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The Blake Crouch books in order take you from the epic futuristic Wayward Pines to bestselling thrillers like Dark Matter and Recursion.Oct 18, 2014 In the opening pages of Pines, the first book in Blake Crouch’s incredible Wayward Pines trilogy, secret service agent Ethan Burke has arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks earlier. Although he wakes in incredible pain, he’s quick to note that something in. Night Shyamalan is one creator of “Wayward Pines” on Fox, which is based on a series of novels by Blake Crouch.
Blake Crouch is an American writer who instantly became an international bestselling author due to his popular Wayward Pines series, which has been recently turned into a 10 episode mini-series directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Matt Dillon (btw, we’re still hoping for a second season…).
I am usually not a cliche person, but I’ve got to say it: if you haven’t at least heard of the Wayward Pines TV series, which aired on Fox all over the world wherever Fox is available on cable TV, you’ve been living under the proverbial rock.
This series took the world by storm, and I can safely say that most people who have watched the episodes have also purchased the trilogy because they got hooked on it – and with very good reason. It is a series/trilogy like no other. Crime, mystery, dystopia, sci-fi and post-apocalyptic all in one, a taste for literally everyone. Here are all the Blake Crouch books in order of publication for his series and his standalone novels.
New Blake Crouch Books
Summer Frost, 2019
Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite Series
- Desert Places (Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite #1), 2004
- Locked Doors (Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite #2), 2005
- Break You (Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite #3), 2011
Wayward Pines Trilogy
- Pines (Wayward Pines #1), 2012
- Wayward (Wayward Pines #2), 2013
- The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3), 2014
Standalone Novels And Short Stories
- Abandon, 2009
- Snowbound, 2010
- Famous, 2010
- *69, 2010 (short story)
- Remaking, 2010 (short story)
- On the Good, Red Road, 2010 (short story)
- Draculas, 2010 (co-authored with 3 other horror authors)
- Shining Rock, 2010 (short story)
- Perfect Little Town, 2010 (novella)
- The Meteorologist, 2010 (short story)
- Unconditional, 2010 (short story)
- Run, 2011
- Hunting Season, short story
- Eerie, 2012 (co-authored with brother Jordan Crouch)
- Good Behavior, 2016
- Dark Matter, 2016
- Recursion, 2019
- Summer Frost, 2019 (novella)
About Blake Crouch
Blake Crouch (website) was born in 1978 near Statesville in North Carolina. In his childhood, he wrote stories that he would tell his brother to scare them. In 2000 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with degrees in English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He wrote his first two books in 2004, which is the year when he became a full-time writer. Desert Places and Locked Doors were published in 2004 and 20
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His novels have sold so far over a million copies and have been translated into over 20 languages. The book Pines has been nominated in 2013 for the Best Paperback Original Thriller Award by the ITW.
The author’s latest novel is called Dark Matter, a standalone novel published end of 2016. The book took the world by storm. It was ingenious, different from anything else out there and it became an instant hit. It is a sci-fi thriller of epic proportions crossing boundaries and timelines. I like the beginning of the book, when Jason Dessen was asked, “Are you happy with your life?” just before getting kidnapped by an unknown assailant. This started a chain of events that left my head spinning and made me think about the book long after I’ve read it.
Blake Crouch spent two years working on Dark Matter, but he was really working on it (at least in his mind) for the last 10 years. It was such a massive project. The science behind Dark Matter is pretty solid. It encompasses quantum mechanics in an easy-to-digest form for everyone. I mean, quantum mechanics is a dense field of science, but even if you had no clue about the Schroedinger’s Cat, by reading the book, you will get gotten the bare minimum of the gist of what makes quantum mechanics so interesting today. Then the book has an action-packed storyline, and, of course, there is love…
Now, of course, while Dark Matter is very out there (in a good way), so is Wayward Pines. The simple idea of it is mindboggling. The author Blake Crouch definitely has a very vivid and engaging imagination. Reading the Blake Crouch books in order takes you to a strange psychedelic world (worlds, really) where everything is possible. And what’s best, the science is pretty sold there too.
While the author has written several standalone novels and a few series, I think most people will know him mostly for his Wayward Pines trilogy which became a bestselling two-season TV series watched by people all around the world, which was adapted by M. Night Shyamalan. The books in the series themselves have been sold internationally as well.
Good Behavior, his second standalone novel of the year 2016, is, in fact, a republication of the Letty Dobesh Chronicles novellas in one book. It was recently also turned into a TNT television series starring Michelle Docker.
Recursion, the author’s standalone book in 2019 is a science-fiction thriller story about memories and how they can invade a person’s like and their mind. And how science can have dire unintended consequences even when done with good intentions.
Currently, the author is living southwest Colorado with his wife and three children, working as usual on a new book.
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“The tale is interesting, captivating, and suspenseful. The author includes a love triangle that heightens the intrigue and conflict, and his concept of a planned society seems plausible.”Blake Crouch is the author of more than a dozen bestselling suspense, mystery, and horror novels.
The Last Town, the conclusion to the Wayward Pines Series, is scheduled to debut as a major television series on Fox in the winter of 2015.Wayward Pines was the quintessential American small town. With its beautiful homes and perfect people it seemed like the ideal place to live and raise a family. But that’s the problem—it was too perfect.Everything in Wayward Pines was planned and no one needed to worry about wanting for anything. Food, jobs, even companions were all taken care of the by central authority; however, while there were many picturesque roads crisscrossing the town, none of them led out of Wayward Pines. An electrified fence surrounded the burg, causing one to wonder: Was the fence there to keep the residents in or to keep something else out?David Pilcher created this idyllic setting, as well as its occupants, in the mountains of Idaho. In a specially constructed superstructure dug deep into the side of a huge mountain, hand-picked people from the 21st century were frozen in special tubes. Pilcher convinced the volunteers the human race was doomed, thus the willing participants believed their sacrifice was a chance to save humanity.When the people awoke from their frozen slumbers in the year 3813, they discovered they were the only humans remaining.
What they didn’t know was there was a shocking secret Pilcher kept hidden from this last earthly colony, one that would change their future.As the town’s residents adjusted to their new lives, they discovered things were not as they remembered. There were no iPhones, iPads, Facebook, or Twitter. People actually interacted as they did in the 20th century—face to face. No TV or mail. There were phones but only within the town.
There was no connection with the rest of the world. The other stark difference: each person is assigned to a house, a job, and given a husband or wife, without regard to who they are or what they did in their previous lives. Their sole purpose? To perpetuate the species.In an interesting twist, several residents were chosen as nomads. They were sent out beyond the fence to determine exactly what lies beyond. Are there any other humans beings remaining?
Any other signs of life? Years later only one returns to Wayward Pines, and what he discovered on his journey is shocking.The tale is interesting, captivating, and suspenseful. The author includes a love triangle that heightens the intrigue and conflict, and his concept of a planned society seems plausible.Eventually Pilcher’s secret is revealed to the townspeople. In an act of revenge, Pilcher does the unconscionable—he turns off the electrified fence and opens the only gate to the town. The result is horrifying creatures invade and attack the enclave and its residents.
This act of revenge by Pilcher, which he justified by his irrational belief that the townsfolk no longer thought of him as a god, begins a cycle of horror and violence that is terrifying and shocking.The Last Town is well written, its characters interesting and believable. The ending is somewhat surprising, but nonetheless satisfying. Blake Crouch leaves the door open for another installment of Wayward Pines—or at least a spinoff.