Books like Dark City by Simon Read

When ordinary Londoner Richard Mayhew rescues a bleeding stranger, he is thrust into London Below, a shadowy realm of monsters, angels, and underground society that forces him to fight for survival before he can return home.

Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

In a post‑apocalyptic Moscow, survivors cling to life inside the underground Metro system, where mutated creatures roam and tiny states vie for resources. A young man from VDNKh must venture into the heart of the tunnels to confront a new threat that could decide the fate of all remaining humanity.

In 1970s New York, a wealthy family's split inheritance, a rising punk scene, an obsessive magazine reporter and a Central Park shooting collide during the infamous 1977 blackout—each character’s fate changes forever.

An Underworld at War explores life in Britain’s criminal underworld during World War II, uncovering how soldiers, civilians, and felons navigated the war’s social upheaval.

Minutely detailed, accurate, skilfully marshalled and engagingly written, it is quite the best social chronicle of the period I have read.' SpectatorAn immense and impressive assembly-Must surely remain an invaluable essay in the remembrance of things past. - TimesSuperbly detailed and illustrated. From stirrup pumps to Spam, Norman Longmate's marvellously comprehensive panorama misses nothing. Excellent. - Sunday TelegraphA landmine of information covering every field of civilian life in wartime from the grandeurs of the blitz to the miseries of dried eggs and the six-inch bath.Much of it is extremely interesting; some of it is fascinatingly out-of-the-way; and all of it contributes to building up a true picture of everyday life in England from September 1939 to August 1945. - ObserverFor those who lived through those wartime years, How We Lived Then will be not merely a refreshment of memory-but also an enlargement of experience; how other people we did not meet lived then. - Times Literary Supplement

True‑crime account of the Blackout Ripper’s five‑day murder spree in London during the 1942 air raids, exploring how wartime conditions and a single indiscretion exposed the culprit to the stunned city.