Books like John Dies at the End by David Wong

Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk classic follows hacker Hiro as he confronts a deadly digital drug in a slick, future Metaverse full of hackers, virtual reality, and ancient Sumerian intrigue.

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

When a dying wizard in Discworld attempts to transfer his powers to an unborn boy who turns out to be a daughter, the absurd and witty consequences unfold in Pratchett’s humor‑laden tale.

Flynne, a young woman living in a drug‑reliant city, helps her veteran brother Burton test a new virtual reality game. When the beta test turns into a murder investigation, she discovers a deadly conspiracy that threatens her life.

David Wong’s hilarious horror sequel, *This Book Is Full of Spiders*, follows his midwestern slackers David and John as they tackle a universe‑spanning threat while blending absurd comedy with apocalyptic stakes.

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, to find two missing agents, but soon discovers a town surrounded by electrified fences and a reality that may keep him trapped forever.

A story of power, science, and suspense in a Colorado mansion.

When a shapeshifting entity begins snatching local kids, the quirky friends from *This Book Is Full of Spiders* must crack a bewildering maze of illusion, incompetence, and deceit to save the children.

Harry Harrison’s humor‑laden sci‑fi adventure follows Bill, a farmer’s apprentice turned reluctant Imperial defender, as he battles lizard‑like Chingers and navigates interstellar mishaps aboard the warship Christine Keeler.

A bizarre, humor‑laden horror tale by David Wong featuring a shapeshifting entity and misadventures.

Todd’s nightmare begins when he receives a new dream car with a dangerously wicked past, leading him into a chilling, supernatural adventure.

Alan Dean Foster’s final novel in The Taken trilogy follows commodities broker Marcus Walker and his speech‑enhanced dog George as they flee an alien Vilenjji ship, find themselves billions of miles from Earth, and lead a daring quest to return home while evading relentless extraterrestrial hunters.

Cas Russell, a math prodigy with super‑calculative powers, confronts a mind‑twisting antagonist who threatens her sanity and the world’s free will.

A collection of classic horror and supernatural stories from the 19th century, featuring tales by notable authors like Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ambrose Bierce.

The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley, blends science‑fiction, fantasy, and paranormal elements to craft a fresh speculative narrative that invites readers into an imaginative, genre‑crossing world.

Although the book is named Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig uses this theme sparingly. It is a fairly simple concept: since cyberspace is entirely human-made, there are no natural laws to determine its architecture. While we tend to assume that what is in cyberspace is a given, in fact everything there is a construction based on decisions made by people. What we can and can't do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs that make up the Internet, which both permit and restrict. So while the libertarians among us rail against the idea of government, our freedoms in cyberspace are being determined by an invisible structure that is every bit as restricting as any laws that can come out of a legislature, legitimate or not. Even more important, this invisible code has been written by people we did not elect and who have no formal obligations to us, such as the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or the more recently-developed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It follows that what we will be able to do in the future will be determined by code that will be written tomorrow, and we should be thinking about who will determine what this code will be. [from http://kcoyle.net/lessig.html]

Opening the X-Files...Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line.Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. The cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X."