If you have read everything there is to read in the apocalypse genre, then here is are two books that you probably haven't read. They both are excellent reads by up and coming zombie apocalypse authors, but seemed to slip through the cracks with popularity. If you are a fan of apocalypse fiction, then these two are both worth checking out. Did I miss one? Let us know a good zombie apocalypse book in the comments below.
The Wasteland Chronicles: Apocalypse
In 2030 a meteor hits earth and humanity struggles to survive. Then comes the xenovirus.
It turns men and animals into ravenous monsters. They are roaming the earth.
Humanity goes underground in order to survive. BUnkers. Caves. Whatever they can find.
And that’s where Alex Keener is born: Bunker 108. He’s never been outside.
When the xenovirus contaminates Bunker 108, he must venture outside the safety of the bunker for the first time. But outside there are Raiders and mutants. It’s a harsh post-apocalyptic world.
Soon, Alex must take steps to prevent the second apocalypse, one that could finish humanity off for good.
This was a great novel about the post apocalyptic world you could imagine happening in a Road Warrior type way—the Raiders seemed like the bad guys in that movie series.
Plus the mutants infected by the xenovirus added a good twist, as they acted as a second major threat to worry about besides the roving marauders.
Definitely recommend for any fan of Mad Max, Road Warrior, and any apocalypse novel.
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
This was an interesting apocalypse novel because it is an attempt to record the fall of humanity through the blog entries of a man that went through the beginning of the apocalypse first-hand.
That is pretty original, but what I liked even more is the fact that most apocalypse novels are post-apocalyptic—they do not document the fall of society, from the origin of the issue humanity faces through the onset of events that makes an apocalypse scenario inevitable.
You know, like the grid failing, food shortages, the civil society changing slowly into survival mode, where people will change in an instant in order to feed their families and survive.
And this novel captures “the fall” the precedes the apocalypse pretty well.
The author definitely did his homework and does a great job at keeping events real and proposing a very plausible scenario for how the apocalypse might unfold.
And I’m not usually a fan of long, drawn out apocalypse series, but I was glad to see there was a book 2 in this series coming out.