Post apocalyptic books - recommendations?

[Resilienceisimportant]

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!

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison, this is the first part of a trilogy, "The Road to Nowhere".

A plague kills millions, but can offer some of the survivors a chance to control the lives of others.

Was going to post this. I never come across people who have read it.

John Whyndam's novels are more pre-apocalyptic, I'd say, and excellent.
Body of Glass, by Marge Piercy. More futuristic sci-fi, but has a post-apocalyptic feel to it (the apocalypse being global warming).

Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson, has a similar feel.

As you can tell, I prefer my post-apocalyptic fiction not to be scary!

Eve of Man and Eve Illusion by Giovanna & Tom Fletcher - as with The Enemy series aimed at teenagers, but I liked them.

Also the Bone Catcher series by Samantha Shannon, possibly too sci-fi for some.

Thanks for all the recommendations, lots of new authors to discover.

Glad to see the love for The Chrysalids as it is one of my favourite books, also loved The Wool Trilogy and many of the others mentioned. Although it is YA fiction I also really liked The Hunger Games

Thank you all, I've just bought The Passage and The Book of the Unnamed Midwife audiobooks. I have 10 credits as a Christmas present to use and these 2 are a really good start!

Another vote for Last One At The Party, my favourite ever book.

Thank you. It’s actually on Kindle unlimited so have just downloaded there

Has anyone mentioned the Silo series? Wool/Shift/Dust I think it is - also a series now.

Absolutely brilliant books and also includes flashbacks to before the 'event' (I love a flashback).

Z For Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien

Z for Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien

99p on Kindle just now if anyone's interested

My favourite book of all time.

Also there is an author local to me G J Stevens. His "In the End" "Before the End" and "After the End" trilogy is on my things to read this year.

Loving these recommendations

Would add ‘ children of the dust’ by Louise Lawrence.

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 by William Stroock with some cameos from real life politicians of the time, was a good read.

I read this years ago, but I still think about it. Nice to see it mentioned.

After it happened by Devon C ford is brilliant on audible

The Last by Hanna Jameson, might be a little different.

Down to a Sunless Sea. David Graham.
A plane load of passengers on a long haul flight as the world is being destroyed by nuclear war. No where to land.
I still think about it.

Severance - Ling Ma
Private Rites - Julia Armfield

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff. I think it is more a children / young adult book. Remember reading it in my late teens / early twenties and being quite unsettled by it! Had the same feeling when I read The Road!!

Another vote for The Passage Trilogy.

The only books I've wanted to read again and again.

Thank you @Resilienceisimportant For the excellent thread, first thread I’ve ever saved on MN. I’m going to binging on all recommendations for the foreseeable

@fourquenelles

I have read and re-read Earth Abides so many times over the past 30y. It really is a satisfying read. Here's a nugget for a fellow appreciater. The three main characters, Isherwood, Emma and Ezra - Ish, Em and Ezra - in Hebrew, Ish=man, Em=mother, Ezra=helper.

Ah thanks. I’m now just going to figure out how to save a thread too and will be referencing this thread for months to come!

I always struggled to find good books when I go to the book store but now I can look into these and know they are recommended.

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm actually jealous of anyone reading the Passage for the first time. The two sequels are very good too and are such huge, fat books that will see you right through winter.
I'm also going to recommend Paul Auster's "In the Country of Last Things".

The audiobook is 36 hours and 49 minutes long!!