Recs if you like I Am Legend...

forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales - these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical

if you enjoyed / find yourself enjoying my strange plagues quest, you’ll find even more suggestions for further reading within the niche here!!!

you can enter a space. you are a regular guy, you can enter a room. you are a regular guy, you can do that transaction. you are a regular guy, you know how to answer the phone. you are a regular guy, you know what sleep is. you are a regular guy, you know what it means to be you.

all of these books have regular people as the protagonist doing all sorts of things, from kissing to killing!

as always, open to all suggestions!

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

we have always tried to predict the future. these books were written about a future that is now our past - their predictions vary in terms of accuracy.

as always, open to suggestions!

forever chasing the high of the first three seasons of The Walking Dead 😭 books featuring zombies & the zombie apocalypse.

psa: I do not agree with Nicki minaj’s political views

as always, taking suggestions!

Stories centered around isolation, being stranded, societal collapse, and surviving in the wilderness.

Apocalyptic and/or post apocalyptic books

The goal: to have the most comprehensive complete list of vampire books, fiction and otherwise, in the world. Then? I’ll read them all.

Please send recs <3

Tier 1 from the disturbing novels iceberg. Iceberg was created in response to the disturbing movie iceberg. These are the 'beginner' books with difficult themes and some gore.

Zombie reading list packed with outbreaks, survival, and the occasional accidental bite. Even the apocalypse has its awkward moments.

Stephen King is overrated, read these horror books instead.

💬OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS. Just comment and I will add.

Pre-, early and post- apocalyptic dystopias

A focused guide to vampiric literary lineages, from gothic whispers to modern pop culture bloodbaths, to show how the genre has mutated and evolved over centuries in the dark.

Reading order in comments.

Is this mostly poached from GoodReads and reddit? Yes 😊 Do I care? 😏

Bio-horror, zombies, medical experiments, folk horror & viral infections - if you have any recommendations, please lmk!!

Fiction about (maybe) being the last human alive on Earth — speculative, post-apocalyptic, dystopian

List of banned books from index

dystopian novels under 200 pages, including short stories

Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013

a collection of recommendations from the Made for the Movies forum

I found this list of vampire novels at the back of the Penguin Book of Vampire Stories from 1987. It's interesting to see how many of these have been remembered and how many were forgotten. (For series, I only included the first book)