Please read Blindness by José Saramago!!!! I’m currently reading it and it’s so good, I really think you would enjoy it. It’s about a disease/epidemic that makes people go blind all of a sudden (a white blindness) Edit: I’m not sure if it has sexual violence, I haven’t finished it yet, but I’ll let you know
I don't hate the cover of The Last as much as you, but as a Swiss person I am very bothered by the type of building the designer chose for it 😂it both seems very English in style and just feels super out of place in the Swiss alps - it just doesn't seem like Switzerland to me
The Road is probably the most depressing book I’ve ever read. It’s not an easy read but since you’ve seen the movie, you might have a better time since you know the story going into it. High school me was not prepared.
I highly recommend The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin. It's brilliant and very much post apocalyptic. Wonderful characters and he portrays the best and worst of humanity in such a clever way
Some of my favorites that you haven't mentioned here is Station Eleven, Sea of Tranquility, How high we go in the dark, and Ark from the Forward collection!
I recently read 'how high we go in the dark' and loved it as it provoked some philosophical questions for me, it's written by a man though 🤔 I also recently read parable of the sower and it was amazing! Planning on reading the next one very soon + added some of your recs to my TBR (as usual 😅) lots of love to you and the kitties ❤
The Stand by Stephen King is my favorite post apocalyptic, but based on the books you listed, I don’t think you’d like it much. Station 11 by Emily St.John Mandel is also very good, and seems right up your alley.
I’m currently reading Blindness by José Saramago (it’s sort of a modern classic maybe although it was written in the 90s), so far it’s a great post apocalyptic book about a disease that makes people go blind. I think you (and everyone in the comment section) would enjoy!
I've seen the movie but I'm not sure I want to read the book... I've read another one by him and didn't love the way he wrote the main female character and I would dread reading "that scene" :/
I loved Wanderers but it’s one I read physically and took my time with. Several others are also on my future reading list. I’m currently reading Wool by Hugh Howey(a reread) and will continue with the silo series. You’ve got me interested in The Wall and will add that to my list.
I just finished “The Last One” by Alexandra Oliva. It was a great post-apocalyptic novel following a start on a reality survival show. It questions the role media had on our perceptions of reality. No SA, but there is one scene of violence against the main character.
I finished The book of the unnamed midwife yesterday on your recommendation and it was really great! I'm going to try the other two as well, they are on scribd so no huge money loss if I don't like them. Scribd also has The Last, so added that one too!
I highly recommend recommend finishing the Midwife series! Following different characters, still amazing books. Book 1 becomes a legend in the other books
It’s been yearssss but I loved “How I Live Now” by Susan Beth Pfeffer. The cause of the apocalypse is absurd but I loved the story. No idea how well it would hold up now. Apparently the sequels were not good, but 2017 me definitely recommends the first one! Edit: somehow I listed the wrong book. I means “Life As Knew It” !
I read the first three books in this series. They get progressively darker. They're good though. She wrote a fourth book but I couldn't bring myself to read it.
I'll have to check some of these out as currently I've been left wondering if post-apocalyptic is for me at all. I tried Swan Song, The Stand, and even The Road and I wouldn't really say I enjoyed any of them. It just tends to be the doom and gloom and woe is me that makes them hard to enjoy for me. And some authors (looking at King in particular) REALLY lean into the graphic details.
Also a post apocalyptic fan, first time finding your channel. Our book club read Wanderers this year and it was split about half and half liking it and the other half DNF’d. I was in the loving it camp. Great twist ending. I agree it went on a bit long at times but overall I had no problem. If you haven’t read Good Morning Midnight yet I would suggest it. That was one of my top books from all of 2023 I read. Much more cerebral than action, even though I tend to lean toward the action type I loved this book. Looking forward to more recommendations of post apocalyptic books.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is my all time favorite S-F. Don't expect much action or character development, it's more an idea book. I love the idea to anchor the plot around a Christian monastery, it seems so out of place for an S-F novel, yet it works so well. I must warn you that it is slightly preachy, but it's mostly in the last part and not in-your-face kind. It's also very approachable for non-S-F readers, because there is next to no technobable.
book of the unnamed wife was just so good, I didn't even know about it until I saw in a previous vid by you. first time hearing about *the last* Ill have to check it! thanks for the vid
Dont read the sequel. its horrible and it will ruin the first book for you. So treat the unnamed midwife as a standalone and run far away from the book of etta. seriously save your mind !!!!!
