Why are end of the world books comforting? Is it because our world feels like it is going to implode? Global warming? Pandemics? Zombies? I’m not going to survive any of them, but I’ll live vicariously through other survivor stories.
This book ended up being so lovely. The end of the world should be so peaceful of a place.
The Dog Stars
I don’t have any skills to survive the apocalypse, but I could recite poetry and perform in plays to bring sanity to the world.
Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)
I’ve never rooted so hard for a runner. Running for his life, running towards his family.
The End of the World Running Club
I didn’t read this until last year. This one scared me the most because of the eerie similarities to our modern world.
Parable of the Sower
I bought this as a Christmas present and flipped open. I started reading and read through the night. This will tear your heart up. I loved this sparsely told tale.
The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
A friend gifted me this. I sailed on the lake with him, looking for his lost wife, swimming in his grief.
I Cheerfully Refuse
The Stand by King is the first apocalypse book that I devoured way back in the sixth grade. This collection of stories set in the world of The Stand took me back to that world.
The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's the Stand
This was my first apocalypse book I read. I read it in two days. It doesn’t leave you.
The Stand
I’m not a die-hard zombie fan, but I loved this young adult series that starts with this one. As you would expect, the monsters in the book aren’t the zombies. Cool zombie trading cards in each book.
Rot & Ruin
I read and wrote a report on this book for a boyfriend in college. He missed out. I did, too by dating someone who didn’t read. I can still remember scenes from this book.
Earth Abides
Kids who are zombies. Smarter and faster than all the adults.
The Girl with All the Gifts
This doesn’t seem to have the same violence levels as the others. More of a calm apocalypse where everyone sleeps.
The Dreamers: A Novel
A zombie love story? Yes! I thought I said I didn’t like zombie books, but here is another.
Warm Bodies: A Novel
This. This was an engrossing book. People have lost the ability to dream and are desperate to dream. The indigenous people’s bone marrow can provide dreams. Young adult but big themes.
The Marrow Thieves
I love when people have great ideas. So what if the dead of Gettysburg awaken as zombies? What if they train young ladies to kill the zombies? Young adult but excellent series.
