Post apocalyptic books - recommendations?

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Hello everyone. I have read the usual and really like this genre or very though provoking books. Last I read was Children of Time. I liked the concept but the spiders weren’t for me 😂.

Would anyone have any recommendations? Thank you!

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. Written before the pandemic but eerily prescient.

The Passage series by Justin Cronin is excellent.

I’ve read it but this is exactly what I love to read - thank you for the recommendation. I completely agree!

Ooooo! I missed this one but looks good! Thank you!

I liked the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey. Couldn't put it down.

The age of miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

The Stand - Stephen King

I came to say ‘The Passage’ and the Silo books.

Can I recommend The Last Man by Mary Shelly, yes, that Mary Shelly. Written in the 1820s it’s the very first post apocalyptic/dystopian future book.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man

The Road.

Peter Heller, The Dog Stars, and Ben Winters, The Last Policeman trilogy.

The Road.

Bleak and beautiful.

End of the world running club and End of the world survivors club

Cool. I’ll take a look thank you!

The Chrysalids, John Wyndham.

Most of John Wyndham's books but especially The Day of the Triffids. I so wish that a new film adaptation could be made.

I read this and loved it. But thank you so much for the reminder as I had forgotten the title and would maybe want to reread.

Thank you! I have read this but right up my alley. I appreciate your recommendation.

Totally agree. Thank you - maybe as they have done a war of the world semi recently?

Swan Song by Robert McCammon is one of my favourite reads, also The Stand by Stephen King

Just finished this over Christmas! Absolutely my kind of book. Thank you for the recommendation.

Another vote for The Road.
Also - another old book - Riddley Walker.
Robert Harris's The Second Sleep is interesting too.

Totally agree but I’ve read it. I really appreciate the recommendation though thank you.

I loved the sort-of-sequels to Station Eleven as well (though not so post apocalyptic).

Children of Men (PD James)
John Christopher (Death of grass, The Guardians, Tripods, Pendulum).
Survivors (Terry Deary - much better than the tv series, but the sequels go a bit weird).
Stars Reach (John Michael Greer)
World built by hand (4 books by James Howard Kunstler).

Also seconding previous votes for The Passage trilogy and Silo.

Ooo I’ll take a look at that thank you for the recommendation!

Oh and Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler.