If you like Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton's best-selling books are adventure stories with a technological twist. If you enjoy thrillers that blend science and humanity, try one of these readalikes!

Updated July 6, 2026
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Atlantis found
Cussler, Clive.
Paper Book
Marine explorer Dirk Pitt faces off against an elite army from an era gone-by in order to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.   A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado...
Blood memory
Iles, Greg.
Paper Book
From the author of the New York Times bestelling Natchez Burning Trilogy, and hailed by Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) for his "utterly consuming" suspense fiction, Greg Iles melds forensic detail with penetrating insight into the heart of a killer in a southern town.
Bloodstream
Gerritsen, Tess.
Paper Book
Tess Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism in this "intricate thriller" (People) as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak--before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small...
The bone collector
Deaver, Jeffery.
Paper Book
Chrysalis : a thriller
Child, Lincoln
Paper Book
A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company--Chrysalis--whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live...and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. ...
Darwin's radio
Bear, Greg
Paper Book
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter...
Deep freeze
Grumley, Michael C.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of the Breakthrough series: In his next near-future thriller, Michael C. Grumley explores humanity's thirst for immortality--at any cost... "A fast-paced juggernaut of a story, where revelations pile upon revelations, building to a stunning...
Esau
Kerr, Philip.
Paper Book
Clinging to the Southwest face of Annapurna, the climber cuts another handhold. Suddenly everything goes still -- then the mountain roars, shaking loose its killing load, tumbling the climber before it.In an ice cave high in the Himalayas, a perfectly preserved skull is found. A fossil from a long...
Exhalation
Chiang, Ted
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories--two published for the very first time--all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others ...
Ghost fleet : a novel of the next world war
Singer, P. W.
Paper Book
What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in...
The gone world
Sweterlitsch, Tom
Paper Book
"I promise you have never read a story like this."--Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent...
Into the drowning deep
Grant, Mira
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant takes us on a terrifying journey into the unknown where human frailty meets the awesome power of nature and myths come to life. "A claustrophobic, deep-sea terror tale that will leave readers glad to be safely on dry land...
The kill switch
Rollins, James
Paper Book
From bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood, the first installment in an exciting new thriller series based on the Sigma Force novels featuring former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his partner, Army working dog Kane, introduced in the New York Times bestseller Bloodline and the e...
The Martian : a novel
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man's struggle to survive. From the author of Project Hail Mary comes "a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire" (Chicago Tribune).<...
Nano
Cook, Robin
Paper Book
After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning...
Old bones
Preston, Douglas J.
Paper Book
The #1 NYT bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in this thrilling novel of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense. "Exceeds expectations at every juncture, a thriller extraordinaire that turns...
Pines : a novel
Crouch, Blake.
Paper Book
The one-million copy bestseller that inspired the Fox TV show. Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival,...
Reamde
Stephenson, Neal.
Paper Book
"Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling." --Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and...
Tom Clancy full force and effect
Greaney, Mark.
Paper Book
A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t...
The twelve : a novel
Cronin, Justin.
Paper Book
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel "The Passage, " Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with the second installment of this...
The wild trees : a story of passion and daring
Preston, Richard
Paper Book
From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual passion for the tallest trees in the world, the startling biosystem of Rthe canopy, S and those who are committed to the preservation of this astonishing and largely unknown world.
World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war
Brooks, Max
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies."--Entertainment Weekly   We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by...

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