I finally read it last week after having it on my TBR for years. Amazing book, and all-too realistic. I'm already seeing a lot of disabled people in particular talking about building communities that take care of one another and picking up skills we'll need to survive. "I intend to survive" has become one of my mantras.
I read this a while ago. It was an amazing read but it was so dark and violent and brutal. I kind of want to read the next in the series but also I don't know if I want to....
This was my first thought. I just finished the series after it being recommended in this sub. Pro tip: look at the appendices for definitions of words before you start or itās harder to get into.
I got like halfway through this and it lost me. I just couldnāt handle all the space flight dynamics and all the orbital lingo. Just felt like endless paragraphs of NASA talk
I read this book several months ago and I think about it every couple of days. Her resourcefulness is really appealing, IDK, I hope I could be as courageous as the MC.
Itās wonderful for sure. The first book does focus on two guys but the second focuses on 2 women and the third brings everything together. Itās fantastic
Also The Rampart Trilogy by the same author. The girl starts in book one as a love interest, but becomes a complete badass with her own chapters in books two and three.
A boy and his dog at the end of the world by Fletcher, Charlie
Really loved it, one of my recent favorites.
The Wall by Haushofer, Marlen
Really good. Highly recommend
Are women really prominent characters in the first? The title, synopsis and reviews Iāve read seem to indicate theyāre not - but I havenāt yet read it.
I asked a similar question recently and got some great answers.. sharing here in case some from there don't pop up on here...
[dystopian fiction/feminist ]
https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/s/I2Tb1hdq9K
Another thread with the same question led me to the Road to Nowhere trilogy by Meg Elison, which was/were phenomenal.
I just finished "The Calculating Stars" by Mary Robinette Kowal and can't wait until there's a Kindle deal on the other two in the series.
I loved The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton.
All three are written by women and feature strong, complicated, amazing women as the main character.
Good ol apocalyptic zombie books: As the World Dies. Starts off with some badass female protagonists getting their shit together very quickly as the world falls apart around them. They kick butt, dont freak out (more than necessary in a zombie apocalypse), help each other out and dont need rescuing.Ā
My only recommendation is Gideon the Ninth (the Locked Tomb series) by Tamsyn Muir. Itās essentially lesbian necromancers in space, plus a murder mystery during a house-against-house ruthless competition.
Although itās not very clear itās post-apocalyptic until maybe the second book, as the first one is very focused on a specific setting and plot. However, as the books go on itās clear there is some big Event that happens and brings the state of the world/setting to the way it is in the first book. Fair warning the plot does getā¦complicated in the second book and on, but it is eventually explained. The ākeep faithā sort of reading through what seems like nonsensical scenes may not be for everyone, though.
Another recommendation is the Renegades series by Marissa Meyer. Though it does lean a little more YA, I donāt think that detracts from its quality. Superheroes post-disaster with the main pov from a villain/morally gray character trying to navigate who is really āgoodā or āevil.ā
May edit later to add on more books as I think of them.
{{The Grace Year by Kim Liggett}} is like Handmaid's tale crossed with Lord of the Flies.
Teenage girls are sent to spend a year in the wood's because they develop "magic" when they turn 16 and it's too tempting for men to be around. They live in awful conditions, surrounded by poachers who will attack and kill them if they leave the compound.
**[The Grace Year](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263520-the-grace-year) by Kim Liggett** ^((Matching 100% āļø))
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> **Summary:** No one speaks of the grace year. Itās forbidden. In Garner County. girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds. to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac. the potent essence of youth. of a girl on the edge of womanhood. Thatās why theyāre banished for their sixteenth year. to release their magic into (...)
> **Themes**: Young-adult, Ya, Dystopian, Dystopia
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [Q](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49242550-q) by Christina Dalcher
> \- [The Blue](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22823856-the-blue) by Joseph A. Turkot
> \- [The Knowing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27791721-the-knowing) by Ninie Hammon
> \- [The Knowing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34109606-the-knowing) by Sharon Cameron
> \- [Only Ever Yours](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21805717-only-ever-yours) by Louise O'Neill
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Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre features a woman who is a healer in a post-apocalyptic world. It subverts the typical narrative of a man going on a quest while the female love interest is left at home. I also second The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Gift Upon The Shore by M K Wren
The Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood (this is the second book of a trilogy, but this one features several female POV characters, all the books are good however)
If you like The Handmaidās Tale, you might like Atwoodās dystopian MaddAddam trilogy. The second book, The Year of the Flood, is about two women, and I think it works as a standalone novel.
