Books like Swan Song
12 books with a reading profile close to Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Escapist; a moderate read.
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1
The Tommyknockers
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In the town of Haven, Maine, fiction writer Bobbi Anderson discovers a metallic object buried in the earth behind her house.
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2
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
horror, entertainment
Max Brooks presents the chronicle of a global undead pandemic through a series of first-person interviews conducted by an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
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3
The Mist
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
David Drayton and his young son, Billy, become trapped inside a local grocery store when an impenetrable white fog rolls over their lakeside town in Maine.
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4
Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set within the Second Foundation Trilogy, this novel follows Hari Seldon as he defends his theories of psychohistory during a formal trial on the capital world of Trantor.
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5
Shadow Puppets
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this third installment of the Shadow series, Peter Wiggin struggles to solidify his role as Hegemon while the world spirals toward global conflict.
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6
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, travel across a desolate United States as the only two survivors of a global plague that killed every creature with a Y chromosome.
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7
The Walking Dead, Book One
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Sheriff Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find an empty hospital and a world overrun by animated corpses.
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8
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1846, the Donner Party wilderness trek toward California falters as a series of unexplained disappearances and grisly deaths plague the wagon trail.
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9
Friday
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Friday follows the life of Friday Jones, an "artificial person" engineered with enhanced speed, intelligence, and physical durability.
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10
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In 2002, a simultaneous global catastrophe kills every living mammal with a Y chromosome, except for an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his pet capuchin monkey, Ampersand.
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11
The Walking Dead Vol. 7: Calm before
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his band of survivors establish a fragile domesticity within the fences of an abandoned penitentiary.
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12
Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted
by Joss Whedon
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Cyclops and Emma Frost lead a reformed team consisting of Wolverine, Beast, and Kitty Pryde to re-establish the X-Men as a public force for good.
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