Books like The anomaly by Michael Rutger

Andy Weir’s debut science‑fiction bestseller follows astronaut Mark Watney, stranded on Mars in 2035, as he uses ingenuity to survive.

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 collection of science fiction short stories about the colonization of Mars

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.

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.

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.

David Grann’s investigative narrative unravels the mystery of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s 1925 disappearance while he sought the legendary Lost City of Z beneath the Amazon’s dense jungle.

In a village surrounded by a fence that keeps the deadly Forest of Hands and Teeth at bay, Mary discovers that the truths she holds are fragile—and that the world beyond the fence may hold the key to her future.

When a research vessel discovers a fragment of a lost continent, a team of scientists and a reality‑TV crew race to explore Henders Island—where an ancient, alternate‑evolution ecosystem threatens Earth’s fragile balance.

When marine archaeologist Jack Howard discovers a clue to St. Paul’s final journey, he and his friend Costas plunge from Sicily into a perilous race against those who will stop at nothing to keep the origins of Christianity hidden.

A gripping thriller that follows an ancient order committed to revealing the truth behind Christ’s miracles as they battle evil forces threatening the world.

A tale that questions whether the world as we know it is real, and follows a child who may hold the key to controlling that very illusion.

"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.

When an expert linguist in Istanbul discovers a hidden manuscript, he must outwit kidnappers and uncover an archaeological mystery that could alter history.

FBI agent Mark Beamon, exiled in the Southwest, pursues a deadly conspiracy after a millionaire family’s murder leads him from a Utah survivalist’s cabin to a cult‑like church and a high‑tech empire.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.