Need to read the Gone series by Michael Grant. People over a certain age disappear and the kids left behind find themselves trapped in a dome and, with the help of special abilities, find ways to survive 👌 I stumbled upon it and was enthralled by the series.
"Future Home of the Living God", by Louise Erdrich, and "Station Eleven", by Emily St. John Mandel. The first leaves me intrigued, and I just loved the second.
I read Parable of the Sower in March and I loved it. Like you said, so realistic and brilliantly built!!! 👌🏻 Book of the Unnamed Midwife is probably my favourite post apocalyptic book. Another zombie apocalypse book I really liked was The Girl with all the Gifts (just do not touch the film with a ten foot pole).
I’m so happy to hear someone else loved The Wall, I don’t see it mentioned anywhere! I read it last year, and can’t stop thinking about it. I recently read Not Alone by Sarah K. Jackson, it is a wonderful debut, beautifully written, and very current themes, I think you might like it!
Oh my gosh! Your baby kitty is so precious! He looks just like my Nathan who is 11 years old now! I adopted him when he was 2! Wow! Time flies too fast! We are both blessed! Thanks also for the good recs and thank you for the rape scene warnings too!
Just finished how high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu and I think you would absolutely love it It handles so many different sides and views of a pandemic / post apocalypse
I used to love post apocalyptic books but I stopped reading them because, for a time, they all seemed to be the same. I'm going to read several of these books, though.
My absolute favorite pos apocalyptic books are War Girls and Rebel Sisters by Tochi Onyebuchi, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse and Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow. I still think of After the Flood by Kassandra Montag too, even though I didn't give that one give stars.😅
Wow the algorithm is doing its thing today lol. I just searched “good apocalypse books” after leaving a review (for The Death of Grass) where I said I might need to quit reading books in this genre written by men prior to 2006 🙃. How High We Go in the Dark got me back into reading after many years. Thank you for your suggestions, this is exactly what I was looking for.
Metro 2033 is superb. There are a few typos in the book that I found annoying, but it is a wonderful book. As for the Road, it’s my favourite book of all time and mostly because of the writing style. It reads like one epic poem and there are moments of such beauty that act as the counterpoint for the bleakness of the story. Whatever you read, I hope you enjoy it!
If women keep being SA'd in those remote location science jobs, maybe they should stop sending men???? Instead of punishing women for something that men are doing. Ridiculous! I hadn't heard about that until you mentioned it
I’ve just finished A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World, it’s a wonderful post-apocalyptic story and would highly recommend. Avoid reading too much into the book for the best experience.
Mood of the Crusted snow OBSESSED one of my favorite books absolutely brilliant cover xoxo 😘 💞🩶💜💜📙📙🩶🩶🩵😘🪷🌈🩵🩷🌞🩷💔💔📚🪻🪻💛❤️❤️💛🌾🤎🌼🌼🌾💕🤍🥀🌼🌸💔💞🩵🌈❣️💜💜🩶🩶🩶💞🩵🌈📖🪷🩵🩶🌞🩷🩷📚🩷📚📚🪻💛🖤🌾🤎🌼🌼🌸🤎💕🤍🌼🌷💔📚💞🩶💞🩵❣️💜💜❣️🩵🌈🌞🩷📖📖🪷🌈📚📚📚📚🩷🩷📚
I recommend the Wormwood Trilogy by Tade Thompson as a post-apocalyptic. It starts in 2062 Nigeria, set years after a biodome appears from nowhere. The city of Rosewater forms around it as it provides electricity and healing powers. I don’t want to give more, as going in blind is the best way to enjoy these books.
Aurora by David Koepp is great. It is extremely character driven, does not have a military or war or violence focus, has multi povs, and is more on the scifi aspect of dystopia than thriller. Loved it.
Just finished reading Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys. Another, older novel with the same title. Don’t know if that would interest you or not. I’ve been reading all of Jean Rhys’s novels because I read Wide Sargasso Sea 40 years ago and really loved it. Her earlier novels have kind of disappointed though. Just getting up to rereading Wide Sargasso Sea, wondering if it will disappoint 40 years later. I thought that I should reread Jane Eyre first though, since it’s been 60 years since I read it. About half way through that now and loving it much more than I did in junior high.
