Marco's Millions

10 best books like Marco's Millions (William Sleator): Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback, Micro, The Hellbound Heart, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Full Throttle, Snowblind, Brave New World Revisited, The Silence, The Great Train Robbery, The Compound

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
AuthorRobyn Davidson
ISBN0679762876
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Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: “I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned...
Micro
AuthorMichael Crichton
ISBN0062094734
In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company—only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic,...
The Hellbound Heart
AuthorClive Barker
ISBN0061002828
Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
AuthorAlvin Schwartz
ISBN0590431978
This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright.

There is a story here for everyone—skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her...
Full Throttle
AuthorJoe Hill
ISBN0062200674
In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A little...
Snowblind
AuthorChristopher Golden
ISBN1250015316
In Christopher Golden’s first horror novel in more than a decade--a work reminiscent of early Stephen King--Snowblind updates the ghost story for the modern age.

The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards...but never one like this. Icy figures danced in...
Brave New World Revisited
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060898526
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the...
The Silence
AuthorTim Lebbon
ISBN1781168814
In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death.

Deaf for many years, Ally knows...
The Great Train Robbery
AuthorMichael Crichton
ISBN0553129198
Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could...
The Compound
AuthorS.A. Bodeen
ISBN0312370156
Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they've become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy.

For Eli, no amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, his father...
Half Way Home
AuthorHugh Howey
ISBN0982611935
Less than sixty kids awaken on a distant planet. The colony ship they arrived on is aflame. The rest of their contingent is dead. They've only received half their training, and they are being asked to conquer an entire planet. Before they can, however, they must first survive each other. In this gritty...
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