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Dungeon Crawler Carl.

The Dungeon Archivist · 14 pages

The Earth is gone. The surface is flattened. And the apocalypse is being televised. When an enormous alien corporation called the Syndicate arrives at Earth, they don't ask questions. Using planetary-scale mining tech, they instantly flatten every building on the globe, crushing billions of humans in seconds. The only survivors? The incredibly lucky few who happened to be standing outdoors at that

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Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 3 (Graphic Novel)

Matt Dinniman, Aethon

The New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaption of the wildly popular and addictive #1 New York Times bestselling LitRPG series Dungeon Crawler Carl continues with its third volume. The Apocalypse will be televised! The New York Times bestselling graphic novel series continues. Carl won’t be broken. But that doesn’t mean he won’t have to work for it, as the sadistic A.I. running the Dungeon

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Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel)

Matt Dinniman, Rhett C. Bruno, Jaime Castle

The wildly popular and addictive New York Times bestselling LitRPG series, DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, continues as a graphic novel in DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Vol. 2. The Apocalypse will be televised! The world may be over, but Carl and Princess Donut have a motorcycle and a mission: Make it to the second floor. What could possibly stand in their way? For starters, a horde of goblins, homicidal fellow cra

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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 384 pages

Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. The nation of Panem, formed from a post-apocalyptic North America, is a country that consists of a wealthy Capitol region surrounded by 12 poorer districts. Early in its history, a rebellion led by a 13th district against the Capitol resulted in its destruction and the creation of an annual televised event known as the Hunger Games. In

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The Primal Hunter 4

Zogarth · 806 pages

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The Running Man

Stephen King · 256 pages

The runaway bestseller about the ultimate reality showThe year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's latest contestant-and the Hunters' latest target in a rigged game of death…

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The Running Man

Richard Bachman · 352 pages

Reality TVDeadly CompetitionGame ShowRebellion Against Authority
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City of Thieves

David Benioff · 286 pages

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives b

Race Against TimeSurvival StoryQuest NarrativeDark Comedy
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He Who Fights with Monsters 2

Shirtaloon · 564 pages

LitRPG/GameLitDungeon CrawlFound FamilyAdventure
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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Ricky K. Burks · 230 pages

The apocalypse is live. And you are the content. When salvage diver Carl Morrow finds himself trapped in an alien dungeon beneath the Chernobyl exclusion zone, survival is only half the problem. The dungeon is a set. The monsters are cast members. And four point nine billion viewers across the galaxy are watching every move he makes. His only ally is Grub. A capybara. Sixty-five kilograms of absol

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Battle Royale

Koushun Takami · 428 pages

Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it became a runaway best seller--*Battle Ro

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Angelfall

Susan Ee

Survival StoryRace Against TimeQuest NarrativeTense and Suspenseful
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Blood Red Road

Moira Young

To escape, she will have to fight. To survive, she will have to lead. Saba's world is shattered when her twin brother, Lugh, is captured by four cloaked horsemen. Determined to rescue him, Saba sets off into the lawless, wasted landscape left behind by the Wreckers. It's a brutal world where Saba discovers some surprising things about herself: She's a fierce fighter, a cunning opponent, and above

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The Perfect Run II

Maxime J. Durand · 653 pages

Absurdist HumorFound FamilyPlot-DrivenDark Comedy
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The Martian

Andy Weir · 383 pages

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long be

Survival StoryRace Against TimePlot-DrivenTense and Suspenseful
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The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · 384 pages

How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. But Apollo has many enemie

Race Against TimeQuest NarrativeFound FamilyPlot-Driven
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Tyrant's Throne

Sebastien de Castell · 601 pages

After years of struggle and sacrifice, Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead king's dream: Aline, the king's daughter, is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and for all.But for the Greatcoats, nothing is ever that simple. In the neighboring country of Avares, an enigmatic new warlord is uniting the barbarian armies that have

Rebellion Against AuthorityFound FamilyPlot-DrivenDark Comedy
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Sword Art Online, Vol. 01: Aincrad

Reki Kawahara · 248 pages

In the year 2022, some six thousand gamers excitedly explore the new Sword Art Online, which manipulates users' brain waves to create a wholly realistic gaming experience, but soon learn it lacks a log-out button and to escape they must conquer all one hundred floors--or die trying.

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Congo

Michael Crichton · 348 pages

The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery —and now Congo! It's Crichton in top form—and the terrain this time is darkest Africa. Three daring adventurers trek into the jungle—into the very' heart of the Congo, through cannibal country, past flaming volcanoes—in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. Pure H. Rider Haggard, but with the incomparable Crichton difference! His intrepid ba

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The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt · 379 pages

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, El

Quest NarrativeDark ComedyAdventureAbsurdist Humor
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The Rise of Nine

Pittacus Lore · 360 pages

Race Against TimePlot-DrivenFound FamilyAdventure
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Library of Souls

Ransom Riggs · 463 pages

Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Feat

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