Most of the post-apocalyptic fiction I've read has been of the zombie apocalypse sub-genre. My favorites from those are: The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey World War Z by Max Brooks Feed by Mira Grant (1st of a trilogy which I enjoyed much more than books 2 and 3, but 1st can be read as standalone) Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (and Tremblay's A Headful of Ghosts was straight horror rather than post-apocalyptic but so good) plus one non-zombie post-apocalyptic series I loved: the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey Several of the ones you highlighted in this video I have but haven't read yet. Looking forward to them and adding Good Morning, Midnight to my list.
Post-apocalyptic is one of my favourite genres! If you haven't already, I'd recommend you check out The Girl with all the Gifts by Mike Carey and The Children of Men by P.D. James. Curious to hear your thoughts. I also recently read The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale is my favourite book of all time).
I've heard good things about Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias and am planning to to read it soon (in Danish). Think it's being translated to English later this year. It's originally in Spanish 😊
Thanks for the recommendations. My favorite author is Jacqueline Druga, I absolutely love her books! The Last Woman and The Sleepers series are two I recommend. I am the same about the gratuitous violence (especially sexual), I also realized it was mostly male authors. My favorite ones are usually by female authors, But there are some exceptions.
I’ve recently tried my hand at writing a post apocalyptic book because even though I love the genre I felt it’s all become sort of stale and wanted to a try a fresh spin on the zombie narrative. I would love to hear your thoughts about it if you have the time, though it’s probably not that good since it’s my first book. It’s called Deadeyes by JoVontae T.M. James
I definitely recommend The Road. The writing style takes some getting used to, but it's worth persisting. I loved the film, but I don't think it fully captured the bleakness of the book.
I like post apocalyptic but i never seem to read it, don't know why. Gonna try your recomendations in the future, maybe i start reading more of the genera.
I tend to avoid male authors when it comes to gritter settings at least with authors I'm unfamiliar with i get the feeling that for some unwarranted reason they'll be some sa for plot development or character building no actual deeper discusion. Just some. random sexism, not from the characters, but in the writing or poor female characters maybe none at all. I just don't have the time to care anymore. I hate that it's like that but it really is from experience.
Potable of the Sower I read them both and love her and my favorite author xoxo 😘 😘📚💜💜📚❤️🧡🌈🩵📙🌈🧡💖💖🪻🪻💔💕💕💔📖🤎🤎🖤🩶🖤🤍🩷🩷🪷💔💕🌷🌷🌈🌈❣️💜💜❤️🧡🌈🖤🩶🩶🩶🩶📙💞💞🌈🧡❤️💖💖🌷🌹🌞🖤🖤🪻🪻🪻🌷💖🪻🪻📙💞💞🌈🧡🌈💞💞💛💛🌼🌼
The Postman, David Brin The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World C.A. Fletcher Sorry this is more of a speculative fiction , but after 7 years it still roams around my brain The World of the End by Ofir Touche Gafla
I really liked The Moonday Letters by a finnish author Emmi Itäranta! And I just realized that I have no idea what you're saying in the beginning of your every video XD lol
Thanks for the rec, a Finnish book that I liked recently was The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo PS she says "Hey everyone it's Emily Fox, today's video is going to be..."
LOL, Good Morning Midnight is actually an old man and a young girl alone at an otherwise abandoned Arctic research station, and a bunch of people (both sexes) on a spaceship returning to a suddenly silent Earth (no SA!) I think you'll like it!!
I haven't been a turbo watcher for a while now and I was wondering if you ever got around to On The Beach. Smh I see a few people recommending Blindness and while I agree be prepared for great walls of text and the common post-apocalyptic underwhelming ending.
Thinking about what you said about the Last, have you read The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters? It's an impending apocalypse, and the main character is a Detective, and is also kind of distracting himself by solving a murder.
I read the next two novels to The unnamed midwife. The book of Etta wasn't for me, more violence, more angst, more action. The third book The book of Flora had a different vibe, loved that one, so if the second one wasn't for you, still you should give the third a chance. And I wouldn't say they are companion novels, you definitely need to read them in order to understand certain things of the plot.
