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!

Wow loads of replies already. Thanks everyone! I’ve downloaded lots of Kindle samples to check these out

I Who Have Never Known Men is amazing! Always recommend this for dystopian fiction

I Who Have Never Known Men https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L6XBVSQ/ref=cmswwrcppapi_JVQVE7R6G30P5TYSZJD7

The Gone series by Michael Grant
Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness

Both are classed as YA

Agreed, I've read this recently and found it really eerie.

Gosh, I’ve never come across Jacqueline Hartman before - fabulous recommendation!

Oh yes, I Who have Never Known Men is really interesting!

Swan Song (Robert McCammon)
Lucifer's Hammer
Death of Grass
Alas, Babylon

All classics of the genre.

Louise Welsh's Plague Times trilogy - A Lovely Way to Burn is the first one.

Don't take The Road on holiday!

Swan song is outstanding! I’ve read that over and over for the last 30 years!

Swan Song is superb, but I think it does have a bit of a Stephen King feel about it.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. For some reason I read this during lockdown. It is bloody brilliant

also I Am Legend (don’t be put off by the will smith film, it’s nothing at all like the book. Short, pacy book too perfect for holiday)

I loved this
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Late to the party as ever 🙄 and noting all the suggestions above.
Another Margaret Atwood is 'the heart goes last'. Dystopian future.

The darkest minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken. Marie Lu’s Legend series. The maze runner. I think they are technically young adult books but I loved them!

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Nevil Shute .. On the Beach, it’s a classic

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Another vote for the Chaos Walking trilogy - best YA fiction I’ve read and holds its own amongst the adult dystopian fiction too.

Last one at the party by Bethany Clift and The End of men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

When The Floods Came by Clare Morrall!

the trilogy that starts with ‘Wool’ by Hugh Howey

Another for Chaos Walking series. But never watch the film.

The Gender Game series is fantastic too.

I second this. Loved this trilogy.

I’m currently reading Dreamland by Rosa Rankin Gee and it’s brilliant. One of the ones that seems chillingly plausible.