Anyone have any suggestions for apocalypses books that aren’t totally predictable?
I’ve been all about apocalyptic books lately. Anyone have any suggestions for books that aren’t totally predictable? All manner of apocalypses welcome.
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Alas Babylon
That’s such a good book, especially when you consider the time in which it was wrotten
One of my favorites, along with Down to a Sunless Sea and Lucifer’s Hammer.
Earth Abides
Read this as a teen and have loved if forever
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife.
I liked that one.
The Power. Maybe not technically post apocalyptic, but close enough! ?
I’ve read that! It was really really good.
@Morgan if you like alternate timelines, look at All Our Wrong Today’s!
Just bought it! Thanks for the recommendation, @Nadine!
Have you read Cell by Stephen King?
I have not but I’m going to add it to my list.
Station Eleven
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This is the best apocalyptic book I’ve ever read. https://www.amazon.com/Gray-The-Complete-Collection/dp/B0741G2C6V
Self published and a serial it looks like??
Just bought it in audiobook! Thanks for the recommendation
@AJ The audiobook is fabulous as well!
@Beth , I’m listening to it already!! It is so good!!!
@Kathy No clue if it’s self published, but it is a series of smaller read puts together into one amazing large book!
i love dystopian/apocalyptic books, and am always looking for new ones. ?
Loved this one!
I just started one called Happy Doomsday. It’s one of the prime reads on Amazon this month. Pretty good so far and not quite like everything else.
Apocalypsis by Elle Casey is a YA series on the subject that I really enjoyed..though I would consider it OLDER YA..not for the younger crowd 🙂
I liked The Stand by Stephen King the best. I also enjoyed The Last One by Alexandra Oliva.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake trilogy. The End of the World Running Club.
Yes, to both of these! ❤️
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr. So good!!
The gold standard of post apocalyptic literature!
Cell by Stephen King. One Second After by William F-something.
Both are good.
Swan Song by Robert McCammon; Station Eleven; the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake is the first book); The Call; The Last Days of New Paris; Bird Box; The Children of Men; A Canticle for Leibowitz; Blindness by Jose Saramago; World War Z; The Stand by Stephen King; The Road
I’ve read most of these and agree with you. Good books.
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
I really liked this book
I loved Station Eleven.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Is there a big difference between the book and the graphic novel? I’ve read the graphic novel and I liked it a lot.
I haven’t read the graphic novel but there’s a huge difference between the book and the movie.
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Good book!
Yes!!!
Can’t believe I only just discovered this one. It’s fantastic!
King blood by Simon Clark.
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@Becky ? I be watching lol
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey.
I read that one, I thought it was really interesting.
Second The Girl with All the Gifts!
California by Edan Lepucki
False Dawn by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Me too! Angela white is a good author. I’m waiting on book 12 to be released in her last series.
Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
whoops, I just suggested this before reading comments. This was a really good one.
@Susan loved it!
Year One by Nora Roberts.. It’s a first in a trilogy..
I just finished this and I’m kind of wishing I had waited until they were all out. I have zero delay of gratification, lol.
I’ve read that one, I can’t wait for the next book to come out.
Sandra Kirchner. The 2nd book of the trilogy (Of Blood and Bone) comes out this December..
@Morgan The 2nd book in the trilogy(Of Blood and Bone) comes out this December.. I’m waiting for it too…
Spoiler Question…. I like the book and will read the sequel. However, were you guys at all bothered by the fact that every other character that had been built up and introduced to us was just suddenly abandoned?
Birdbox by Josh Malerman
I was going to make this suggestion as well!
Wake by Elizabeth knox
A Gift upon the Shore by M.K. Wren is a good read- especially if you live in the northwest.
This looks very good. I bought it right away.
Sleep Over by HG Bells
Raptured. (Written by a pastor or televangelist I think, but don’t remember). Really really scary end times book. If you want it, PM me, I’ll send it to you
Newsfeed Trilogy by Mira Grant
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland, not sure if you would call it predictable, maybe I guess? But it is really well written, a great story. I read it years ago, and it has stuck with me all these years as a favorite book.
Loved that
Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge surprised me.
Following
https://www.amazon.com/Swan-Song-Robert-R-McCammon-ebook/dp/B005T54IAY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533939349&sr=8-1&keywords=swan+song+by+robert+mccammon
Wool by Hugh Howey.
