**The Stand** by Stephen King is kind of the classic here, if you haven’t read it already.
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station eleven has like 1/3 pre, 1/3 during and 1/3 after
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On the Edge of Gone by Corrine Duyvis – while it’s YA it’s not ‘the chosen one’ or ‘angsty teenage drama’ tropes. The book happens during an asteroid hitting earth/the immediate aftermath. An autistic teenage girl and her mother find refuge on a generation ship (that hadn’t managed to take off before the astroid hit). No romance storyline either
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The Plague, by Albert Camus starts pre plague. I really enjoyed it.
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Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
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Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
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**Lucifer’s Hammer** by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle has scenes leading up to, during, and after the apocalyptic event.
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How about the John Ringo ‘Black Tide Rising ‘ series? I liked it, and I second Lucifers Hammer as well.
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The Passage by Justin Cronin
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_Eon_ by Greg Bear
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Devolution or WWZ by Max Brooks both start just before the apocalyptic event and the books describe why and how the apocalypse happened and why it wasn’t averted
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I’ve always liked Swan Song by McCammon
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The Death of Grass by John Christopher, underrated British classic!
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Nod by Adrian Barnes
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The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker
*Wanderers* by Chuck Wendig. I read it when it came out a few months before Covid hit, so it felt very prescient.
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Station 11 is what you are looking for
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Seveneves by Neal Stephenson covers the apocalypse and after. It is generally highly thought of, but there is a jarring time leap that annoys most people.
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer is technically YA as the main character is a teenage girl, but it is very dark, gritty, and sad.
Emergence by David Palmer can be hard to find but is great! It follows an 11 year old girl genius after a nuclear war wipes out human civilization.
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Into the Mist by P. C. Cast
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Black Tide by K. C. Jones!
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Calizona by Ralph Rotten, and it’s funny too!
Victorian_Cowgirl on
The Stand by Steven King
Blindness by Jose Saramago
MaddAdam, the series by Margaret Atwood
The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carry
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
Left Behind, The Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins
The Great De-evolution Series by Chris Dietzel
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{{Earth Abides}}
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Moon of the crusted snow by Waubgeshig Rice
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Earthseed duology by Octavia Butler (#1 is beginning and during, #2 is still during, but focuses on the impact of what happened during the first years and the belief in a new vision) there are romantic relationships, some are important to the story, but I wouldn’t label it romance
MaddAddam triology by Margaret Atwood
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (brillant, short novel written in the 50s by a master writer, with a story that ties in with our current predicaments and paints a truly scary future)
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**The Stand** by Stephen King is kind of the classic here, if you haven’t read it already.
station eleven has like 1/3 pre, 1/3 during and 1/3 after
On the Edge of Gone by Corrine Duyvis – while it’s YA it’s not ‘the chosen one’ or ‘angsty teenage drama’ tropes. The book happens during an asteroid hitting earth/the immediate aftermath. An autistic teenage girl and her mother find refuge on a generation ship (that hadn’t managed to take off before the astroid hit). No romance storyline either
The Plague, by Albert Camus starts pre plague. I really enjoyed it.
Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
**Lucifer’s Hammer** by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle has scenes leading up to, during, and after the apocalyptic event.
How about the John Ringo ‘Black Tide Rising ‘ series? I liked it, and I second Lucifers Hammer as well.
The Passage by Justin Cronin
_Eon_ by Greg Bear
Devolution or WWZ by Max Brooks both start just before the apocalyptic event and the books describe why and how the apocalypse happened and why it wasn’t averted
I’ve always liked Swan Song by McCammon
The Death of Grass by John Christopher, underrated British classic!
Nod by Adrian Barnes
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Alas, Babylon
**Commune Joshua Gayou** is my fav. Other mostly scifi tastes:
[https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/84551786-marcin-w?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=favorites](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/84551786-marcin-w?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=favorites)
“One Second After” is a great book.
An oldie but a goodie: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
*Wanderers* by Chuck Wendig. I read it when it came out a few months before Covid hit, so it felt very prescient.
Station 11 is what you are looking for
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson covers the apocalypse and after. It is generally highly thought of, but there is a jarring time leap that annoys most people.
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer is technically YA as the main character is a teenage girl, but it is very dark, gritty, and sad.
Emergence by David Palmer can be hard to find but is great! It follows an 11 year old girl genius after a nuclear war wipes out human civilization.
Into the Mist by P. C. Cast
Black Tide by K. C. Jones!
Calizona by Ralph Rotten, and it’s funny too!
The Stand by Steven King
Blindness by Jose Saramago
MaddAdam, the series by Margaret Atwood
The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carry
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
Left Behind, The Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins
The Great De-evolution Series by Chris Dietzel
{{Earth Abides}}
Moon of the crusted snow by Waubgeshig Rice
Earthseed duology by Octavia Butler (#1 is beginning and during, #2 is still during, but focuses on the impact of what happened during the first years and the belief in a new vision) there are romantic relationships, some are important to the story, but I wouldn’t label it romance
MaddAddam triology by Margaret Atwood
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (brillant, short novel written in the 50s by a master writer, with a story that ties in with our current predicaments and paints a truly scary future)
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
world War Z
Earth Abides, great little book.