I thought Parable of the Talents was way too gratuitous and I could not like the main character anymore because of just... so many things. Telling the women in her group it's better to let SA happen to them than other alternatives? That was the straw the broke the camel's back but there was so much more too. I don't care if it's Octavia E Butler, I'm still going to be uncomfortable with it. My favorite recent post-apocalyptic book was Station Eleven, even though it was too realistic in some aspects and kept freaking me out. lol
Sending positive energy for your surgery you can do it I believe in you and it will go great ur surgery plus you feel better too and some course and strength xoxo 😘 🩷📚🩷🩵🩵❣️💞💜🌈📖📖💞❣️🩵❣️🪷🌼🌞💔💔🤎🤎💕🪻💛🤍🌾❤️❤️🌹🥀💖🧡🌷💔🌼🌞💔❣️🩵🩵🩵📚📚🩷🩷🩷🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩶🩶💜🌈🖤🖤🖤🖤
Omg you're gonna read Metro!!! I don't know if I should be happy or scared that you might not like it haha And if you continue the series and don't like Metro 2034, Metro 2035 is so much better... (hence my fear) I would even say, maybe skip the book in the middle? Probably not the best thing to do since the last book sort of ties the whole story together, but at the same time, the middle book was rather disappointing for me Knowing that the author was inspired by the videogame based on the first book to continue the trilogy really goes to show the power of videogame storytelling, in my opinion Thanks to the Metro series I got to truly bond with a very dear friend of mine, who is a fan of the videogame and suggested I read the novel, I did and I loved it, and we would do discord calls in which we compared notes between the videogame and the book, a lovely experience that I couldn't have had otherwise Thanks for giving a chance to such an important book for me
The book unnamed of the midwife it is good and very intense I I enjoyed it too xoxo 😘 kept me on my feet 💞🌈💞💛💛🧡🪻🖤🖤🌷💜🩶🩶📙❤️🌹🌞🌞💕📚📚🩵📖📖🩷💕❤️❣️❤️💜💜🌷🌷🌈💞💞💞💖💛🩶🌞🌞🩶💞💞🌈💛🩶🩶💜💜📙🌷🪻🌼🖤❣️📙💜💜🌞🌹💔📚🪷🪷🤎🩵📖📖🌾🌸🩷❣️❣️📙
What are the best post apocalyptic books you've read?
Please read Blindness by José Saramago!!!! I’m currently reading it and it’s so good, I really think you would enjoy it. It’s about a disease/epidemic that makes people go blind all of a sudden (a white blindness)
Edit: I’m not sure if it has sexual violence, I haven’t finished it yet, but I’ll let you know
I who have never known men, the last of us and the road
One Second After trilogy from William Forstchen
I read Le mur invisible (The Wall) and it blew my mind. It's one of my favorite book 😻
@@scarlettesc There's definitely sexual violence that made me 😬
I don't hate the cover of The Last as much as you, but as a Swiss person I am very bothered by the type of building the designer chose for it 😂it both seems very English in style and just feels super out of place in the Swiss alps - it just doesn't seem like Switzerland to me
How High We Go In The Dark is an amazing and beautiful post-apocalyptic book. I highly recommend it.
Another vote for this! I really loved it even though I don't usually like short story collections.
Oh it's on my library waiting list!
This one yes!
I read this with mixed feelings. I liked it more after I finished it.
It's distressing
The Road is probably the most depressing book I’ve ever read. It’s not an easy read but since you’ve seen the movie, you might have a better time since you know the story going into it. High school me was not prepared.
HS is definitely too young to read that :S
I also read it in high school. I loved the father-son interactions! The ending broke me, loved every second!
How do you figure? So what is an age you think that's appropriate? @@BookswithEmilyFox
I highly recommend The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin. It's brilliant and very much post apocalyptic. Wonderful characters and he portrays the best and worst of humanity in such a clever way
I love The Passage trilogy.
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham was the first one I ever read and it's definitely worth a read. It is ancient but I think it's still in print.
I checked and it is one of the SF Masterworks.
Oh this is an excellent one. Short too 😊
The Last is $1.99 CAD on Kobo and Kindle right now too! I just bought it a few days ago, looking forward to reading it!
Some of my favorites that you haven't mentioned here is Station Eleven, Sea of Tranquility, How high we go in the dark, and Ark from the Forward collection!
Couldn’t agree more on Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility
Sea of Tranquility is my new favorite book 😢🎉 soooooo good
I recently read 'how high we go in the dark' and loved it as it provoked some philosophical questions for me, it's written by a man though 🤔 I also recently read parable of the sower and it was amazing! Planning on reading the next one very soon + added some of your recs to my TBR (as usual 😅) lots of love to you and the kitties ❤
The Stand by Stephen King is my favorite post apocalyptic, but based on the books you listed, I don’t think you’d like it much. Station 11 by Emily St.John Mandel is also very good, and seems right up your alley.
