The 5th Wave has been compared to a 2006 novel by what American writer?
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The 5th Wave (novel) The 5th Wave is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Rick Yancey, published in 2013, and is the first installment in The 5th Wave trilogy. Critics have compared the book favorably to "The Hunger Games" and "The Road", and noted that it "should do for aliens what "Twilight" did for vampires." Sony Pictures released a film adaptation in January 2016.
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The Road The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey
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Claire Messud Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel "The Emperor's Children" (2006).
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Casualties of Peace Casualties of Peace, published in 1966, is Irish writer Edna O'Brien's fifth novel.
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Storm Thief Storm Thief is a 2006 dystopian science-fiction novel written by Chris Wooding and published by Scholastic Books. It also has elements of the Gothic, tech-punk, and alternate history genres. It is set on a futuristic island-city known as Orokos, which is plagued by deadly "probability storms." It features a group of outcasts on the run, a mysterious artifact, a golem with a shadowed past, an underground resistance movement, a corrupt government, the downfall of two civilizations, and a seabird. The novel displays a number of literary themes, including fate, free will, and redemption. It received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.
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Wave (Deraniyagala book) Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami is a memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala based on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. It was first published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. It recounts the story of the author's life before the tsunami struck the coast, and how it changed dramatically after the disaster. It is written in the first-person narrative style. The book received several awards and positive reviews from critics.
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Cell (novel) Cell is an apocalyptic horror novel published by American author Stephen King in 2006. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals.
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Sam Savage Sam Savage (born November 9, 1940) is an American novelist and poet, best known for his 2006 novel "". Other published works are "The Cry of the Sloth", "The Criminal Life of Effie O", and "Glass".
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Maura Stone Maura Stone (born 1955) is a contemporary American author. With the publication of her first novel, "Five-Star FLEECING" in December 2009, she was described as a "promising new star in the literary world" by the "Queens Gazette" on 6/2/2010. The book was reviewed on 2/8/2010 by renowned literary critic Harriet Klausner who labeled it as a "superb scathing satire of the hospitality business." It was also reviewed by the Midwest Book Review on 4/3/2010 as a "humorous delve into the underworld of class, highly recommended." Five-Star FLEECING is the winner of the 2011 National Indie Excellence Award in the category of comedy.
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Matt Thorne Matthew "Matt" Thorne (born 1974) is an English novelist, writer, and journalist.
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The Fifth Horseman (novel) The Fifth Horseman is a 1980 techno-thriller novel written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The story revolves around Libyan leader Gaddafi holding New York City hostage with the threat of setting off a hidden nuclear bomb. The book had such a shocking effect that the French President cancelled the sale of nuclear reactors to Libya, even though they were meant for peaceful purposes.
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Ian Caldwell Ian Caldwell is an American novelist known for co-authoring the 2004 novel "The Rule of Four". His second book, "The Fifth Gospel", was published in 2015.
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William T. Vollmann William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel "Europe Central".
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Adam Fawer Adam Fawer (born 1970 in New York City) is an American novelist. "Improbable", his first novel, has been translated into eighteen languages and won the 2006 International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel. His second novel, "Empathy", has been published in 2008 in German, Japanese and Turkish. His third novel, "Oz", has been published in 2016 in Turkish only. Unlike the first two novels, it received generally negative reviews from critics and readers.
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Jonathan Trigell Jonathan Trigell (born 1974) is a British author. His first novel, "Boy A", won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004, the Waverton Good Read Award and the inaugural World Book Day Prize in 2008.
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Burned (Hopkins novel) Burned is a young adult novel written by American author Ellen Hopkins and published in April 2006. Like all of Ellen Hopkin's works, the novel is unusual for its free verse format.
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Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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Alden Jones Alden Jones (born June 5, 1972) is an American writer.
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The Zigzag Way The Zigzag Way is a 2004 novel by Anita Desai. The novel is about an American academic and writer who goes with his girlfriend to Mexico and rediscovers his passion for fiction writing. The novel was received with mixed reviews. Liz Hoggard of "The Guardian" emphasized how the characters often get overwhelmed by the descriptions of the scenery losing the patience of the reader. Similarly, "The Scotsman" emphasized how the novel often is distant from the reader, often providing more information than the reader needs and not engaging with the characters.
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The Chamber (novel) The Chamber (1994) is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham. It is Grisham's fifth novel.
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A Dirty Job A Dirty Job is the ninth novel by Christopher Moore, published in 2006. While reflecting the author's absurdist tendencies, the content of the novel draws in no small part from his own experiences in tending to the needs of close family and friends in the stages of dying.
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The Poet (novel) The Poet is the fifth novel by award-winning American author Michael Connelly. Published in 1996, it is the first of Connelly's novels not to feature Detective Harry Bosch and first to feature Crime Reporter Jack McEvoy. A sequel, "The Narrows", was published in 2004. "The Poet" won the 1997 Dilys Award.