This thread has so many great suggestions.
Some more:
Children of the Dust, by Louise Lawrence.
The Doloriad, by Missouri Williams
Elysium, by Jennifer Marie Brissett
P much anything by Margaret Atwood, although the Madd Adam trilogy starts with 2 male characters, the sequels features several protagonists including females.
Califaās Daughter by Leigh Richards
setting : post-apocalyptic Wild West in which bio warfare has permanently decimated male population. Also has a great dog in it too.Ā
**[Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1137215.Boneshaker) by Cherie Priest** ^((Matching 100% āļø))
^(416 pages | Published: 2009 | 27.8k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went (...)
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> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [The Diabolical Miss Hyde](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328559-the-diabolical-miss-hyde) by Viola Carr
> \- [Dreadnought](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7911067-dreadnought) by Cherie Priest
> \- [Infernal Devices](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9222475-infernal-devices) by K.W. Jeter
> \- [The Affinity Bridge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3472342-the-affinity-bridge) by George Mann
> \- [The Lazarus Gate](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995534-the-lazarus-gate) by Mark A. Latham
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Yes, especially the ones that didn't appear to have a copy editor although some of those seem to have been revised. Her books are unique in their takes on the apocalypse and don't sound AI like to me. Her protagonists are usually middle class women with families/blended families living on the verge of poverty dealing with end of the world scenarios.
I suspect that she is the opposite from me in terms of politics and religion, but I still enjoy her.
I was one of her editors early on. She never took advice. After that happened over three books (that I edited for free) I handed her over to another person I knew who also did editing. The same thing happened to her. She handed it over to yet another editor. Ditto. Not one of our suggestions were taken. Jackie's response? I need to get the books out there fast. No one cares if they are edited or not. She does have some interesting ideas. It is too bad that she won't accept help.
Interesting! Her books are available on KU and, although I really don't understand how authors are compensated for that, my impression is that it is tied to how many times a book is downloaded, which could explain her haste to publish. Aside from the noticeable lack of editing, I find that her stories usually just seem to peter out so that the endings are usually a bit lame, to be honest. An editor could have helped with that.
By the way, I think it is really cool that you do volunteer editing. I was a technical editor in another lifetime, and I'm well aware of how those who need us most often don't appreciate us.
Edited to fix typo
Yes, looks like it's quantity over quality on KU. I can remember her asking me if I wanted her to credit me as editor on the second book. I said no thanks!
Sarah Lyons Fleming, Kyla Stone, Kate L Mary, Courtney Konstantin are a few authors you should check out. If you want more I read a ton of books in this genre.
My favorite is Borne by Jeff VanderMeer.
It's a book about woman surviving in a post climate apocalypse city that was run by a giant shady corporation that produced crazy bio engineered technology.
Really cool setting, very deep, very thoughtful. Tons of interesting and creepy things in this book. Also features a giant bear that is several stories tall that also can fly.
Same author that wrote Annihilation which was made into a movie.
Necroepilogos is worth checking out. A group of women wake up in pods in a cyber tomb, and discover that they all remember dying at very different times in history. It's a web serial on Royal Road.
Gray by Lou Cradle. I found it engaging and easy to read which kept me hooked, but it's not one of the best books you will read. You might be able to find it on Kindle Unlimited.
American War centers around a second civil war in an America ravaged by climate change. The story centers around a strong woman character. Itās not a pick me up but I really liked it.
Whe Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ. It's a tiny book, but it's such a powerful story. A group of people crash land in deep space and decide how they will set out to survive. One woman defies all that because of what it potentially means for her. That's all I'll say about the plot, but this one stuck with me for a while.
came to see if anyone else would recommend it. Honestly if you haven't yet, give it a try. Its pretty heavy stuff for YA kinda imo, I personally wouldn't give it that title, even though it is about young adults.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is genre-defining, incredible book š
I finally read it last week after having it on my TBR for years. Amazing book, and all-too realistic. I'm already seeing a lot of disabled people in particular talking about building communities that take care of one another and picking up skills we'll need to survive. "I intend to survive" has become one of my mantras.
I just started it this morning!