Yes I love post apocalyptic books. I’m here taking notes, ha
I’m currently reading Blindness by José Saramago (it’s sort of a modern classic maybe although it was written in the 90s), so far it’s a great post apocalyptic book about a disease that makes people go blind. I think you (and everyone in the comment section) would enjoy!
one of my all time favorite books!!!! i hope you enjoy it
I've seen the movie but I'm not sure I want to read the book... I've read another one by him and didn't love the way he wrote the main female character and I would dread reading "that scene" :/
@@BookswithEmilyFox oh no now I’m scared to keep reading:(
@@BookswithEmilyFox i just finished the book and oh my god I literally hate it haha you would too. Not recommending it ever
Haha idk how close the movie is but I thought the concept was interesting but the male gaze was heavy
I highly recommend Sea of Tranquility!! It’s so incredibly good and well written. Loved it! One of my new all time fave🎉
I loved Wanderers but it’s one I read physically and took my time with.
Several others are also on my future reading list. I’m currently reading Wool by Hugh Howey(a reread) and will continue with the silo series.
You’ve got me interested in The Wall and will add that to my list.
I just finished “The Last One” by Alexandra Oliva. It was a great post-apocalyptic novel following a start on a reality survival show. It questions the role media had on our perceptions of reality. No SA, but there is one scene of violence against the main character.
I finished The book of the unnamed midwife yesterday on your recommendation and it was really great! I'm going to try the other two as well, they are on scribd so no huge money loss if I don't like them. Scribd also has The Last, so added that one too!
I highly recommend recommend finishing the Midwife series! Following different characters, still amazing books. Book 1 becomes a legend in the other books
So happy to have Emily’s video on a Saturday evening 🎉
It’s been yearssss but I loved “How I Live Now” by Susan Beth Pfeffer. The cause of the apocalypse is absurd but I loved the story. No idea how well it would hold up now. Apparently the sequels were not good, but 2017 me definitely recommends the first one!
Edit: somehow I listed the wrong book. I means “Life As Knew It” !
Hallo! Do you mean "Life As We Knew It"? I can't find this one.
@@SuSi-zq8hw oh my gosh, yes. I don’t know how I mixed them up because I hated the book “How I live now”
I read the first three books in this series. They get progressively darker. They're good though. She wrote a fourth book but I couldn't bring myself to read it.
@@whatkaylasaysyeah i couldnt get behind the incest
Have been reading romance for a week now and needed something like this 😭 Thanks Emily ♥️🥺
Day of the triffids was surprisingly good. The road by Cormac McCarthy is good, but bleak
Have you read Blindness by Jose Saramago? Interesting concept and execution about an epidemic that causes people to go blind
"Blindness" is very good example of this topic ! I loved it, too. It's maybe one of Saramago's best books🙂
I'll have to check some of these out as currently I've been left wondering if post-apocalyptic is for me at all. I tried Swan Song, The Stand, and even The Road and I wouldn't really say I enjoyed any of them. It just tends to be the doom and gloom and woe is me that makes them hard to enjoy for me. And some authors (looking at King in particular) REALLY lean into the graphic details.
Also a post apocalyptic fan, first time finding your channel. Our book club read Wanderers this year and it was split about half and half liking it and the other half DNF’d. I was in the loving it camp. Great twist ending. I agree it went on a bit long at times but overall I had no problem. If you haven’t read Good Morning Midnight yet I would suggest it. That was one of my top books from all of 2023 I read. Much more cerebral than action, even though I tend to lean toward the action type I loved this book. Looking forward to more recommendations of post apocalyptic books.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is my all time favorite S-F. Don't expect much action or character development, it's more an idea book. I love the idea to anchor the plot around a Christian monastery, it seems so out of place for an S-F novel, yet it works so well. I must warn you that it is slightly preachy, but it's mostly in the last part and not in-your-face kind. It's also very approachable for non-S-F readers, because there is next to no technobable.
Let me try this one then
I love going back to your old videos because I get to see the kitties when they were so small 😻😻😻
book of the unnamed wife was just so good, I didn't even know about it until I saw in a previous vid by you. first time hearing about *the last* Ill have to check it! thanks for the vid
Dont read the sequel. its horrible and it will ruin the first book for you. So treat the unnamed midwife as a standalone and run far away from the book of etta. seriously save your mind !!!!!
@@Shukri-The-Great yikes! what was the main issue with it for you?
I would also recommend The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
Need to read the Gone series by Michael Grant. People over a certain age disappear and the kids left behind find themselves trapped in a dome and, with the help of special abilities, find ways to survive 👌 I stumbled upon it and was enthralled by the series.
