I like a good apocalypse book, I’ve read plenty of zombie stuff, The Passage, currently on so Stephen kings “The Stand” which is great.

I’m after my next read, but I don’t really want zombie or horror, just “everything falls apart and the aftermath,” if that makes sense, rather than monsters and violence. Any ideas?

The Road.

I like a good apocalypse book

My current research? I’ll let the publisher know we have a pre-sale. 😉

+1 for The Road

Lucifer’s Hammer by Pournelle and Niven or The Forge of God by Greg Bear.

Insert joke about USA here.

I really enjoyed The Postman (very different to the film, obvs)

I’ve never got round to reading or watching the road, don’t know why. Gonna put all these suggestions so far in my reading list, excellent stuff 😀

“Heart of Darkness” Joseph Conrad. Apocalypse? now.

Another one is Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm. Also try the SF Encyclopedia entry here http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/post-holocaust

Mind you if you read all of these in a row it might be a bit bleak. I’d suggest some Pratchett or PG Wodehouse in between.

The Girl with All the Parts.

Zombie, but different.

The girl with all the parts

Might be Girl with all the Gifts, I think most of them come with all the parts…..

From someone else’s recommendation on here – Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

Station Eleven by Emily StJohn Mandel. Post bio-apocolpyse journey in search of new beginnings – quirky and edgy a bit violent in places but not as depressing, outright violent or macabre as The Road.

David Mitchell’s (not that one) THe Bone Clocks has a brilliant post-oil world bit in it at the end – takes a while to get there but worth it.

Swan Song

The Road is great, really hard in places
his border trilogy are also quite nihlistic

the early ballard stuff, the drought, drowned world, high rise

I am legend

Y The last man, graphic novel series is billiant

Revelation.

The Wool trilogy is worth a read. The end of the world running club isn’t bad either. They’re not classics, but good.

The Death of Grass

Rogue Male

Read these.

Swan Song by Robert MacCammon.
I Am Legend
The Road

John Birmingham, Disappearance series. Just finished the three books in the series. Not a literary great but quiet engaging and interesting premise(I read the three back to back). Kind of Clancyesque. Based around America being wiped out and the out fall afterwards.

Dies the Fire by SM Stirling.

Going home by A. American is a good series, in a enjoyable brain in stand by mode way! Or the Arisen series if you fancy a Zombie apocalypse read!

Herbert’s Rats trilogy heads in to Apocalypse territory

The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance is sort of in this area. A stone classic – beautifully written, very light touch and funny stories, but against a sad, elegiac backdrop.

GRRM’s first novel is another suggestion – The dying of the light. Excellent first novel and interesting to read given his later transformation into parttime author of behemoth blockbusters. Not really in the same league as some of the other suggestions upthread, but a good one to pick up if you see it in a second hand bookshop or something.

If your enjoying The Passage your in for a heck of a treat with The Twelve & City of Mirrors. Justin Kronin is simply brilliant.

Watch for those Virals. 😉

Look up “A Scientific Romance” by Ronald Wright.
It’s set 500 years from now, in a world decimated by BSE. (It was written in the 90’s, when BSE was all the rage…).

Can’t really help the OP more than the current suggestions, but wanted to add a big +1 for the Arisen series by Michael Stephen Fuchs. Incredible value for lengthy series of books with a great story arc and good character development. D-Boys is also excellent.

While looking for more zombie/apocalyptic fiction, I stumbled across the ‘Joe Ledger’ series by Jonathan Maberry. Absolutely brilliant and worth a shot if you like the Arisen and D-Boys series.

Recently read the ‘Remaining’ series by DJ Molles. Not up the the standard of the two I just mentioned, but a decent distraction.

Mira Grants stuff is quite readable, the Newsflash series and the Parasite series, one is zombies and other might as well be though.

I know it;s technically a zombie book, but World War Z is excellent (the film is gash, obvs).

It goes into lots of detail about the process of rebuilding and the everyday challenges of living in a post apocalyptic society etc.

Also, another vote for I am legend. The film was appalling, but the book is excellent.

2nd what he said ^ about World war Z, for those reasons

Just thought of another: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.

A superb story about the abandonment of science following a nuclear war, although that description doesn’t really tell the whole story.

The News

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

Dated – but all the better for it , one of the first.

Station Eleven is brilliant. A slightly different perspective than the desperation of many post-apocolytic stories, and really good use of flashbacks.

Another vote for Station Eleven…

I’d avoid Cell by Stephen King as it was too similar to the Stand..

Has anyone read On the Beach by Nevil Shute? That’s supposed to be pretty good..

Another vote for the Wool trilogy, I really enjoyed it. “Sand” by the same author is worth a read too. Also “End of the World Running Club”. Bit different but very good.

Not post apocalyptic as such but distopian nonetheless but “Red Rising” is shaping up to be rather good.

Z for Zachariah
48 by James Herbert

Daily Mail? If you believe that every cold snap is going to be “snowmageddon” and their usual level of story.

Daemon – Daniel Suarez