Mauser3006 Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 As this is a topic which interests me very much I think I have read almost all the mainstream fiction out there; a great deal of which is pretty awful, but there are some gems. Here is a selection of recommendations if it interests you. The Stand - Stephen King. An amazing book following the survivors of a flu epidemic. An easy fun read. The Road - Cormac McCarthy. A brutal look at a destroyed world. Won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003. Set in the near future and spanning an apocalypse. One Second After - William R Forstchen. Following a failure of the grid. A brutally realistic take on what might occur in the days, weeks and months afterwards. All of these are great books in their own way. Has anyone else got any recommendations? I'm just finishing my current book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 David Morrell has written a bunch of good survivalist thrillers (he wrote the original Rambo); always worth looking out for in 2nd hand bookstores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Go back a generation and you have John Christopher's post apocalypse, The Death of Grass (where an experimental plant strain produces a virus that kills all grass species including cereals worldwide) probably the best; A Wrinkle in the Skin about onset of major earthquakes on a global scale, and a few more - most still available. Same era, John Wyndham's novels, The Kraken Wakes and The Day of the Triffids the best known. All very readable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcampbellsmith Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Alternatively - Regards JCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourtyvoats Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Justin Cronin Passage trilogy. Excellent, all 3 books. https://www.goodreads.com/series/53226-the-passage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundoc Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 ALex Scarrow wrote a good pair of books, Last light and After light First one is about the very rapid descent after a peak oil incident- UK based. Second one is the aftermath a few years on- some bits are a bit odd. Loved one second after. A must read to my mind. Also the deep winter trilogy by Thomas sherry.- starts well, gets a bit far fetched by the third one, but still worth reading. I do have quite a few books in kindle format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSoutherner Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 +1 for The Death Of Grass. A brilliant book that has only aged slightly. I feel it portrays a realistic way people would react to TEOTWAWKI. Will check out the others that have been suggested. Whilst The Road is another great book, I was pleased to finish it as it was just so bleak. One to read though, and I like his style of writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauser3006 Posted July 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Just finished a really great book. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. It's set about 20 years after a flu pandemic, with flashes back to today. I really enjoyed it. Also, the Dog Stars by Peter Heller. There's quite a bit about long range shooting which may be of interest to many! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deserttech Europe Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Read " The Death of Grass" last night based on the recommendation. The writing style is a little Enid Blyton....famous five meet the apocalypse :-) but an easy read. thanks for the tip Ewen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcroft Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 The Alex sparrow books are a good read and uk based for a change. If you don't mind the "God" bits & it is US TEOTWAWKI patriots by James rawles is a good read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.jpg.0972b4e2bdf0b5a4109eb96f2b1b62ad.jpg)
(200x135).jpg.0fd0a94f065c6cb243fdff1b40e0819a.jpg)
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.