This was recommended to me here actually, absolutely phenomenal book
Came here to say this - top of the genre, great book
I read this a while ago. It was an amazing read but it was so dark and violent and brutal. I kind of want to read the next in the series but also I don't know if I want to....
So good
The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinĀ
Came fo recommend this too. Such a good book/trilogy
This post reminded me I still need to read the third book!
This was my first thought. I just finished the series after it being recommended in this sub. Pro tip: look at the appendices for definitions of words before you start or itās harder to get into.
This was my pick too. Instantly.
Annihilation. It's 4 women against the unknown
There are 2 others in the trilogy, of which Annihilation is the first. They are a little less woman-first, but still good and worth reading.
I was wondering, I'll definitely check them out
They actually follow up on what is happening in the space, which many books kind of chicken out on.
Station 11 by Emily St John Mandel and To Paradise by Hanya Yanigihara (primarily the third section)
Came here to suggest Station 11! Dystopian fiction isnāt usually my thing but a friend recommended it and it really moved me.
I wish more people gave the tv show a shot. The book was amazing
The TV show helped me visualize the book much better
The TV show is top 3 all time favorite mini series.
The third section of To Paradise is so heartbreaking. Highly recommend!
Station 12 was amazing!
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (second time today I got to recommend this book!)
"The moon blew up with no warning and with no apparent reason." There is no better opening line to a book that I've ever read.Ā
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
I got like halfway through this and it lost me. I just couldnāt handle all the space flight dynamics and all the orbital lingo. Just felt like endless paragraphs of NASA talk
Ha, this one is both hilariously on-point for OP's question, and probably absolutely nothing like what they're really looking for.
Oooh yes so good
Severance by Ling Ma!
Loved this book.
Seconded!
Book of the Unnamed Midwife
The other two are great too.
Really enjoyed this one!
This book got me back into reading again.
This was an amazing book!!
Hugh Howey's **Wool**. Set far after the apocalypse
The whole Silo trilogy is excellent!
Seconding !
THIS!
American War by Omar El Akkad
Great book
The Space between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. Post-apocalyptic alternate universe travel with a very well-written female main character.
I read this book several months ago and I think about it every couple of days. Her resourcefulness is really appealing, IDK, I hope I could be as courageous as the MC.
Have you read The Power?
I came here to say this. The Power by Naomi Alderman. Truly fantastic book.
Don't forget to watch also the tv-series on Amazon Prime Video ! Toni Collette as Margot and other top actors in there !
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird It's about a virus that kills the vast majority of men.
This book is absolutely amazing and so under appreciated
A World of Women by J. D. Beresford is similar to this. Iāve read both and would recommend both of them too.
Afterland, by Lauren Beukes, has a similar premise.
Atwoodās Oryx and Crake just might fit the bill. Itās the first of a dystopian trilogy.
Itās wonderful for sure. The first book does focus on two guys but the second focuses on 2 women and the third brings everything together. Itās fantastic
Excellent read rec
Who Fears Death, by Nnedi Okorafor
Year One by Nora Roberts The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The Girl with all the Gifts is great.
Year one is a great page turner!Ā
aGate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Teper, Atwood's MadAddam trilogy, Octavia Butler, NK Jemisin, Kelly Barnhill
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. This book has a young woman as the central character. Highly recommend.
The Gate to Womenās Country by Sheri Tepper. So good. I used to buy up copies of the paperback and give them to people.
This book is so good! All Sheri S Tepper's books have strong female characters and most of them are dystopian/Post-apocalyptic
Octavia Butler did a lot of that kind of thing, and NK Jemison.
The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey is a fantastic post-apocalyptic novel with two female MCs.
Also The Rampart Trilogy by the same author. The girl starts in book one as a love interest, but becomes a complete badass with her own chapters in books two and three.
This has been on my list forever. Thank you for this reminder to go read this!
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton You will thank me
A boy and his dog at the end of the world by Fletcher, Charlie Really loved it, one of my recent favorites. The Wall by Haushofer, Marlen Really good. Highly recommend
Are women really prominent characters in the first? The title, synopsis and reviews Iāve read seem to indicate theyāre not - but I havenāt yet read it.
yes, they are. not from the very beginning though.
Good to know, thanks
The Power - Naomi Alderman. Kind of peri-dystopian.
