Best apocalyptic fiction by new authors?

It would be an idea to have a separate Vampire section. I'm not a bit reader of that stuff but added Interview With The Vampire and The Passage to the list below, under Fantasy.

Ok, so I amended the list as follows:

Zombie

Deadline Trilogy – Mira Grant
Alison Hewitt is Trapped etc – Madeleine Roux
Death by Revelation trilogy – Jack J Lee
Apocalypse Z series – Manel Loureiro
White Flag of the Dead – Joseph Talluto
Zombie Fallout series – Mark Tufo
dEaDINBURGH – Mark Wilson & Paul McGuigan
The Undead – R R Haywood
All the dead are here – Pete Bevan
Zombie Takeover – K Bartholemew
World War Z – Max Brooks
The Passage series – Justin Cronin
Dead World series – Joe McKinney
Autumn series – David Moody
Drop Dead Gorgeous etc – Wayne Simmons
Day by Day Armageddon – J L Bourne
Code Zero etc – Jonathan Maberry
The Rising – Brian Keene
Dead Bastards – Jenny Thompson
Tube Riders trilogy – Chris Ward

Other apocalypse/dystopia

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Stand – Stephen King (also Mist, Cell etc)
Earth Abides – George R Stewart
Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
MaddAdam Trilogy – Margaret Atwood
1984 – George Orwell
Silo49 – Ann Christy
Day of the Triffids etc – John Wyndham
The White Mountains etc – John Christopher
Swan Song – Robert R McCammon
Shades of Grey etc – Jasper Fforde
Divided Kingdom – Rupert Thomson
Chaos Walking series– Patrick Ness
Last Light – Alex Scarrow
Computer One – Warwick Collins
Redaction series – Linda Andrews
The Girl with all the Gifts – MR Carey
The Last Policeman – Ben Winters
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Outpost – Adam Baker
Far North – Marcel Theroux
One Second After – William R Forstchen
Domain – James Herbert
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Yesterday’s Gone – Sean Platt & David Wright
Bird Box – Josh Malerman
The Flood – Stephen Baxter

Young adult

Z for Zachariah – Robert C O’Brien
Children of the Dust – Louise Lawrence
Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Divergent – Virginia Roth
The Gift – Lois Lowry
Wool trilogy – Hugh Howey
Inside Out – Maria V Snyder
Devil on my back etc – Monica Hughes
The Delikon etc – HM Hoover
Blood Red Road – Moira Young
The Fear etc – Charlie Higson
Shade’s Children – Garth Nix
Sparrow Rock – Nate Kenyon
Life as we know it trilogy – Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fantasy

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Dragonflight etc – Anne McCaffrey
London Underground series – David Aaronovitch
Battle etc – L M Pruitt
Vampire for hire – J R Rain
The day Aberystwth stood still etc – Malcolm Pryce
The Passage - Justin Cronin
Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice

Sci-fi:

2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
The Foundation (series) - Isaac Asimov
Dune - Frank Herbert
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru - William Gibson
Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Anathem - Neal Stephenson

Squee. I love lists. I am going to go through it on Amazon and make a wish list, get any freebies and get started. Going to have to start doing more surveys and reviews for amazon vouchers.

I would but I haven't read any of those you have put under fantasy/sci-fi. Are they fantasy, then?

Please let's separate fantasy and sci-fi. Those are very different genres.

To fantasy, I would like to add:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

To dystopia, we really must add:
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

My suggestions for sci-fi:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
The Foundation (series) - Isaac Asimov
Dune - Frank Herbert
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru - William Gibson
Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Anathem - Neal Stephenson

This is my fave genre so will be reading this whole thread with interest. I am struggling with wool. Keep picking it up but i find somat more gripping and forget about it. Just finished first book. Trying desperately to make it through night circus (struggling) then will go back to it again.

I love Flood by Stephen Baxter, and the sequal, Ark. (The oceans just...keep on rising.)

Life as we knew it, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, and the two sequels. (a meteor strike pushes the moon closer to earth. Climate Chaos. it's YA).

