Books like World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
12 books with a reading profile close to World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. Outward-looking; an easy read.
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Swan Song
horror, entertainment
After a nuclear exchange incinerates the United States, a handful of survivors struggle against the radioactive winter and a spreading skin mutation known as the Job's Mask.
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his group of survivors attempt to secure a permanent life within the walls of an abandoned prison, but their isolation ends when a helicopter crash leads them to the town of Woodbury.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
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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Superman: Red Son
by Mark Millar
Also outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
In this alternate history, Kal-El’s escape pod lands on a Soviet collective farm in 1938 instead of rural Kansas.
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All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
entertainment, narrative
In 2016, Tom Barren lives in a techno-utopian version of Earth powered by an infinite energy engine created in 1965.
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The Door into Summer
entertainment, narrative
Dan Davis is a talented engineer and inventor in 1970 who loses everything when his business partner and his fiancée betray him.
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Ender's Game Alive
by Orson Scott Card, Kirby Heyborne
entertainment, narrative
Ender’s Game Alive is a full-cast audio dramatization that depicts the military recruitment and training of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.
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The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
by Gerard Way
entertainment, narrative
The story follows the fractured Hargreeves siblings as they navigate the aftermath of the apocalypse they narrowly avoided.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls
entertainment, narrative
Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, travel across post-apocalyptic Australia as they continue their search for Yorick’s fiancée, Beth.
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Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
horror, entertainment
Chuck Tingle's novel takes place in a Christian conversion therapy camp called Camp Damascus, whose pastor claims to cure queer people.
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Stephen King Classic Collection
by Stephen King
horror, entertainment
This box set brings together several of Stephen King’s most recognized works from his early career, including titles like The Shining, It, and Misery.
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Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
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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