15 books like The Reckoning

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

The Haunted Car Robert Lawrence Stine · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Mitchell's parents are delighted with their recent purchase of a sleek sportscar, yet when the car's ghost makes an appearance, the family realizes that they had gotten much more than they bargained for. Shares Automobiles

The Frackers

The Frackers Gregory Zuckerman · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy. In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

Christine Stephen King · 1983 · ★ 3.9 · 492p · ≈ 16h · Moderate A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly. ([source][1]) [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/christine.html Shares Automobiles

Private Empire

Private Empire Steve Coll · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Moderate “ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged reporter . . . extraordinary . . . monumental.” —The Washington Post“Fascinating . . . Private Empire is a book meticulously prepared as if for trial . . . a compelling and elucidatory work.” —BloombergFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, an extraordinary exposé of Big… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the magical car Ian Fleming · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers. Shares Automobiles

The Taking of Getty Oil

The Taking of Getty Oil Steve Coll · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 532p · ≈ 17h · Moderate xiii, 531 pages ; 21 cm Shares Petroleum industry and trade

How to be rich J. Paul Getty · 1965 · ★ 5.0 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate J. Paul Getty draws on his own experiences of becoming the worlds first generally recognized billionaire to explain money and economics. He does so in a way that is very readable even to the novice. He is surprisingly down to earth and rather philosophical in his discussion of what wealth is, what it means to have wealth and as the title itself states "How to be rich". J. Paul explains in… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

My life and work Ford, Henry · 1922 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Henry Ford's classic treatise on life and business Written by the legendary inventor and industrialist who pioneered the American automotive industry, My Life and Work is a unique combination of memoir and business treatise. In straightforward and inviting prose, Henry Ford describes his early life as a mechanically inclined farmer's son, the inner workings of his famed motor company, and the… Shares Automobiles

Mr. Mercedes Stephen King · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 478p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop… Shares Automobiles

Boneshaker Kate Milford · 2010 When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right. Shares Automobiles

Murder at Cape Three Points Kwei Quartey · 2014 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Petroleum industry and trade with this book.

Treasure of Khan Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Genghis Khan the greatest conqueror of all time, who at his peak ruled an empire four times the size of Alexander the Great's, a vast expanse which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. And now somebody wants it back. Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew are about to come head to head with their most dangerous ever enemy. A mysterious Mongolian mogul harbors a dream of restoring the… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

Murder At Cape Three Points Kwei Quartey · 2014 Shares Petroleum industry and trade with this book.

Oil! Upton Sinclair · 1927 · ★ 3.7 · 535p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

Black Water Rising Attica Locke · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client is a low-rent call girl and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall. But he's long since made peace with not living… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

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