"Future Home of the Living God", by Louise Erdrich, and "Station Eleven", by Emily St. John Mandel. The first leaves me intrigued, and I just loved the second.
I read Parable of the Sower in March and I loved it. Like you said, so realistic and brilliantly built!!! 👌🏻 Book of the Unnamed Midwife is probably my favourite post apocalyptic book.
Another zombie apocalypse book I really liked was The Girl with all the Gifts (just do not touch the film with a ten foot pole).
I just read the Unnamed Midwife and I LOVE IT! Ty for your advice.
I’m so happy to hear someone else loved The Wall, I don’t see it mentioned anywhere! I read it last year, and can’t stop thinking about it. I recently read Not Alone by Sarah K. Jackson, it is a wonderful debut, beautifully written, and very current themes, I think you might like it!
Good luck on your surgery! I wish you a speedy recovery ❤
Thank you! I just got home 💜
Good Morning, Midnight is one of my top favorite books 😍
Currently reading Walk the Vanished Earth, only 50 pages in but it's intriguing so far.
Good morning, Midnight ! I was just about to recommend to you.
Oh my gosh! Your baby kitty is so precious! He looks just like my Nathan who is 11 years old now! I adopted him when he was 2! Wow! Time flies too fast! We are both blessed! Thanks also for the good recs and thank you for the rape scene warnings too!
Just finished how high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu and I think you would absolutely love it
It handles so many different sides and views of a pandemic / post apocalypse
I used to love post apocalyptic books but I stopped reading them because, for a time, they all seemed to be the same. I'm going to read several of these books, though.
I’ve had an Octavia Butler book on my shelf for ages. I think I need to finally read it.
My absolute favorite pos apocalyptic books are War Girls and Rebel Sisters by Tochi Onyebuchi, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse and Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow. I still think of After the Flood by Kassandra Montag too, even though I didn't give that one give stars.😅
Wow the algorithm is doing its thing today lol. I just searched “good apocalypse books” after leaving a review (for The Death of Grass) where I said I might need to quit reading books in this genre written by men prior to 2006 🙃. How High We Go in the Dark got me back into reading after many years. Thank you for your suggestions, this is exactly what I was looking for.
Metro 2033 is superb. There are a few typos in the book that I found annoying, but it is a wonderful book. As for the Road, it’s my favourite book of all time and mostly because of the writing style. It reads like one epic poem and there are moments of such beauty that act as the counterpoint for the bleakness of the story. Whatever you read, I hope you enjoy it!
Loved Moon of the Crusted Snow 🙌
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If women keep being SA'd in those remote location science jobs, maybe they should stop sending men???? Instead of punishing women for something that men are doing. Ridiculous! I hadn't heard about that until you mentioned it
I ordered THE LAST b/c of you. Thank you! 🤩
I’ve just finished A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World, it’s a wonderful post-apocalyptic story and would highly recommend. Avoid reading too much into the book for the best experience.
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I just bought a canticle for liebowitz!! So curious to see if it’s any good! Ready for my post apocalypse era
I loved One Second After by William Forstchen, and The Survivalist series by A. American.
I recommend the Wormwood Trilogy by Tade Thompson as a post-apocalyptic.
It starts in 2062 Nigeria, set years after a biodome appears from nowhere. The city of Rosewater forms around it as it provides electricity and healing powers. I don’t want to give more, as going in blind is the best way to enjoy these books.
Aurora by David Koepp is great. It is extremely character driven, does not have a military or war or violence focus, has multi povs, and is more on the scifi aspect of dystopia than thriller. Loved it.
Just finished reading Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys. Another, older novel with the same title. Don’t know if that would interest you or not.
I’ve been reading all of Jean Rhys’s novels because I read Wide Sargasso Sea 40 years ago and really loved it. Her earlier novels have kind of disappointed though. Just getting up to rereading Wide Sargasso Sea, wondering if it will disappoint 40 years later. I thought that I should reread Jane Eyre first though, since it’s been 60 years since I read it. About half way through that now and loving it much more than I did in junior high.
I agree about emergency skin being post apocalyptic
I picked up The Book of the Unnamed Midwife based on your recommendation and it was truly the best post apocalyptic book I’ve ever read.
