Recs if you like The Dog Stars...
hopeful post-apocalypse
also known as “cozy catastrophes,” these are books that deal with a post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian world but are still hopeful, uplifting, or just leave you with more of a postive feeling!
Survivalist Fiction
Stories centered around isolation, being stranded, societal collapse, and surviving in the wilderness.
book adaptations announced for 2026-27
The book girlies are seeing their favourite characters on screen this year so if you didn’t know or want to be ahead of the game and prep, this list is here. This list includes tv adaptations and movies so if you’re curious make sure to see if it’s streaming or theatre release.
P.s. I’m including books whose adaptations already came out this year so far
Books with movie adaptations in 2026!
These are the books that are going to be adapted as films this year. Let me know in the comments if there are more I didn't add!
A boy and his, er, dog? Best animal companions
YA and adult sci-fi/fantasy. Comment with suggestions!
One Is the Loneliest Number
Fiction about (maybe) being the last human alive on Earth — speculative, post-apocalyptic, dystopian
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Fiction)
Books that are set in worlds that are either in the midst of facing world ending catastrophes or shortly there after. This list focuses on books that show how humans evolve and survive given the new circumstances they're in.
As always, open to suggestions for additions to the list! 🙂
Made for the Movies, Vol. II
a collection of recommendations from the Made for the Movies forum
It's the End of the World!
Apocolyptic fiction for all the readers opting to trade our dystopia for a different one. Typically jam-packed full of zombies, and fallout, and viruses, oh my!
This Book is Highly Contagious
These books will involve some sort of viral outbreak. Suggestions welcome!
upcoming book to screen adaptations
Books to read before the adaptations come out! (movies and series!)
I send a pestilence and plague
into your house into your bed into your streams into your streets into your drink into your bread upon your cattle on your sheep upon your oxen in your field into your dreams into your sleep until you break until you yield
Pandemic, but chic
Literary loneliness of a pandemic world
Book to Film
Books that have been made into a TV series or Movie
Books Becoming Movies or Shows in 2026
Read the book before the movie comes out
Read The States Challenge - Colorado
This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!
NYT Reader’s Choice: Top 100 Thrillers of the Cent
August 2026 Reader’s choice of the best 100 thrillers All I gotta say is the definitely didn’t ask me. 🤷🏻♀️
Book to Movie 2026
New book to movie adaptations to read before watching ✨
Page to Screen
Books that are becoming/ have become TV shows or Movies
As The World Caves In
apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