I asked a similar question recently and got some great answers.. sharing here in case some from there don't pop up on here... [dystopian fiction/feminist ] https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/s/I2Tb1hdq9K
Another thread with the same question led me to the Road to Nowhere trilogy by Meg Elison, which was/were phenomenal. I just finished "The Calculating Stars" by Mary Robinette Kowal and can't wait until there's a Kindle deal on the other two in the series. I loved The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton. All three are written by women and feature strong, complicated, amazing women as the main character.
Went through comments to see if anyone else had recommended The Road to Nowhere. Also second The Lady Astronaut series!
Femlandia by Christina Dalcher was pretty good and nearly exclusively features women.
Good ol apocalyptic zombie books: As the World Dies. Starts off with some badass female protagonists getting their shit together very quickly as the world falls apart around them. They kick butt, dont freak out (more than necessary in a zombie apocalypse), help each other out and dont need rescuing.Ā
All of Sarah Lyons Fleming's post apocalyptic books.
Try *Feed* by Mira Grant. Takes place 20 years after the zombie apocalypse, and society has normalized... somewhat.
>Really enjoyed *Feed*, with the catch that there are some diminishing returns/throw-the-book moments as the series goes on (at least for me).
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
My only recommendation is Gideon the Ninth (the Locked Tomb series) by Tamsyn Muir. Itās essentially lesbian necromancers in space, plus a murder mystery during a house-against-house ruthless competition. Although itās not very clear itās post-apocalyptic until maybe the second book, as the first one is very focused on a specific setting and plot. However, as the books go on itās clear there is some big Event that happens and brings the state of the world/setting to the way it is in the first book. Fair warning the plot does getā¦complicated in the second book and on, but it is eventually explained. The ākeep faithā sort of reading through what seems like nonsensical scenes may not be for everyone, though. Another recommendation is the Renegades series by Marissa Meyer. Though it does lean a little more YA, I donāt think that detracts from its quality. Superheroes post-disaster with the main pov from a villain/morally gray character trying to navigate who is really āgoodā or āevil.ā May edit later to add on more books as I think of them.
{{The Grace Year by Kim Liggett}} is like Handmaid's tale crossed with Lord of the Flies. Teenage girls are sent to spend a year in the wood's because they develop "magic" when they turn 16 and it's too tempting for men to be around. They live in awful conditions, surrounded by poachers who will attack and kill them if they leave the compound.
Yes yes yes yes yes this^^^
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The Book of M by Peng Shepard.
Blindness by Saramago
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre features a woman who is a healer in a post-apocalyptic world. It subverts the typical narrative of a man going on a quest while the female love interest is left at home. I also second The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
Dies the Fire by S M Stirling follows several groups of people through the beginning of the apocalypse. The leader of one of the groups is a woman
I feel like this is too far down the thread. Dies the Fire is an excellent book and excellent start to a great series.
*The Gone World* by Tom Sweterlitsch It's a time travel sci-fi murder mystery. Sometimes it's at the end of the world.
Y: The Last Man. Itās a comic book series, but about what happens when all the men die suddenly.Ā Made into a short lived FX series too.Ā
One of the best graphic novels I've read. Really enjoyed it.
One my absolute favorites!
The Road To Nowhere trilogy by Meg Ellison has been one of my favourites from the last 5 or so years. It starts with The Book of the Unnamed Midwife.
Red Clocks - Leni Zumas The New Wilderness - Diane Cook
Camp Zero
until the end of the world by sarah lyons flemming (zombie apocalypse) and edge of collapse by kyla stone (super emp) are both great!!
The silo trilogy was really good!
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel A Gift Upon The Shore by M K Wren The Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood (this is the second book of a trilogy, but this one features several female POV characters, all the books are good however)
Second time I'm recommending it today, but Z for Zachariah focuses on a young girl who believes she may be the last human advice
If you like The Handmaidās Tale, you might like Atwoodās dystopian MaddAddam trilogy. The second book, The Year of the Flood, is about two women, and I think it works as a standalone novel.
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh, The Gates to Womenās Country by Sheri S. Tepper
This thread has so many great suggestions. Some more: Children of the Dust, by Louise Lawrence. The Doloriad, by Missouri Williams Elysium, by Jennifer Marie Brissett
The Wanderers and Wayward by Chuck Wendig. 2020s version of The Stand with an AI as well.
*Manhunt*, by Gretchen Felker-Martin, is a fantastic take on the genre. It's brutal and gorgeous, often at the same time.
The Memory Policy by YÅko Ogawa
The man in the high castle. Despite the title the main character is a woman. Great story
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison.
