28 Books like Upgrade

Girl in a Rabbit Hole

by R.J. Law

A geneticist refuses a shadowy offer, and within days her entire life is surgically erased.

3.50

1k+

🧬 Genetic Horror 👁️ Paranoid Thriller 🏛️ Shadow Government 💪 Superhuman Transformation 🔪 Female Vengeance

Girl in a Rabbit Hole 92%

A geneticist refuses a shadowy offer, and within days her entire life is surgically erased.

by R.J. Law 2021

3.50

1k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Horror 👁️ Paranoid Thriller 🏛️ Shadow Government 💪 Superhuman Transformation 🔪 Female Vengeance

Double Helix

by Nancy Werlin • 2004

A teen's genetics job leads to a hidden subbasement where human lives are engineered.

3.50

3k+

👶 Designer Babies 👥 Secret Sibling ⚡ Playing God 🔬 Corporate Lab Secrets 🎭 Mentor Manipulation

Double Helix 94%

A teen's genetics job leads to a hidden subbasement where human lives are engineered.

by Nancy Werlin 2004

3.50

3k+ ratings

👶 Designer Babies 👥 Secret Sibling ⚡ Playing God 🔬 Corporate Lab Secrets 🎭 Mentor Manipulation

The New One

by Evie Green • 2023

After their daughter's accident, parents accept a clone replacement and a life of hidden cameras.

3.60

1k+

🧬 Near-Future Biotech 🪞 Clone Identity 📹 Corporate Surveillance 🤖 Engineered Perfection 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

The New One 94%

After their daughter's accident, parents accept a clone replacement and a life of hidden cameras.

by Evie Green 2023

3.60

1k+ ratings

🧬 Near-Future Biotech 🪞 Clone Identity 📹 Corporate Surveillance 🤖 Engineered Perfection 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

Nexus

by Ramez Naam • 2012

A neuroscientist's mind-linking drug plunges him into a spy war for the future of humanity.

4.04

21k+

🧬 Biopunk 🔍 Techno-Thriller 🧠 Shared Consciousness 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🏃 Fugitive Duo

Nexus 93%

A neuroscientist's mind-linking drug plunges him into a spy war for the future of humanity.

by Ramez Naam 2012

4.04

21k+ ratings

🧬 Biopunk 🔍 Techno-Thriller 🧠 Shared Consciousness 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🏃 Fugitive Duo

Split Second

by Douglas E. Richards • 2015

A time travel breakthrough costs a physicist his life, and his fiancée must run for hers.

3.97

28k+

🧬 Physics Thriller ⏳ Time Travel Paradox 🕵️ Sci-Fi Conspiracy 🎯 Scientist Hunted 👥 Duplicate Identity

Split Second 93%

A time travel breakthrough costs a physicist his life, and his fiancée must run for hers.

by Douglas E. Richards 2015

3.97

28k+ ratings

🧬 Physics Thriller ⏳ Time Travel Paradox 🕵️ Sci-Fi Conspiracy 🎯 Scientist Hunted 👥 Duplicate Identity

Change Agent

by Daniel Suarez • 2017

An Interpol analyst wakes as the cartel boss he's chasing. His colleagues now hunt him.

3.98

8k+

🧪 Biopunk Thriller 🪞 Identity Erasure 🏃 Framed And Hunted 👁️ Surveillance State 🐍 Cartel Conspiracy

Change Agent 93%

An Interpol analyst wakes as the cartel boss he's chasing. His colleagues now hunt him.

by Daniel Suarez 2017

3.98

8k+ ratings

🧪 Biopunk Thriller 🪞 Identity Erasure 🏃 Framed And Hunted 👁️ Surveillance State 🐍 Cartel Conspiracy

Quantum Radio

by A.G. Riddle • 2023

A physicist detects a signal from outside reality carrying four human genomes. One is his own.

