3

    by Isaac Asimov

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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.

    4.46 BLT Score (204.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (204.3K)
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    Foundation and Empire

    Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 2

    by Isaac Asimov

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    Watch Asimov's Foundation face its greatest threat: a mutant who can manipulate emotions and render Seldon's predictions useless.

    4.43 BLT Score (228.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (228.2K)
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    Old Man's War

    Old Man\u2019s War • Book 1

    by John Scalzi

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    Join the army at 75, get a new enhanced body, and fight aliens for habitable planets—Scalzi's take on military sci-fi.

    4.43 BLT Score (226.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (226.8K)
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    Death of Empires

    Arisen • Book 7

    by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

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    The beloved military zombie series powers toward its cataclysmic finale—over 175,000 copies sold as survivors face their most desperate battles yet against overwhelming undead hordes.

    4.41 BLT Score (2.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.41 Goodreads (2.0K)
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    Cataclysm

    Arisen • Book 9

    by Michael Stephen Fuchs

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    The endgame arrives with London overrun, Alpha team divided by doubt in Africa, and the world's potential savior falling from space. This ninth installment delivers the promised cataclysmic conclusion to the zombie apocalypse saga.

    4.41 BLT Score (1.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (1.8K)
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    Cinder

    The Lunar Chronicles • Book 1

    by Marissa Meyer

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    Cinderella becomes a cyborg mechanic in plague-ravaged New Beijing, with lunar colonists scheming to destroy Earth. Meyer updates the classic fairy tale with inventive sci-fi elements and genuine romantic tension.

    4.39 BLT Score (1.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (1.0M)
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    The Horizon

    Arisen • Book 6

    by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

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    With their mission complete, Alpha team finally has time to tend their humanity aboard the carrier JFK, but darkness and isolation bring their own psychological warfare.

    4.39 BLT Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (2.2K)

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