Most of the post-apocalyptic fiction I've read has been of the zombie apocalypse sub-genre. My favorites from those are:
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
World War Z by Max Brooks
Feed by Mira Grant (1st of a trilogy which I enjoyed much more than books 2 and 3, but 1st can be read as standalone)
Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (and Tremblay's A Headful of Ghosts was straight horror rather than post-apocalyptic but so good)
plus one non-zombie post-apocalyptic series I loved:
the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey
Several of the ones you highlighted in this video I have but haven't read yet. Looking forward to them and adding Good Morning, Midnight to my list.
Post-apocalyptic is one of my favourite genres! If you haven't already, I'd recommend you check out The Girl with all the Gifts by Mike Carey and The Children of Men by P.D. James. Curious to hear your thoughts. I also recently read The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale is my favourite book of all time).
I also recommend The Book of Koli by Mike Carey, The Passage by Justin Cronin, and Viendra le temps du feu by Wendy Delorme
I've heard good things about Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias and am planning to to read it soon (in Danish). Think it's being translated to English later this year. It's originally in Spanish 😊
Thanks for the recommendations. My favorite author is Jacqueline Druga, I absolutely love her books! The Last Woman and The Sleepers series are two I recommend.
I am the same about the gratuitous violence (especially sexual), I also realized it was mostly male authors. My favorite ones are usually by female authors, But there are some exceptions.
If you haven’t read it already, After the Flood by Kassandra Montag was great.
Emily, please, check The Revivalists by Christopher M Hood. It is definitely less on the violent side and more on the hope.
I’ve recently tried my hand at writing a post apocalyptic book because even though I love the genre I felt it’s all become sort of stale and wanted to a try a fresh spin on the zombie narrative. I would love to hear your thoughts about it if you have the time, though it’s probably not that good since it’s my first book.
It’s called Deadeyes by JoVontae T.M. James
I definitely recommend The Road. The writing style takes some getting used to, but it's worth persisting. I loved the film, but I don't think it fully captured the bleakness of the book.
I picked up The Last when I was in London in 2019 and I loved it too. But I agree with you, it is marketed incorrectly as a mystery thriller.
I like post apocalyptic but i never seem to read it, don't know why. Gonna try your recomendations in the future, maybe i start reading more of the genera.
I hope the catlings aren't going to be too much trouble in the next couple weeks
I'll have some help for the first few days of recovery so they won't be my problem :P
I loved daylight come by Diana Macaulay. Highly recommend.
I tend to avoid male authors when it comes to gritter settings at least with authors I'm unfamiliar with i get the feeling that for some unwarranted reason they'll be some sa for plot development or character building no actual deeper discusion. Just some. random sexism, not from the characters, but in the writing or poor female characters maybe none at all. I just don't have the time to care anymore. I hate that it's like that but it really is from experience.
Potable of the Sower I read them both and love her and my favorite author xoxo 😘 😘📚💜💜📚❤️🧡🌈🩵📙🌈🧡💖💖🪻🪻💔💕💕💔📖🤎🤎🖤🩶🖤🤍🩷🩷🪷💔💕🌷🌷🌈🌈❣️💜💜❤️🧡🌈🖤🩶🩶🩶🩶📙💞💞🌈🧡❤️💖💖🌷🌹🌞🖤🖤🪻🪻🪻🌷💖🪻🪻📙💞💞🌈🧡🌈💞💞💛💛🌼🌼
Good luck on Monday...10 stars for the kitten he's adorable.
Just wanted to say 'Good luck' again for tomorrow. Speedy recovery!
Thank you!
The Postman, David Brin The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
C.A. Fletcher
Sorry this is more of a speculative fiction , but after 7 years it still roams around my brain
The World of the End
by Ofir Touche Gafla
№3 in the beginning gave me dangerous amounts of cute aggression.
He's getting SO big!
I also really enjoyed The Last. I found the storytelling interesting and yea, def a post-apocalyptic book.
I really liked The Moonday Letters by a finnish author Emmi Itäranta!
And I just realized that I have no idea what you're saying in the beginning of your every video XD lol
Thanks for the rec, a Finnish book that I liked recently was The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
PS she says "Hey everyone it's Emily Fox, today's video is going to be..."
LOL, Good Morning Midnight is actually an old man and a young girl alone at an otherwise abandoned Arctic research station, and a bunch of people (both sexes) on a spaceship returning to a suddenly silent Earth (no SA!) I think you'll like it!!
LOL thanks for the correction! Still looking forward to it
So excited to screenshot all these recs!
