18 books like Cell

What to read after Cell — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain · 1934 · ★ 3.6 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Frank Chambers, un trotamundos sin empleo, narra en primera persona la atracción que siente por Cora Papadakis, la esposa de un emigrante de origen griego propietario de una taberna en California, y cómo se vuelven amantes unidos por el ardor y la ambición. Pero no será tan fácil librarse del viejo marido. Y habrá que contar, además, con el inescrutable destino: ese cartero que siempre llama dos… Shares: Asesinos, Novela psicológica, Murderers

Infected Scott Sigler · 2008 · ★ 4.2 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government's shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya… Shares: Murderers, Horror

Dead sea Brian Keene · 2007 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate With zombies taking over the cities, a group of humans escapes the carnage by taking a small Coast Guard ship out to sea, but there's no getting away—even in the wide ocean. Shares: Zombies, Horror

Desperation Stephen King · 1996 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China Pit have accidentally broken into another dimension and released a horrific creature known as Tak, who takes human form by hijacking some of the town's residents. The forces of good orchestrate a… Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Horror

Absolute Friends John le Carré · 2003 · ★ 3.7 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in the shining-new Republic of Pakistan, is friends with Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass world of Cold War espionage and in today's world of terror. Originally published. Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Een 53-jarige vrouw zit in een midlife-crisis en blikt terug op de tijd dat ze als 19-jarige trouwde met een weduwnaar met drie dochters, een groot huis en een bedrijf. Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 662p · ≈ 22h · Moderate More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal... Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Science Fiction

13 Steps Down Ruth Rendell · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix's eighty-year-old landlady has few interests beside her old books and her new tenant.… Shares: Murderers, Psychological fiction

Преступление и наказание Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1866 · ★ 4.3 · 562p · ≈ 18h · Challenging From wikipedia: Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: \[prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə\]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.1 It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's… Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This deluxe trade paperback edition of Alice Sebold's modern classic features French flaps and rough-cut pages.Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book - a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry, its luminous clarity of emotion, and its astoniishing… Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

Mountain Man Keith C Blackmore · 2012 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Boomstick.Samurai bat.Motorcycle leather.And the will to live amongst the unliving.Augustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when "they" will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain since the demise of civilization, Gus… Shares: Zombies, Horror

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor) James Hogg · 1824 · ★ 3.6 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was… Shares: Murderers, Psychological fiction

Zombies (Tales of Horror) Jim Pipe · 2006 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate They rise from their smoldering graves and lurch through the night. Do zombies walk among us, feeding on our fear-and flesh? Children will discover some spine-tingling answers in Zombies. Combining gripping narratives with documented facts, Zombies provides some startling answers. So slam tight the doors before you open this book! Full-color photographs, vivid drawings, spine-tingling narratives,… Shares: Zombies, Horror

Endzeit Olivia Vieweg · 2018 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate German-language description: Zwischen Überlebenskampf und Schuldgefühlen: Zwei Frauen auf einer Reise zu sich selbst Vor zwei Jahren haben Zombies die Erde überrannt. Die Städte Weimar und Jena haben es geschafft, einen Schutzzaun zu errichten und den Kreaturen zu trotzen. Die einzige Verbindung ist ein automatisierter, für Personen verbotener Güterzug. Aber genau in dem begegnen sich Vivi (22)… Shares: Zombies, Horror

Queen Victoria A. E. Moorat · 2009 · ★ 2.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate There were many staff at Kensington Palace, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a surprise.London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the scepter, and an arsenal of bloodstained weaponry. If… Shares: Zombies, Horror

The Damned Algernon Blackwood · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood. Shares: Horror

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce · 1913 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is about stories that encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer. Shares: Horror

Darkness Comes Dean Koontz · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. Shares: Horror

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