I’m looking for a book or series about survival and/or apocalyptic kind of story line. One of my favorite video games of all time is The Last of Us and I’ve always wondered if there’s any books similar to that. Im open to any survival/apocalyptic types of books and don’t mind if it’s fiction or non-fiction. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!!
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The Girl With All The Gifts
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Wool by Hugh Howey
The Stand by Stephen King
Swan Song by Robert McGammon
Black Tide Rising series – Biowarfare causes a 28-days-later scenario and survivors take to the boats to wait for things to die down.
This leans YA but the “5th Wave” trilogy by Rick Yancey is about teens surviving an apocalypse/alien invasion/military coup. It’s quite good and there’s a movie too, although I think the books were a lot better.
Wyrmrot by Stephanie Saige. It’s an indie sci-fi book with lots of survival/adventure in a post-apocalyptic world.
Wold and Iron by Gordon R Dickson
Set in a near future, a scientist survives the collapse of civilization and learns to survive
It’s way better than it sounds and is a fascinating look at “what could happen”
Thanks for the recommendations everyone! I wish I could read them all at once but I decided to start with Wool. One day I’ll get around to reading all of these
*The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds* –Caroline Van Hemert
*Dark Harvest* –Will Jordan
The Last Policeman series
If you’re looking for a more depressing post-apocalypse book, ‘The Road’ is amazing. It features a Father-Son duo trying to survive in a harsh world.
‘The girl with all the gifts’ is also really good! It shares a few similarities to TLOU (MC is a young girl that the scientists are trying to use to find a cure to a cordyceps disease)