Hello !
I’m looking for books with the same vibe as « Into the forest » by Jean Hegland or « The Wall » by Marlen Haushofer. People (ideally women) dealing with a post-apocalyptic society and/or having to survive by themselves in the wild.
It may be a bit niche but I would really appreciate your recommendations ❤️
Posted Aug 15, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC
If you've not seen the film, {{Bird Box}} by Josh Malerman. If you've seen the film, maybe just try it anyway?
Not quite fitting your desired themes, but some good future dystopian series' with female lead (heroine) all written by female authors:
Hunger Games (trilogy)
Divergent (trilogy)
The Girl Who Dared to Think (7 book series)
^(By: Josh Malerman | 272 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, thriller, dystopian, mystery)
Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.
Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?
Interweaving past and present, Bird Box is a snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.
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Oh I heard bad things about the movie but didn’t know there was a book ! Thank you ☺️
This is what you need
Thanks ! It’s funny I recently purchased it but didn’t think it had nature in it ! Definitely moving at the top of my TBR 😊
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{{Gray by Lou Cadle}}
^(By: Lou Cadle | 191 pages | Published: 2015 | Popular Shelves: post-apocalyptic, dystopian, fiction, apocalyptic, kindle)
A dense black cloud boiled up in the southeastern sky. It rose high and fast, like a time-lapse movie of the birth of a thunderhead. But it was no rain cloud. Wholly black, it reached up and loomed over her, blocking out the sun. Somehow she knew it was Death coming at her.
Pre-med student Coral is on a vacation in Idaho when something terrible happens. The black cloud is followed by a wildfire and searing heat that lasts for days. She survives deep in a cave but emerges days later to find the world transformed, a world of blackened trees, an ash-filled sky, and no living creatures except her.
So begins her desperate journey: to find water, and food, and other survivors...and the answer to the mystery of what happened.
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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank might fit. I haven't read the books you mentioned, so I'm not sure if it's exactly the same vibe, but it sounds like it has a similar premise. The main character is a man, but there are women in the main group of characters. It's a really great story.
Enjoy whatever you pick up next! :)
Never heard of this one before ! Thanks !
No problem!
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey.
The Future Second by Second by Meridel Newton.
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Thank you 😊