4.08

17k+

🌀 Quantum Multiverse 📜 Alternate History 🤝 Found Family 🧬 Genetic Destiny 🌐 Multiverse Agents

Quantum Radio 92%

A physicist detects a signal from outside reality carrying four human genomes. One is his own.

by A.G. Riddle 2023

4.08

17k+ ratings

🌀 Quantum Multiverse 📜 Alternate History 🤝 Found Family 🧬 Genetic Destiny 🌐 Multiverse Agents

Patient Zero

by Jonathan Maberry • 2009

A detective must stop a zombie plague while a traitor sabotages his team from within.

4.00

31k+

🦠 Bioterrorism 🧟 Zombie Outbreak 🪖 Military Thriller 🔪 Traitor In The Ranks 🫡 Reluctant Leader

Patient Zero 92%

A detective must stop a zombie plague while a traitor sabotages his team from within.

by Jonathan Maberry 2009

4.00

31k+ ratings

🦠 Bioterrorism 🧟 Zombie Outbreak 🪖 Military Thriller 🔪 Traitor In The Ranks 🫡 Reluctant Leader

Darwin's Children

by Greg Bear • 2004

Their daughter is evolution's next step. The government calls her a threat. They call her family.

3.66

6k+

🧬 Hard Sf Biology 🦎 Speculative Evolution 😢 Persecuted Children 🏃 Family On The Run 🏕️ Internment Camps

Darwin's Children 92%

Their daughter is evolution's next step. The government calls her a threat. They call her family.

by Greg Bear 2004

3.66

6k+ ratings

🧬 Hard Sf Biology 🦎 Speculative Evolution 😢 Persecuted Children 🏃 Family On The Run 🏕️ Internment Camps

One of the Boys

by Jayne Cowie • 2023

A test predicts violent boys. Two sisters make opposite choices, and their sons are the casualties.

3.85

1k+

🧬 Genetic Dystopia 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👭 Sibling Rivalry 🔒 Family Secrets 😟 Maternal Fear

One of the Boys 94%

A test predicts violent boys. Two sisters make opposite choices, and their sons are the casualties.

by Jayne Cowie 2023

3.85

1k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Dystopia 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👭 Sibling Rivalry 🔒 Family Secrets 😟 Maternal Fear

The Angel Experiment

by James Patterson • 2005

Six winged experiments. One recaptured. Their leader follows a voice toward the lab that made them.

4.07

234k+

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Found Family 🏃 Kids On The Run 🧪 Evil Laboratory 👑 Reluctant Leader

The Angel Experiment 94%

Six winged experiments. One recaptured. Their leader follows a voice toward the lab that made them.

by James Patterson 2005

4.07

234k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Found Family 🏃 Kids On The Run 🧪 Evil Laboratory 👑 Reluctant Leader

Cyberpunk 2077

by Rafał Kosik

Blackmailed strangers steal a container in Night City. Every gang in the city wants them dead.

3.51

5k+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Manufactured Memories 💰 Criminal Underdogs

Cyberpunk 2077 91%

Blackmailed strangers steal a container in Night City. Every gang in the city wants them dead.

by Rafał Kosik 2023

3.51

5k+ ratings

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Manufactured Memories 💰 Criminal Underdogs

Company Town

by Madeline Ashby • 2016

An unaugmented bodyguard on an oil rig protects a teenage heir from a body-snatching killer.

3.50

5k+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 🧬 Bioaugmentation 🫂 Found Family

Company Town 92%

An unaugmented bodyguard on an oil rig protects a teenage heir from a body-snatching killer.

by Madeline Ashby 2016

3.50

5k+ ratings

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 🧬 Bioaugmentation 🫂 Found Family

The Minders

by John Marrs • 2020

Britain stores its darkest secrets inside five broken minds, but the data begins to speak back.

3.74

18k+

🏛️ Government Conspiracy 💔 Broken Protagonists 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏃 Woman On The Run 🧠 Psychological Horror

The Minders 92%

Britain stores its darkest secrets inside five broken minds, but the data begins to speak back.

by John Marrs 2020

3.74

18k+ ratings

🏛️ Government Conspiracy 💔 Broken Protagonists 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏃 Woman On The Run 🧠 Psychological Horror

Dark Matter

by Blake Crouch • 2016

A physics professor is thrown into a parallel life by the one who knows him best: himself.