I haven't been a turbo watcher for a while now and I was wondering if you ever got around to On The Beach. Smh
I see a few people recommending Blindness and while I agree be prepared for great walls of text and the common post-apocalyptic underwhelming ending.
One day I'll get to it!
Thinking about what you said about the Last, have you read The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters?
It's an impending apocalypse, and the main character is a Detective, and is also kind of distracting himself by solving a murder.
I did! I liked the concept more than the book itself but it was an interesting idea!
I read the next two novels to The unnamed midwife. The book of Etta wasn't for me, more violence, more angst, more action. The third book The book of Flora had a different vibe, loved that one, so if the second one wasn't for you, still you should give the third a chance.
And I wouldn't say they are companion novels, you definitely need to read them in order to understand certain things of the plot.
I’ve had the last on my TBR FOREVER but still haven’t read it yet
I loved The Last. I couldn’t put it down while reading it. Also I kind of like the cover.. 😂
Happy Saturday Emily hope you have a great weekend xoxo 😘 🌼💖💛❣️❣️💜📖🩵📙📚❣️❣️🌈🌈💕🌹💕🪷💔🌾🌹🌹🤎🩷🥀🥀🌞💞🌷💜💜❤️❣️❣️❤️💜🌷🌈🌈🪻💖🩵🩵📙📚❣️❣️❣️📚📚📚📚❣️💜💜💜💜💜❤️💞🧡🧡
Chapter Three - Escape Artist
He succeeded this morning XD
@@BookswithEmilyFox he's in his own "choose you're own adventure" book
I thought Parable of the Talents was way too gratuitous and I could not like the main character anymore because of just... so many things. Telling the women in her group it's better to let SA happen to them than other alternatives? That was the straw the broke the camel's back but there was so much more too. I don't care if it's Octavia E Butler, I'm still going to be uncomfortable with it.
My favorite recent post-apocalyptic book was Station Eleven, even though it was too realistic in some aspects and kept freaking me out. lol
Babies grew soooo much!!!!🥺💖
They're getting SO BIG
I'm with you about this genre from a male perspective. Don't like the militarism and general nastiness. Why would I want that in my entertainment?
I loved Alas, Babylon.
Try hell divers but stop before book 5
I WANT #3! ❤❤❤
Have you read Aurora by David Koepp? I gave it 5⭐️ and think you might like it!!
ALL THE YES! 😅😇
Postapocalyptic books and kittens - this vid is pretty much tailored to me
Sending positive energy for your surgery you can do it I believe in you and it will go great ur surgery plus you feel better too and some course and strength xoxo 😘 🩷📚🩷🩵🩵❣️💞💜🌈📖📖💞❣️🩵❣️🪷🌼🌞💔💔🤎🤎💕🪻💛🤍🌾❤️❤️🌹🥀💖🧡🌷💔🌼🌞💔❣️🩵🩵🩵📚📚🩷🩷🩷🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩶🩶💜🌈🖤🖤🖤🖤
I LOVED The Last!
Omg you're gonna read Metro!!! I don't know if I should be happy or scared that you might not like it haha
And if you continue the series and don't like Metro 2034, Metro 2035 is so much better... (hence my fear)
I would even say, maybe skip the book in the middle? Probably not the best thing to do since the last book sort of ties the whole story together, but at the same time, the middle book was rather disappointing for me
Knowing that the author was inspired by the videogame based on the first book to continue the trilogy really goes to show the power of videogame storytelling, in my opinion
Thanks to the Metro series I got to truly bond with a very dear friend of mine, who is a fan of the videogame and suggested I read the novel, I did and I loved it, and we would do discord calls in which we compared notes between the videogame and the book, a lovely experience that I couldn't have had otherwise
Thanks for giving a chance to such an important book for me
The book unnamed of the midwife it is good and very intense I I enjoyed it too xoxo 😘 kept me on my feet 💞🌈💞💛💛🧡🪻🖤🖤🌷💜🩶🩶📙❤️🌹🌞🌞💕📚📚🩵📖📖🩷💕❤️❣️❤️💜💜🌷🌷🌈💞💞💞💖💛🩶🌞🌞🩶💞💞🌈💛🩶🩶💜💜📙🌷🪻🌼🖤❣️📙💜💜🌞🌹💔📚🪷🪷🤎🩵📖📖🌾🌸🩷❣️❣️📙
I loved The Last! I think we were the only 2 people to read it. 😅
LOL there's a handful of us but I'm glad more people will give it a shot!