Books like Ruins by Dan Wells

A weary father and his young son journey across a bleak, post‑apocalyptic America, battling cannibals, starvation, and a harsh winter in a desperate quest for safety and a glimpse of remaining civilization.

A covert scientific team ventures into the isolated Area X, a reclaimed landscape rife with anomalies and unknown life. As discoveries deepen, hidden motives and secrets threaten to unravel the expedition and alter humanity’s understanding of nature.

Nothing, in all it's entirety.

Stephen King’s Revival follows a charismatic preacher’s rise and fall in a small New England town, exploring music, addiction, and religious fanaticism amid family drama and supernatural mystery.

During a Mexican vacation, two couples lose a friend and delve into a jungle ruin, only to confront a terrifying, ancient presence.

In a world ravaged by successive alien attacks, Cassie navigates a solitary highway to escape the terrorizing Them. When she meets the enigmatic Evan Walker, hope and danger collide as she must decide whether to trust him and fight for survival.

A prequel to The Maze Runner series, introducing Mark in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by a deadly virus.

A teenage time traveler must solve puzzles and navigate dangerous space colonies in an epic adventure story set in the distant past for young adults who love science fiction and fantasy, including young adult, young adult fantasy, and space colonies.

Set in a quiet 1950s American suburb, two orphaned sisters, Meg and Susan, are held captive in their aunt’s basement as her deteriorating mental health begins to poison their family and the surrounding community.

In an apocalyptic near‑future, a mother and her two small children navigate a river blindfolded to avoid a terrifying entity, while the story features profanity and graphic violence.

In a galaxy powered by the current, Cyra and Akos must navigate the treacherous world of survival and the bonds of family to overcome their enemies and find their own paths of strength and love.

A young boy discovers dangerous schemes at his prestigious boarding school.

An engaging nonfiction look at contemporary archaeologists, following their travels from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and Machu Picchu as they uncover stories of slaves, Ice Age hunters, soldiers, children of the first century, Chinese warrior women, sunken fleets, and mummies.

Teenaged soldier Noemi and abandoned robot Abel reluctantly team up for a perilous interstellar voyage that threatens to end a planetary war, only to discover that trust and truth are the true weapons of battle.

In a post‑apocalyptic future, Pressia battles outside the protective Dome, using ancient clues to free the Wretches from their destructive fusions.

Two brothers and their sister, who have been living in hiding after being abandoned by their 'designed' robots, must fight for survival when their sanctuary is discovered.

Gene and Sissy must survive a deadly virus and protect a cure while escaping a train full of hunters and vampires. Their journey tests loyalty, love, and the hope of turning blood‑thirsty creatures back into humans.

In the Ruins, Prince Sanglant and Liath confront a devastating cataclysm in the world of Wendar, battling natural disaster and political upheaval as they strive to restore daylight and order to a fractured realm.

Three siblings battle a looming robot war, fighting for freedom when they are forced to split up and face the danger alone.

Siblings Nick, Kevin and Cass join a rebel camp to push back against a robot takeover and free their parents, but the leader’s ruthless plan threatens their own safety and the future of humanity.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

In a future where a deadly virus threatens New York, a group of young teenagers must band together, exploring tribal bonds and survival tactics to fight the outbreak and protect their world.

In a world reshaped by the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption, Alex and Darla must risk everything to build a resilient community, confronting survival challenges, environmental horror, and social issues.

A young orphan girl, Rhine, embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth behind a mysterious virus and escape her dystopian future.

Charlie, a wealthy yet lonely teen, struggles with dissociative disorder. When his parents buy Rose, a female companion robot, she bonds with his friend David, weaving a tale about family, friends, and technology in Massachusetts.

A pulse-pounding survival story set in a world where humanity is under threat from partially engineered beings, where the very definition of humanity is in question, and where the fate of both humans and partials rests on the survival of a sixteen-year-old girl.

A post‑pandemic wanderer seeks his lost love through a quarantined, virus‑scarred America, navigating gang life and survival in a bleak dystopian landscape.

Una misteriosa amenaza siniestra vincula a desconocidos en Nevada, llevándolos a una carrera contra agentes despiadados que intentan silenciar el oscuro secreto que comparten.