We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune is one I recently read that kinda stuck with me.
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Oryx and Crake
Parable of the Sower
On the Beach
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I would say *The Road* but it’s not actually an apocalypse book. It’s a beautiful story about the enduring relationship between a father and son… that also happens to be set in a post apocalyptic wasteland.
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The Girl With All The Gifts is really great. It’s a zombie book that’s heavy on the biology. It also has a movie adaptation that’s faithful to the source material.
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is one of my favorite books of all time!
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the stand
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– ‘All The Fiends of Hell’ by Adam Nevill
– ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ by Larry Nivern and Jerry Pournelle
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The Passage trilogy
Swan Song
End Of Days Trilogy
The Stand
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Wool by Hugh Howey. It’s a trilogy and was recently adapted into a tv series (Silo).
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Until the End of the World series by Sarah Lyons Fleming. This is the first of three series that take place during the same zombie apocalypse, set in different parts of the USA. Fleming writes stories that are very human focused. She writes just as much about the feelings and relationships between the survivors as she does about the action/ horror/ survival aspects of the zombie apocalypse. Great books.
The Book of M by Peng Shepard. A great standalone about an apocalypse that begins with a slow pandemic of people losing their shadow….
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. The first in a duology about a group of Indigenous friends in a world crumbling due to environmental disaster. They are being hunted for their bone marrow, which is being used in a brutal concoction to bolster western/ white survival …
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. A different type of story, in this standalone a middle aged woman on a short getaway in the Austrian mountains wakes to discover she is suddenly the last human alive, and she’s trapped alone in the mountains…
Gray trilogy by Lou Cadle. A university aged woman is hiking alone in the USA when a devastating environmental disaster destroys much of the world…
How We End by L. M. Juniper. The first in a new zombie apocalypse series set in the UK. Juniper writes a great mix of engaging relationships between the survivors and intense action horror zombie stuff. Also great diverse representation. Ongoing series.
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this mortal coil – such a good plot twist
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On the Beach by Neville Schute
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Blindness by Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago
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The passage by Justin Cronin
Broken Earth by N.K jemisin
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy) by Margaret Atwood
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Children of Men by P.D. James
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dragonlance: Legends #1Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The stand by stephen king, but its better if you also read the entire dark tower series too
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We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune is one I recently read that kinda stuck with me.
Oryx and Crake
Parable of the Sower
On the Beach
I would say *The Road* but it’s not actually an apocalypse book. It’s a beautiful story about the enduring relationship between a father and son… that also happens to be set in a post apocalyptic wasteland.
The Girl With All The Gifts is really great. It’s a zombie book that’s heavy on the biology. It also has a movie adaptation that’s faithful to the source material.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is one of my favorite books of all time!
the stand
– ‘All The Fiends of Hell’ by Adam Nevill
– ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ by Larry Nivern and Jerry Pournelle
The Passage trilogy
Swan Song
End Of Days Trilogy
The Stand
Wool by Hugh Howey. It’s a trilogy and was recently adapted into a tv series (Silo).
h{{Dies the Fire}}
Until the End of the World series by Sarah Lyons Fleming. This is the first of three series that take place during the same zombie apocalypse, set in different parts of the USA. Fleming writes stories that are very human focused. She writes just as much about the feelings and relationships between the survivors as she does about the action/ horror/ survival aspects of the zombie apocalypse. Great books.
The Book of M by Peng Shepard. A great standalone about an apocalypse that begins with a slow pandemic of people losing their shadow….
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. The first in a duology about a group of Indigenous friends in a world crumbling due to environmental disaster. They are being hunted for their bone marrow, which is being used in a brutal concoction to bolster western/ white survival …
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. A different type of story, in this standalone a middle aged woman on a short getaway in the Austrian mountains wakes to discover she is suddenly the last human alive, and she’s trapped alone in the mountains…
Gray trilogy by Lou Cadle. A university aged woman is hiking alone in the USA when a devastating environmental disaster destroys much of the world…
How We End by L. M. Juniper. The first in a new zombie apocalypse series set in the UK. Juniper writes a great mix of engaging relationships between the survivors and intense action horror zombie stuff. Also great diverse representation. Ongoing series.
this mortal coil – such a good plot twist
On the Beach by Neville Schute
Blindness by Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago
The passage by Justin Cronin
Broken Earth by N.K jemisin
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy) by Margaret Atwood
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Children of Men by P.D. James
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dragonlance: Legends #1Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The stand by stephen king, but its better if you also read the entire dark tower series too