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Craig DiLouie

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Born

in The United States

June 13

Website

http://www.craigdilouie.com

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Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

Member Since

April 2011

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Craig DiLouie is an author of popular thriller, apocalyptic/horror, and sci-fi/fantasy fiction.

In hundreds of reviews, Craig’s novels have been praised for their strong characters, action, and gritty realism. Each book promises an exciting experience with people you’ll care about in a world that feels real.

These works have been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award, translated into multiple languages, and optioned for film. He is a member of the HWA, International Thriller Writers, and IFWA.

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Congratulations to THE KILLING FLOOR giveaway winners!

Five Goodreads.com readers won the recent giveaway for THE KILLING FLOOR, my new apocalyptic horror novel from Permuted Press. Congratulations to the winners! The books were mailed today, and should arrive within two weeks.

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Craig DiLouie’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 31,101 ratings · 3,692 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors

	Suffer the Children 3.93 avg rating — 4,541 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Episode Thirteen 3.59 avg rating — 4,261 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infection (The Infection, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 3,633 ratings — published 2011 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of Red Peak 3.41 avg rating — 2,807 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tooth and Nail 3.82 avg rating — 2,404 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Floor (The Infection, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 1,102 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One of Us 3.93 avg rating — 1,099 ratings — published 2018 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crash Dive (Crash Dive, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 827 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	STRIKE: A Novel of the Battle of Midway 4.55 avg rating — 706 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silent Running (Crash Dive, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An epistolary novel by Max Brooks (WORLD WAR Z), DEVOLUTION tells the story of the Mount Rainier Massacre through interviews peppering the journal entries of one of the people who was there. This one took me a long time to get the motor of engagement ...more
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Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing The Drift by C.J. Tudor (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
C.J. Tudor’s THE DRIFT is a terrific apocalyptic thriller with clever construction, a cascade of page-turning thriller elements, and a strong thematic focus on how crisis brings people together and tears them apart. The story follows three main narrat ...more
Feb 21, 2023 10:50AM · 3 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Drift by C.J. Tudor. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Drift by C.J. Tudor <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing Icefields by Thomas Wharton (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Thomas Wharton’s CanLit classic ICEFIELDS recently came back to print with a new edition, leading to me discovering it for the first time. It’s quite beautiful, though more a story of a glacier located in Alberta and the park that forms around it tha ...more
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Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War by Paul Avallone	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Written by Paul Avallone, a veteran who spent more than three years in the Afghanistan War as a Green Beret and then as a civilian embedded journalist, TATTOO ZOO is one of the best if not the best war novel of the War on Terror era. The novel begins ...more
May 10, 2022 12:33PM · 4 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Tattoo Zoo by Paul Avallone. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Tattoo Zoo by Paul Avallone <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing Every Arm Outstretched by Phil Halton (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
After reading Phil Halton’s THIS SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PEACE and finding it both courageous (it offered a nonpartisan view of the forming of the Taliban) and engaging, I checked out his other novel, EVERY ARM OUTSTRETCHED. In this novel, we see the San ...more
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Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In THE NEXT CIVIL WAR: DISPATCHES FROM THE AMERICAN FUTURE, Canadian novelist and essayist Stephen Marche examines America’s crumbling political foundations and imagines a series of scenarios that could spark a civil war. As with DON’T LOOK UP, many ...more
Apr 18, 2022 02:39PM · 3 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Next Civil War by Stephen Marche. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Next Civil War by Stephen Marche <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Cixin Liu	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Chinese author Cixin Liu’s Hugo Award-winning THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM is certainly an intriguing piece of science fiction, rich in ideas if thin in plot and characterization. A mixed bag, though on the whole I quite enjoyed it as something bold and or ...more
Apr 18, 2022 02:38PM · 2 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Craig DiLouie rated a book it was amazing Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
With its arresting cover, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX grabbed my attention several times at the bookstore, only to be left on the shelf. Then I grabbed it again, read a few pages, and ended up pretty hooked. This is a terrific story about music, the musi ...more
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“There is a proverb that says America is always 3 days away from revolution. Stop delivering food to the supermarkets, and see what a country of 300 million people with a strong sense of entitlement and over 250 million guns have to say about it.”
― Craig DiLouie, Tooth and Nail

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“I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.”
― Craig DiLouie

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“Not all ghosts haunt houses. Some try to live in your head.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

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🏊June 2023 General Poll🐬

We ask that you only vote if you are planning on participating in our discussion should your choice win.

Which Crime, Mystery or Thriller would you like to read in June?

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

51 votes, 35.2%

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

35 votes, 24.1%

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

34 votes, 23.4%

Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie

13 votes, 9.0%

Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo

12 votes, 8.3%

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