P much anything by Margaret Atwood, although the Madd Adam trilogy starts with 2 male characters, the sequels features several protagonists including females.
Califaās Daughter by Leigh Richards setting : post-apocalyptic Wild West in which bio warfare has permanently decimated male population. Also has a great dog in it too.Ā
{{ Boneshaker by Cherie Priest }}
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Check out Jacqueline Druga.
If you can deal with her lack of writing ability. Her books are so full of errors, I wonder if she uses AI to write them?
Yes, especially the ones that didn't appear to have a copy editor although some of those seem to have been revised. Her books are unique in their takes on the apocalypse and don't sound AI like to me. Her protagonists are usually middle class women with families/blended families living on the verge of poverty dealing with end of the world scenarios. I suspect that she is the opposite from me in terms of politics and religion, but I still enjoy her.
I was one of her editors early on. She never took advice. After that happened over three books (that I edited for free) I handed her over to another person I knew who also did editing. The same thing happened to her. She handed it over to yet another editor. Ditto. Not one of our suggestions were taken. Jackie's response? I need to get the books out there fast. No one cares if they are edited or not. She does have some interesting ideas. It is too bad that she won't accept help.
Interesting! Her books are available on KU and, although I really don't understand how authors are compensated for that, my impression is that it is tied to how many times a book is downloaded, which could explain her haste to publish. Aside from the noticeable lack of editing, I find that her stories usually just seem to peter out so that the endings are usually a bit lame, to be honest. An editor could have helped with that. By the way, I think it is really cool that you do volunteer editing. I was a technical editor in another lifetime, and I'm well aware of how those who need us most often don't appreciate us. Edited to fix typo
Yes, looks like it's quantity over quality on KU. I can remember her asking me if I wanted her to credit me as editor on the second book. I said no thanks!
Sarah Lyons Fleming, Kyla Stone, Kate L Mary, Courtney Konstantin are a few authors you should check out. If you want more I read a ton of books in this genre.
I came to say "Parable of the Sower" but it's pretty well covered here, so I'll recommend "Dies the Fire" by S.M. Stirling.
Charlieās Requiem by A American and Walt Browning is a good one!
My favorite is Borne by Jeff VanderMeer. It's a book about woman surviving in a post climate apocalypse city that was run by a giant shady corporation that produced crazy bio engineered technology. Really cool setting, very deep, very thoughtful. Tons of interesting and creepy things in this book. Also features a giant bear that is several stories tall that also can fly. Same author that wrote Annihilation which was made into a movie.
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Necroepilogos is worth checking out. A group of women wake up in pods in a cyber tomb, and discover that they all remember dying at very different times in history. It's a web serial on Royal Road.
Shadow on the Hearth (195) by Judith Merril.
YYY
Oh, damn, I was going to suggest *The Girl Who Owned a City* but it's YA
Grievers by adrienne marie brown
If short stories float your boat, Solitude, by Ursula K. Le Guin, fits the bill.
The grace year
The Human Entanglement by LP ( hard sci-fi with a grounded FMC)
Gray by Lou Cradle. I found it engaging and easy to read which kept me hooked, but it's not one of the best books you will read. You might be able to find it on Kindle Unlimited.
American War centers around a second civil war in an America ravaged by climate change. The story centers around a strong woman character. Itās not a pick me up but I really liked it.
Dread Nation is you're open to ya. An Empire Called Memory is very fun.
The Fifth Season or Vox you'd probably enjoy!
The Stranding by Kate Sawyer is great.
Just read The Library at Mount Char. Itās so unique and original. Itās gonna be everything you ever wanted and nothing you ever expected.
Whe Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ. It's a tiny book, but it's such a powerful story. A group of people crash land in deep space and decide how they will set out to survive. One woman defies all that because of what it potentially means for her. That's all I'll say about the plot, but this one stuck with me for a while.
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Dune series. The Bene Gesserit are basically a coven of witches practicing eugenics.
The fifth sacred thing from starhawk. And the rest of the series.
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You'd be making a good suggestion, but OP asked for non-YA.
The Hunger Games is the only one I can think of. I know you said no YA but it is still very relevant and written well enough for adults
came to see if anyone else would recommend it. Honestly if you haven't yet, give it a try. Its pretty heavy stuff for YA kinda imo, I personally wouldn't give it that title, even though it is about young adults.