Books like Savages by K. J. Parker

In Dan Simmons’ chilling historical adventure, the Franklin expedition’s steamships Terror and Erebus are trapped in the Arctic for two years, where crew face starvation, mutiny, and a nameless terror lurking in the ice.

Tom Ripley is hired to travel to Italy and persuade a wayward son to return home, but he becomes obsessed with taking the boy’s life, identity and wealth.

Jedi Master Mace Windu is called to save his former Padawan, Depa Billaba, who has vanished into the jungles of Haruun Kal, where the war between Republic and Separatist forces is raging.

A sweeping alternate history epic of the Second Civil War, featuring characters like Abraham Lincoln and Stonewall Jackson, and a thrilling clash of ideas and ideals across the United States' frontier wilderness.

A tale of war and humanity's final fight for survival in a desperate bid to end the reign of a seemingly unstoppable foe, from the author of the Worldwar series.

Invasion, Survival, and the Fight for Survival

A moving true story of Dita Kraus, an Auschwitz prisoner who braved the dangers of the Holocaust to keep books alive for her fellow inmates.

In the Star Wars saga, the Kyber Temple on Jedha falls under Imperial control. Baze, Chirrut, and Saw Gerrera work together to defend the city’s inhabitants and plot the Empire’s downfall.

When a crew investigates a crystalline planet rich in dark matter, murder and a vanished crewmate trigger a hunt for a threat that science cannot explain.

Princess Leia's children are kidnapped, and she tracks the kidnappers to a refugee ship. Along the way, she discovers a powerful Imperial officer planning to restore the Empire, and Han and Luke investigate a group of missing Jedi, facing an explosive showdown with an alien cult leader.

A war-torn kingdom faces the looming apocalypse, as the future of the world hangs in the balance between a prophetic prophecy and a treacherous plot. A father’s legacy and a thousandfold thought await the brave Anasurimbor Kellhus to determine the fate of the world. The war rages on between the Men of theTusk and the Scylvendi barbarian, as the world’s fate is decided by the last man standing.

Ezra Bridger, a fourteen-year-old survivor on Lothal, is drawn into a deadly underground Arena Day tournament where he partners with bounty hunter Bossk to outwit an endless Trooper fleet.

In 1914 Vienna, medical student Lucius enlists in World War I, only to find himself in a frozen field hospital amid a typhus outbreak, where he must learn brutal makeshift medicine from a lone nurse and confront the war’s harsh realities.

"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.

A leveled early‑reader retelling of the iconic Battle of the Death Star, featuring full‑color illustrations of Luke, Vader, Han and other familiar characters.

Set in modern Vatican and the Romanian highlands, the thriller follows Papal secretary Father Colin Michener as he navigates political intrigue, murder, and the revealed Third Secret of Fatima that threatens to change the Church.

The Blood of the Lamb traces Don Wanderhop’s life from his immigrant Calvinist childhood in 1950s Chicago through the successive losses of brother, faith, wife, and daughter, reflecting the author’s own tragic experiences.

Luke Skywalker, a hero of the New Republic, becomes ensnared in a treacherous plot to restore the Empire under Lord Shadowspawn.