After dystopian and post-apocalyptic novels to take on holiday

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Hoping that if I share my tastes, people might be able to suggest some good reads for my holiday.

Examples of books I have loved: Station Eleven, The Quiet at the End of the World, The Girl With All the Gifts, The Handmaid’s Tale, Red Clocks, Lauren Oliver’s Delirium series.

I quite liked The Power.

I didn’t like: Hollow Kingdom (such a great premise but gave up as I hated the writing style), Moths. The Last, which I took on a previous holiday and finished but didn’t enjoy. Also not a Stephen King fan.

I’m looking up past threads too but any suggestions are appreciated, old or new!

The Kraken Wakes and the Triffids by John Wyndham. I love everything he wrote though.

I loved Margaret Atwood’s Madaddam trilogy, beginning with Oryx & Crake.

Also recently quite enjoyed The New Wilderness by Diane Cook.

Cormac Mc Carthy ? The Road.

The passage trilogy Justin Cronin( i loved these!)

The Wall john lancaster

Also The Chrysalids.

Colson whitehead - zone one

I loved this book!

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The books are a great read. Also second The Road.

The Virus by Stanley Johnson
The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab

Midwich Cuckoos. I second the Chrysalids- fantastic book.

Oryx and Crake is great!

Just looked up The Great Reset - this looks like non-fiction?

I’m just looking for novels!

Thanks for all the fiction suggestions so far

Any of Christina Dalchers Books. They all fantastic and give you right amount of rage.

Vox - Christina Dalcher
Outlawed - Anna North

The boy on the bridge - sequel to girl with all the gifts.

passage.

Hugh Howey - Wool trilogy.

There’s a sequel? Thank you I had totally missed this fact!

Super sad true love story, it kinda predicted tiktok

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End of the World Running Club
and
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

are both really excellent. Also, it may be technically a Young Adult book, but The Wall is a great read too.

I second the Hunger Games trilogy.

Reading nineties books like Naomi Klien's No Logo from here in the 2020s is a bit awakening too.

Bird box - freaked me out big time!

Not sure if you missed the oryx and crake trilogy mentioned above by a pp. Bloody brilliant. The second one in particular is stunning. Atwood at her best.

It's not exactly dystopian, but it kind of is, but I'd recommend Bel Canto

And then the classics 1984 and Brave New World of you've not read them.

Station 11 Emily St John Mandel

Rosewater - Tade Thompson.

Really excellent and fascinating first volume in a trilogy. Fantastically refreshing and intelligent post-event novel.

I second this! Fabulous novel, especially since Co**d

Until the End of the World Series by Sarah Lyon’s Fleming.