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A breathless, body-hopping thriller that wraps deep existential melancholy in a relentless game of cat and mouse. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Touch.

  • paranoiac
  • relentless
  • shadowy
  • tense
  • existential
  1. 01

    The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    Claire North

    A sweeping, time-looping cat-and-mouse thriller that wrestles with the crushing weight of infinity and the fierce bonds of rivalry.

    Shares:
    • existential
    • philosophical
    • urgent
    • melancholic
  2. 02

    Revenge

    Natalie Fox

    A deliciously soapy, high-angst battle of wills where icy vengeance melts into consuming passion.

    Shares:
    • tense
    • cynical
  3. 03

    City of miracles

    Robert Jackson Bennett

    A relentless, grief-fueled revenge thriller wrapped in the dying magic of a broken world.

    Shares:
    • melancholic
  4. 04

    The emperor's blades

    Brian Staveley

    A gritty, high-stakes trial by fire where grief is forged into a weapon through grueling training and shadowy political intrigue.

    Shares:
    • shadowy
    • tense
  5. 05

    The Rage Of Dragons

    Evan Winter

    A blistering, adrenaline-fueled descent into the crucible of vengeance where an outmatched underdog weaponizes his own suffering.

    Feels:
    • adrenaline-fueled
    • blood-soaked
    • desperate
  6. 06

    Dark Mirror

    Daphne Clair

    A soapy, high-angst vintage romance where righteous fury melts into a scandalous, guilt-laced forbidden attraction.

    Shares:
    • tense
  7. 07

    The Peripheral

    William Gibson

    A gritty, mind-bending plunge into a rusted-out future where virtual gig work bleeds into high-stakes, cross-temporal murder.

    Shares:
    • tense
    • cynical
  8. 08

    Matriarch

    Karen Traviss

    A heavy, foreboding sci-fi journey where the burden of immortality meets the grim realities of ecological collapse and righteous vengeance.

    Shares:
    • tense
    • urgent
  9. 09

    Slade House

    David Stephen Mitchell

    A deliciously sinister puzzle-box of creeping dread where every door you open only locks you further inside.

    Feels:
    • dread-soaked
    • claustrophobic
    • uncanny
  10. 10

    A Secret Vengeance

    Miranda Lee

    A scandalous whirlwind of mistaken identity, sudden obsession, and the dramatic consequences of unearthing family secrets.

    Shares:
    • tense
    • urgent
  11. 11

    Claimed for the Italian's Revenge

    Natalie Rivers

    A high-stakes, emotionally turbulent battle of wills where vengeance is quickly derailed by undeniable, consuming desire.

    Shares:
    • tense
  12. 12

    Surface Detail

    Iain M. Banks

    A sprawling, darkly funny, and brutally philosophical space opera that asks what happens when a utopian society goes to war against the concept of Hell.

    Shares:
    • philosophical

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