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Luke Dumas

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Luke Dumas is the USA Today bestselling author of four horror and thriller novels including Nothing Tastes as Good and A History of Fear. His bestselling novel The Paleontologist won an ITW Thriller Award, and his short fiction has appeared in the anthologies The Big Bad Book of Kaiju and Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales. A nonprofit professional, he worked for five years in the zoological field for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Brevard Zoo. He lives in San Diego, California, with his dogs.

New novel NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD coming March 2026

I'm delighted to share that my third book, Nothing Tastes as Good: A Novel—a binge-worthy thriller about a weight loss treatment with potentially murderous side effects—is coming March 31, 2026 from Atria Books.

I'm salivating over the gorgeously icky cover design from Claire Sullivan. It’s delicious and nasty and oozing with evil—perfect for a literary thriller/horror about food, fat, and the weig Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.64 · 33,157 ratings · 7,200 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Nothing Tastes as Good

3.72 avg rating — 16,994 ratings — published 2026 — 10 editions
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The Paleontologist

3.49 avg rating — 11,224 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions
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A History of Fear

3.70 avg rating — 4,856 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions
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We Don't Call Them Cages

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“Maybe the drug was turning him into a monster, but how could he be expected to give it up when for the first time people were treating him like a human being.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“but he didn’t want to be supported by fat people and the average-bodied White women who shouldered their way in; he wanted to be supported by the medical community who never stopped making him feel like he was on the brink of death and bringing society down with him.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push-and-pull of comfort and fear.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

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