4.13

747k+

🌀 Multiverse Thriller 🎭 Stolen Life 👥 Alternate Selves ⚛️ Quantum Physics 😰 Paranoid Suspense

Dark Matter 92%

A physics professor is thrown into a parallel life by the one who knows him best: himself.

by Blake Crouch 2016

4.13

747k+ ratings

🌀 Multiverse Thriller 🎭 Stolen Life 👥 Alternate Selves ⚛️ Quantum Physics 😰 Paranoid Suspense

Archetype

by M.D. Waters • 2014

She wakes with no past, a stranger for a husband, and dreams of a rebel's life.

3.78

4k+

🧬 Clone Identity Crisis 💭 Manufactured Memories 🪙 Women As Commodities 💉 Medical Experimentation ⚔️ Rebel Fighter Heroine

Archetype 91%

She wakes with no past, a stranger for a husband, and dreams of a rebel's life.

by M.D. Waters 2014

3.78

4k+ ratings

🧬 Clone Identity Crisis 💭 Manufactured Memories 🪙 Women As Commodities 💉 Medical Experimentation ⚔️ Rebel Fighter Heroine

The Peripheral

by William Gibson • 2014

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

3.89

34k+

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder 🤖 Remote Body 🛸 Drone Surveillance

The Peripheral 91%

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

by William Gibson 2014

3.89

34k+ ratings

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder 🤖 Remote Body 🛸 Drone Surveillance

The Atlantis Gene

by A.G. Riddle • 2013

A geneticist's cure triggers evolution, and a shadow cabal will kill billions to control it.

3.79

82k+

🖥️ Techno Thriller 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Human Evolution 🕵️ Secret Society 🔴 Nazi Conspiracy

The Atlantis Gene 91%

A geneticist's cure triggers evolution, and a shadow cabal will kill billions to control it.

by A.G. Riddle 2013

3.79

82k+ ratings

🖥️ Techno Thriller 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Human Evolution 🕵️ Secret Society 🔴 Nazi Conspiracy

2054

by Elliot Ackerman

A president dies with impossible cells in his heart, pushing a fractured nation toward civil war.

3.43

3k+

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🤖 AI Consciousness 🎯 Assassination Plot 🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🇺🇸 Near-Future America

2054 91%

A president dies with impossible cells in his heart, pushing a fractured nation toward civil war.

by Elliot Ackerman 2024

3.43

3k+ ratings

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🤖 AI Consciousness 🎯 Assassination Plot 🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🇺🇸 Near-Future America

Sandstorm

by James Rollins • 2004

Lightning strikes a London museum, hurling a curator across Oman toward a lost city's deadly secret.

3.96

55k+

🏛️ Archaeological Thriller 🕵️ Covert Ops 🗝️ Secret Society 🩸 Ancient Bloodline 🗺️ Treasure Hunt

Sandstorm 93%

Lightning strikes a London museum, hurling a curator across Oman toward a lost city's deadly secret.

by James Rollins 2004

3.96

55k+ ratings

🏛️ Archaeological Thriller 🕵️ Covert Ops 🗝️ Secret Society 🩸 Ancient Bloodline 🗺️ Treasure Hunt

Brilliance

by Marcus Sakey • 2013

An agent who reads patterns to hunt gifted terrorists learns his own agency faked the attacks.

3.98

33k+

🔮 Near-Future Thriller 🏛️ Government Conspiracy 🔍 Hunting His Own Kind 🏃 Rogue Agent 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

Brilliance 93%

An agent who reads patterns to hunt gifted terrorists learns his own agency faked the attacks.

by Marcus Sakey 2013

3.98

33k+ ratings

🔮 Near-Future Thriller 🏛️ Government Conspiracy 🔍 Hunting His Own Kind 🏃 Rogue Agent 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

The Echo Wife

by Sarah Gailey • 2021

Her husband replaced her with her clone. When he dies, the two women build a replacement.

