Can someone please recommend a post apocalyptic book/series (no zombies please!).
Can someone please recommend a post apocalyptic book/series (no zombies please!).
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Can someone please recommend a post apocalyptic book/series (no zombies please!).
William R.Forstchens series
@Katey One Second After?
Alas Babylon
@Sandy I read that in 8th grade and you just reminded me of it! Have to read it again.
@Dan it is just as good the 2nd time!
It does involve zombies but genuinely it’s the best series I’ve read and re read. It’s the feed trilogy by mira grant xx
The Stand
The
Stand, The Stand, The Stand!
@Beth Two sequels.
@Denise I cannot wait until the new one!
Station Eleven or Swan Song are my favorites!
The Stand!!! That book is AMAZING!
This is one of my favorite series.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13453029
I’ve just finished this series, really good reading.
I loves this series! I have kindle unlimited and was able to read the full series for 9.95/month!
Easily my favorite series of all time!!!!
Life as we knew is the 1st book in that series. Sooo good!
Will try this one Kristy. Thanks a lot.
@Kristy I was going to say this one too!
@Kristy this series is really good but the first book was the best imo
@Renee I agree, that 1st one was fantastic!
The Passage series by Justin Cronin
Legend by Marie Lu
The Arcana Chronicles
I haven’t read it yet and it’s not quiiiiiite post-apocalyptic (I don’t think) but I hear One Second After is really good
The Road was also pretty good
The Dog Stars – Peter Heller.
Station 11 was amazing.
Swan Song
@Shelly I just put this one on hold at my local library! It was one of my dad’s favorite novels.
Maze runner
Loved Station 11
The road
Under the never sky, life as we know it. Both series
Swan Song by Robert McCammon. It’s brilliant!
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Station 11
The Enhanced by TC Edge
The Silo series by Hugh Howey (Wool)
The Gender Games by Bella Forrest
The Girl who Dared by Bella Forrest
Currently reading Swan Song….
So far, so good. Very vivid descriptions, and I could well imagine it being pretty accurate.?
There have been a couple of occasions where I had to read back a couple of paragraphs, because I thought I’d missed something, but there are a couple of odd bits.
Wool by Hugh Howey is good. I need to get the rest of the series.
Wool Trilogy – Hugh Howey
@Pamela definitely
@Pamela I love these and have forced hubby, father- in-law and 2 friends into reading them too ??
The stand
Nora Robert’s Year One
Already on my List to Read. Thank you.
@Joyce I just started Book 2 Blood and Bone….We shall see…
The Chaos by @Sergio
The Fireman
??
The McClane apocalypse it is a series of 10 and very good.
The road
The Stand.
The Road. Amazing and so is the film ?
Mmmm! “The Stand”! My son kept trying to get me to read this. I started but gave up fairly quickly. Maybe I should try again.
Has anyone here read The World Made by Hand post apocalyptic series? I bought it on impulse from Amazon, as they offered the title book on a daily deal. I’m hoping it’s a good series, worth about $22 for the whole set of four books.
@Denise I did and really liked it. Not your typical post apocalypse but good none the less.
@Renee Thanks, Renee! Looking forward to reading it.
The Stand.
The Stand – Stephen King. Swan Song – Robert R. McCammon
Year One by Nora Roberts
Does this have magic or something??
Yeah, it does
Queen of the Tearling series
End of the world running club
The Sky so Heavy by Claire Zorn
Following
Divergent series, maze runner series
The 5th Wave Rick Yancey
The Knife of Never Letting go by Patrick Ness
Ready player one by Ernest Cline
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature
The 100, shannara chronicles, maze runner series, the death gate cycle series…
The road
5th wave
Station Eleven
what! no zombies…but,but… i ?dont understand
I second Kings’The Stand’
*The Hunger Games
*Divergent
*The Maze Runner
*The 100 (haven’t read the books but the TV series is amazing)
*5th wave (on my to read list)
The first wave is good
The road
bird box
-One Second After
-Life As We Knew It
TYomorrow When the War Began (lots of books in the series)
Jacqueline Druga has plenty! With and without zombies
The Last Policeman trilogy. Sort of before it happens but very telling of what people value with pending doom in the ner furure.
The Host
Ashfall Series, by Mike Mullin.
The Road.
David Estes The Country and the Dwellers both box sets they connect at the end
The Rise of the Upper Kingdom series by H Leighton Dickson
The Hunger Games part 1 series of 3 by Suzanne Collins
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Keri Arthur has some great ones
Earth abides
The arcana chronicles kresley cole
I like the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews
Shadow & Warrior by Holly S Roberts
Maze runner
The Last Orphans
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Tomorrow When the War Began.
S.M. Stirling
One Second After (A John… https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765356864
Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews
The Dog Stars. My favorite.
Severance
Wool series by Hugh Howey is excellent
Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling is pretty decent. I think the series is called Emberverse.
Going Home by A American.
Cinder
Sovereign, Tosca Lee
The new world series by G Michael Hopf
Wow some really great recommendations!
Akira 1 through 6
V for Vendetta
Knights of sidonia
Neon genesis evangelion kinda
Battle angel alita
Hunger games 1 though 3
Ready Player One the book
I can think of anymore
These are all more focused on relationships and the fight for survival against the harsh environment, rather than too much scary zombie type stuff. Wool series by Hugh Howey (also known as the silo series), After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson, The moon fall series by Susan Beth Pfeffer (also know as the Survivors series). Ashfall series by Mike Mullin. I cant recall which it was, but either the moonfall and or the Ashfall series are a bit religious, but not too much.
Breakers series by Edward W Robertson
Darkest minds series by Alexandra bracken
The Passage, Justin Cronin.
Black Knight Awakening
Z is for Zachariah.
Wool omnibus by hugh howey
The Road
Christian theme? THE RESTORATION SERIES by Terri Blackstock. Last Light, Night Light, True Light, Dawn’s Light.
Stephen King’s Dark Tower series
The Hoffman Plague. Set in Bexhill
Don’t know if it falls directly in the post apocalyptic genre, but the Wayward Pines series by Blake Crouch is great also ?
The testing trilogy
Heiros journey by Sterling E Lanier
Earth Abides by George R Stewart by utterly imaginative and brilliant ?
@Ros Earth Abides! Top 20, got the whole family to read it. Kids included!
@Joyce brilliant ?
The girl with all the gifts
I loved it!
Robert A. Heinlein: Revolt in 2100
The Beyond Series by Kit Rocha
The Rise of the Upper Kingdom series by H Leighton Dickson
Gender games.7 book series.
Not truly post-apocalyptic and not a series either (but it is quite a substantial read); Stephen King’s The Stand. I’d say it’s a post-humanity-as-we-know-it-but-Pre-apocalyptic.
It’s supernatural and fabbity-fab! Twists and turns. It’s dark in places and hilarious in others. One of my favourites (and no zombies!)
The Postman, David Brin was good.
The end of the world running club!
Nicholas sainsbury smith hell divers or extinction cycle
After the Fire Trilogy by John Lockley – the UK after a virus sweeps through!
Flan by Stephen Tunney
Year One by Nora Roberts
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Goliath Code by Suzanne Leonard, really good!
The Stand Stephen king
The Road
The Water Knife and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, stand alone eco-dystopian books are excellent. The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is dystopian sci-fi about a London minister sent to a colony planet to convert the original occupants.
Thanks everyone. What a response! 🙂
Last dog on earth
Shoot like a girl series is really good.
The Last
Wool