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 End Specialist by Drew Magary
Genus by Jonathan Trigell

I've just finished Goldilocks by Laura Lam. Technically set in a post apocalyptic world with a dash of science fiction but also in some parts scarily accurate to today's world with the threat of climate change and viral pandemic.

The Things That Keep Us Here
by Carla Buckley

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

I maintain that Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is a post apocalyptic novel, but the apocalypse was economic.

If The Stand is not an option how about
Megan Hunter The End we Start From
David Brin The Postman
Stephen Baxter Flood

World War Z

Yyy to;
The Divergent trilogy
The Passage trilogy
One Second Later (and the following books although the 2nd was better than the 3rd)

There is a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, called The Testaments www.wob.com/en-gb/books/margaret-atwood/testaments/9781784742324?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1rTZpZfF-QIV0OvtCh3K3w0sEAQYAyABEgJtzfD_BwE#GOR010058106

That's interesting @Thewolvesarerunningagain , "I maintain that Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is a post apocalyptic novel, but the apocalypse was economic." I haven't read it in decades but I can see what you mean, this has motivated me to read it again soon.

Have only skimmed the thread -

Has anyone suggested High-Rise by JG Ballard?

I just had a look for my copy. I bought it 35 years ago from a used book shop. It's so brittle and yellowed I think it might fall apart. Might be time for a new one.

Oh God I love this book so much.

The grapes of wrath that is

By the feet of men by Grant Price

The Flame Alphabet is the weirdest dystopian book I’ve ever read. It is so unsettling.

I agree with @terfenerf about Justin Cronin's The Passage trilogy. Amazing books

Late to the party, but this is my kind of thread!
I've tried to suggest some less obvious answers:

The pest house - Jim Crace
This is the way the world ends - James Morrow
The gone away world - Nick Harkaway
The death of grass - John Christopher
On the beach - Neville Shute

am very late to the party but posting because i want to a) subscribe to this list and b) recommend one

I deffo second Station 11 and The Chrysalids (one of the best novels ever written, IMO)

Try The Parable of the Sower by Olivia E Butler (there is now a sequel but i forgot the name) it is very powerful indeed.

arghh - also Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. It is one of those you think about for ages afterwards.

Thanks for all your suggestions everyone. I’ve ordered Goldilocks, An Ocean of Minutes and Last One at the Party in paperback and borrowed ebooks of Chrysalids and World War Z via the wondrous Libby app.

Also, I thought I’d give The Stand a go after people kept recommending it. Ordered it in paperback without checking the page count. Don’t think that one’s coming on holiday with me!

World War Z is great! Enjoy!

I came onto the thread to recommend this! Great book and yes I think what makes it so disturbing is that the world it describes isn't so very different from ours.

Dies the Fire by SM Stirling. Love the apocalypse "cause" in that one.

I've read the whole thread and am really surprised that nobody has mentioned Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Classic dystopian fiction!

The Wanderers by Chick Wendig is excellent.