**This list is a spoiler!! If you haven’t seen the show yet, we’d recommend coming back after you have.**

You may be one of many who has been binging the latest TV sensation, Paradise, on Hulu. Starring Sterling K. Brown, James Marsden, and Julianne Nicholson, this is a political thriller that is set in a city-sized underground bunker located in Colorado a few years after a doomsday event and follows a U.S. Secret Service Agent looking for answers regarding the assassination of the President of the United States. While the series has already been renewed for season two, here’s some books you’ll want on your TBR after you finish season one!

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The world as we know it is unrecognizable. Across the world, teenage girls now have the ability to cause severe pain and even death. Soon, a rich Nigerian boy, a foster child with religious parents, an American politician, and a girl in London will have their lives intersect.

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Wool by Hugh Howey

In a dystopian tale where the outside world is poison and all of humanity is in a single silo underground, there are still those who hope to make it outside again. Considered dangerous, these are the people who infect others with optimism and their punishment is to be allowed outside. When the previous sheriff leaves the silo, a mechanic named Juliette is promoted to take his place only to uncover a conspiracy that could kill ever last one of them.

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Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke’s latest assignment is to find two federal agents who went missing in Wayward Pines, Idaho a month ago. Shortly after his arrival, Ethan is in an accident and wakes up in the hospital with no ID, phone, or other belongings. Noticing something strange is happening in Wayward Pines, Ethan can’t contact the outside world, no one believes he is who he says he is, and electric fences surround the town.

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The Passage by Justin Cronin

Amy is a six-year-old orphan who has just been taken by the government for a disturbing experiment. Special Agent Brad Wolgast is sent to rescue Amy and finds himself risking it all to save her. When the experiment goes wrong, Brad helps Amy escape but cannot save society itself. As Amy goes alone in time, she finds that she may be the only one who can save the world.

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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale features a dystopian world of a patriarchal society called the Republic of Gilead in which women are only used to produce children for the elite and are forbidden to read. Offred used to have a normal life with a husband and daughter, a job, and freedom but now she must try to rid herself of her old life as she gets used to a new social order.

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The City & The City by China Mieville

A woman has just been found murdered in a city outside the edge of Europe called Beszel and this case doesn’t appear to be out of the ordinary for Inspector Tyador Borlu. To investigate, Tyador must travel to the decaying city of Beszel and also, it’s complete opposite, the vibrant Ul Qoma. Teaming up with detective Qussim Dhatt of Ul Qoman, the two find an underbelly of nationalists intent on destroying the neighboring city and those who will stop at nothing to combine the two into one. As the two uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they find the most dangerous thing of all could lie between the two cities.

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Under the Dome by Stephen King

The peaceful town of Chester’s Mill, Maine takes an unusual turn in a series of events that makes all hell break loose. A plane has fallen from the sky in flames, a woman loses her hand, a farmer and his tractor explode, and then a pulp-truck crashes. When an invisible barrier appears around the town, things get intense as everyone is after their own safety as well as their own motives, including a politician and a newspaper reporter. As the dome begins to deteriorate and Jim Rennie and the local police try to take things into their own diabolical hands, Iraq War Vet and short order cook, Barbie, and her friends find themselves in race against time to save their small town.

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Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

In a small, isolated town in the mountains, mothers often vanish—disappearing into the clouds. This happened to Vera’s mother when Vera was a small girl. Now, as an adult, Vera and her peers begin to approach motherhood and are left with one burning question. Will be able to stay on land and continue their paths to motherhood or will fate cause them to disappear?

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14 by Peter Clines

Nate has just moved into a new apartment with some rather unusual features such as padlocks on the door, cockroaches, and weird light fixtures. Nate also hates his job, has no money, no girlfriend, and his future looks pretty dim. With the only thing working out in his life being this new affordable place, he’s still not turning a blind eye to some odd occurrences. After he meets some of his new neighbors and notices something weird about each apartment, every single room features it’s own mystery that goes back hundreds of years that could lead to the end of everything in this Los Angeles brownstone.

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

On the same night that Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, died of a heart attack on stage, a flu pandemic hit the city and wiped out most of civilization within weeks. Now, twenty years later, Kirsten Raymonde travels with The Traveling Symphony; a small group of musicians and actors whose mission is to keep art and alive. Upon their arrival in St. Deborah by the Water, the group is forced to face a violent prophet who could wipe them from whatever is left of the world.

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