Recs if you like The Day of the Triffids...

Fiction books featuring plants as a major theme. For the purpose of this list, fungi are honorary plants! All fiction genres here (though I am primarily a fantasy reader, so suggestions most welcome!)

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

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.

Much of the post/apoc genre is taken up by US-centric fiction, giving a very specific mindset & often a similar type of apocalypse. There's a strong focus on guns & military. Settings outside the US can provide us with unusual, diverse & interesting stories of survival

Sister list to: Zombie Apocs - But Not US-centric

Fictional settings allowed. Some books may cross borders, inc sections in the US. Allowance made for US indigenous authors

First of a series only

Suggestions welcome!

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Disability & Neurodivergency stories are rare in apocalypse & zombie books. I've found as many as I could!

As always, suggestions incredibly welcome! I'd love to round this one out!

Not intended as a list of good neurodivergent & dis rep (thou many of them absolutely are - lots are even written by disabled/ND authors! I just haven't yet read them all, so can't recommend every book on this list), but disabled or neurodivergent characters feature heavily in these stories of survival

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This is for the classics, the old and new, the lesser known books, the short stories and the translated speculative fiction. Sci-fi could be argued to be one of the best and most expansive genres out there - it’s just a matter of finding the right book for you.

If there is a series, I will only be putting the first book unless they are unrelated.

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!!

Books that often get overlooked next to big author names or better known works by those authors.

what it says on the tin.

books that centre around the apocalypse or the potential for an event to become apocalyptic. may include some dystopian books, zombie stories, climate fiction, pandemic narratives, and natural disasters. the story may centre on a single place rather than the entire world. not all of these were perfect reads but they were still interesting. contains only books i've read

At Nohara66's request, scfi books "without space and physics!" (Or as close as can be). Some of these do feature spaceships in the background or as a step from point A to B, or set within galactic empires, or once colonised worlds, but involve no physics and don't focus on life/travel in space.

A collection of apocalyptic and post apocalyptic stories that help us unravel the modern world

My recommended science fiction stories (stand-alone and series) that I think are worth giving a go.

Books where the characters have to survive in secluded places, away from civilization. The term was coined by Defoe's Robinson Crusoe but beside literary fiction this theme is often prevalent in post-apocalyptic fiction and sci-fi. This list interprets the theme more loosely and focuses on the practical side of survival, basically: less running from zombies and more building fences :)

Would you believe me if I said I wasn't of this world?