Both theses authors were recommended on here.

Hey, I think the book is called Slated, then Shattered, then something else. I'm so sick right now, so I am not much use. Fighting off a fever here. Everything is weird, like my head feels floaty and disconnected.

I just finished The Bird Box by Josh Malerman, it was great - very gripping.

Shade's Children is by Garth Nix. I like that one of his the best of anything he's written I think. I cannot get away with Sabriel and Lirael somehow and Rag Witch just irritated me...
I enjoyed the "Keys to the Kingdom" series, although again, I think with them being aimed at children, and first reading them as an adult, I was just "too old" to truly enjoy them :(
The book Fan describes isn't Shade's Chuildren though - it does ring a bell, it might come to me at 3am in which case I shall come back and share...

That might be Shade's children - can't remember the author's name though.

Another one I really enjoyed; 'Sparrow Rock' by Nate Kenyon, group of teenagers just happen to be hanging out in a nuclear bunker when the bomb drops

I feel like I am missing so much, I've been bedded down with a nasty ear infection and I'm not getting on as much. The list of stuff to read keeps jumping forwards. I think we should compile a master list so folks can cross out what they have read and find the rest easily.

Reading a fascinating dystopian novel where teenagers who commit crime before sixteen get slated, which means all memory erased and passed on to new parents. This is run by a new UK government called Lorders, who basically use questionable methods to control the population. Of course it's being abused and things are going on that shouldn't. There is a terrorist free UK faction, then all the people stuck in the middle who want peaceful change. Finding it really interesting. Will find the series name for any interested parties.

My favourite type of fiction! Would second a lot of the books above and lots of useful suggestions for me too! Also:

The Passage and The Twelve by Justin Cronin (3rd part out later this year)

The Fear, The Enemy etc series by Charlie Higson (zombiesque YA but I found them utterly terrifying)

Tube Riders Trilogy by Chris Ward (first part was free for Kindle recently

'Yesterday's Gone' is great and starts in an intriguing way - What would you do if you woke up one morning and everyone had disappeared?

Dead Bastards looks great.

My Favourites are
The Stand
The Road
Cell
World War Z
Just finished Wool and didn't go much on it at all.

www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Bastards-Jenny-Thomson-ebook/dp/B00AM0OI0G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1396309383&sr=1-1&keywords=dead+bastards

Dead bastards

I recently read one called Dead Bastards which was surprisingly good. Cheap amazon zombie books can be hit and miss.

Other favourites but not new authors are

The stand
swan song
The passage
Children of the dust
Domain
Cell

Some more zombie type books/authors - The Dead World series by Joe Mckinney, the 'Autumn' series by David Moody (set in the UK) and Wayne Simmons has a couple set in Ireland. Adam Baker is another British author, but I've only read one of his and that was based on some outpost in the north atlantic. If you like lots and lots of guns in your zombie PA you should read JL Bourne's Day by Day Armageddon. Jonathan Maberry has a series set several years after the rise of the zombies - that shared similarities with the Mira Grant series (so I thought) I didn't realise till I'd finished the first one that it was aimed at the 'youth' market.

Brian Keene's written a couple of post-apocalyptic novels, both with and without zombies, but his books have a Richard Laymonesque feel to them and get a bit weird for me.

Non-zombie - 'One Second After' by William R. Forstchen, that seemed to be a cross between Alas Babylon and the tv show Jericho.

World War Z (apocalyptic)

Cloud Atlas (Story #5 is dystopian & Story #6 is post-apocalyptic. You can just read those two stories if the rest doesn't interest you)

The Passage (apocalyptic / post-apocalyptic)

1984 (dystopia)

I wasn't impressed by Wool, which I thought was a bit juvenile & lacking in the credibility department, but you might enjoy it if you like YA.

Yy the girl with all the gifts. Loved the ending. A bit crime crossover but the last policeman by Ben winters is also good

I've some of the Redaction series.

Haven't read those other 2 though.....just downloaded them onto my kindle. Two quid well spent!