And if you like post apocalyptic robot westerns…. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Rust-C-Robert-Cargill-ebook/dp/B01MRWLGD9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533939421&sr=8-1&keywords=sea+of+rust
Lamentation [The Psalms of Isaak Book 1] by Ken Scholes
Swan Song Robert McCammon
Y’all are awesome. My Goodreads list can’t keep up.
Zombie Fallout series!
The End of the World Running Club.
Loved ❤️
Super?
The Last Policeman
Loved this series!
Following
Zone One by Colson Whitehead, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and California by Edan Lepucki. I really liked all of them.
The Stand
One Second After
Need to read World Made By Hand. Different author but could be the sequel
@Suzanne no thank you this one freaked me TF out. I bought a years worth of food and water after reading this.
@Katina ??? actually, we did do prepping after I read those books. My husband already a survivalist type person. ???
WMBH is same concept, but a couple decades later when survivors are thrown back in an agricultural society, pre electric. The main characters are actually whole collectives of ppl surviving and navigating this new world.
It’s worth the read.
@Katina dud you read the forward to One Second Later by Newt Gingrich? Space Force us actually a really good idea these days.
@Suzanne I did it was terrifying!
Apocalypse Z by Manuel Louriero ( a good trilogy)
The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker and American War by Omar El Akaad
One Second After.
Yep! Have you read World Made By Hand?
Me too
Station Eleven, The Dog Star, and Good Morning Midnight are all very good.
Putting Good Morning…on my TBR list. I loved Dog Star and Station 11
These were all great!
Haven’t read The Dog Star but loved the other two. So lyrically written.
Adrian’s undead diary, the survivalist series, and all the stars in the sky.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Passage (first of a trilogy) by Justin Cronin.
Yes to the Passage trilogy! I listened to it on audiobook and I’d sit in my car listening to it sometimes instead of going into wherever I was supposed to be
One Second After and World Made by Hands!!! Must reads!
Ashfall series by Mike Mullin is my all time favorite apocalyptic story! ?
The Sunlight Pilgrims, by Jenni Fagan, centres on the onset of a new ice age, as witnessed by a family in a caravan park in the north of Scotland. There are a million other things going on too! It’s beautiful and sad and majestic.
Immurment is pretty good and has a clever spin on the whole end of the world stuff. By Norma hinkens
One Dead Marine, but it’s one I wrote. LOL
https://www.amazon.com/One-Dead-Marine-Scorched-EarthTM/dp/1469937697/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533946615&sr=8-1&keywords=One+dead+marine
Following
Try Pure by Julianna Baggott
The Last Tribe was pretty good too.
This Is An Older Book—-Lucifer’s Hammer!!!
It may be old, but it’s a good one!
I Know!!! I Haven’t “ Thought” ‘Bout That Book, In Years!!! It Might Just Need To Be—-My Next , Read”!!! This Is Trish!!!
K B Wagers!!!
Oryx and Crake series by Margaret Atwood.
The Fireman by Joe Hill.
Station Eleven
Station 11 is soooo good! Also The Girl with All the Gifts (M Carey) was unpredictable and very good.
Sleeping Giants. It is the first in a trilogy by sylvain Neuvel
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. Not billed as apocalyptic, but is. Different and we’ll written.
Following
Born trilogy!!
A teen trilogy. Really good!
First book was very good
I agree. I really liked these.
The Water Knife and/or Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. (Parable of the Sower by Butler. The Passage trilogy. One Second After – but these have all been mentioned; the other ones hadn’t.)
The Unwind series by Neil Shusterman
I think this series is brilliant and so glad to find someone who likes it too.
Mortal coil
On the Beach
The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker, The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin (amazing) The Dog Star by Peter Heller and The Book of the Unnamed Midwife series by Susan Elison are all wonderful.
The Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood
The outlands or deathlands series
The Road
Octavia Butler’s Parable series. A must read.
I liked The Postman by David Brin. And fairly esoteric but cool, Engine Summer by John Crowley. The Girl With All the Gifts…
I loved The Postman
Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Copeland, The Stand, Stephen King.
Another thought The Steerswoman series.
The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis is a very good post apocalyptic book with a great female protagonist.
The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker
I just ready Cyberstorm by Matthew Mather. I really enjoyed it. Came across as a free read on my kindle. Seems to have quite a few books that fall into that spectrum.
The Book of M..
Station Eleven
Good Omens by Neil Gaman and Terry Pratchett
The Dog Stars!!!!
Bird Box was fairly different
I just downloaded The Book of M! Due to y’alls recommendations ??