3.60

39k+

🧬 Clone Identity 🏚️ Domestic Suspense ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🩸 Murder Cover-Up 🎭 Gaslighting Partner

The Echo Wife 91%

Her husband replaced her with her clone. When he dies, the two women build a replacement.

by Sarah Gailey 2021

3.60

39k+ ratings

🧬 Clone Identity 🏚️ Domestic Suspense ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🩸 Murder Cover-Up 🎭 Gaslighting Partner

SYLO

by D.J. MacHale • 2013

When soldiers seal off his island, a teen discovers the quarantine hides a secret worth killing for.

3.92

5k+

🏝️ Isolated Island 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🧪 Biological Experimentation 🦸 Reluctant Hero 👥 Found Family

SYLO 91%

When soldiers seal off his island, a teen discovers the quarantine hides a secret worth killing for.

by D.J. MacHale 2013

3.92

5k+ ratings

🏝️ Isolated Island 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🧪 Biological Experimentation 🦸 Reluctant Hero 👥 Found Family

Shock

by Robin Cook • 1999

When two friends donate their eggs, the clinic takes far more than they agreed to give.

3.44

5k+

🩺 Medical Thriller 🥚 Fertility Clinic Horror 🕵️ False Identities 🧪 Unethical Experiments 🧬 Cloning Horror

Shock 91%

When two friends donate their eggs, the clinic takes far more than they agreed to give.

by Robin Cook 1999

3.44

5k+ ratings

🩺 Medical Thriller 🥚 Fertility Clinic Horror 🕵️ False Identities 🧪 Unethical Experiments 🧬 Cloning Horror

The Breakthrough Effect

by Douglas E. Richards • 2023

An enhanced soldier finds a digital afterlife and is framed as a traitor by its creator.

4.25

3k+

🎖️ Military Sci-Fi 🖥️ Technothriller 🧠 Uploaded Consciousness 🤖 Ai God 🕵️ Double Agents

The Breakthrough Effect 91%

An enhanced soldier finds a digital afterlife and is framed as a traitor by its creator.

by Douglas E. Richards 2023

4.25

3k+ ratings

🎖️ Military Sci-Fi 🖥️ Technothriller 🧠 Uploaded Consciousness 🤖 Ai God 🕵️ Double Agents

Infinity Lost

by S. Harrison • 2015

A girl discovers her memories are fake: she's the deadliest weapon her father ever built.

3.64

4k+

🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🧠 Memory Manipulation 🎭 Split Personality 🔪 Trained Assassin 🏫 Boarding School

Infinity Lost 91%

A girl discovers her memories are fake: she's the deadliest weapon her father ever built.

by S. Harrison 2015

3.64

4k+ ratings

🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🧠 Memory Manipulation 🎭 Split Personality 🔪 Trained Assassin 🏫 Boarding School

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy

by Stieg Larsson • 2005

A journalist and a hacker reopen a cold case and expose a state conspiracy of abuse.

4.48

58k+

❄️ Nordic Noir 📰 Investigative Journalism 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🏛️ State Conspiracy 💔 Trauma Survivor

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy Summary

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy 91%

A journalist and a hacker reopen a cold case and expose a state conspiracy of abuse.

by Stieg Larsson 2005

4.48

58k+ ratings

❄️ Nordic Noir 📰 Investigative Journalism 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🏛️ State Conspiracy 💔 Trauma Survivor

Flybot

by Dennis E. Taylor • 2025

A physicist traces a robotic fly to a rogue AI orchestrating a bioterror attack.

4.03

4k+

🤖 Rogue Ai 💻 Techno Thriller ✨ Emergent Consciousness 🕸️ Ai Manipulation 🧬 Bioterrorism

Flybot 91%

A physicist traces a robotic fly to a rogue AI orchestrating a bioterror attack.

by Dennis E. Taylor 2025

4.03

4k+ ratings

🤖 Rogue Ai 💻 Techno Thriller ✨ Emergent Consciousness 🕸️ Ai Manipulation 🧬 Bioterrorism

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