Devastating and horrifying, but brilliant. Best to read it before you have children.
Top Five Zombie/Post Apocalyptic/Supernatural
The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey
I’m not normally a fan of post apolocolyptic zombie novels, but this one is so good. Technically they’re not zombies; they are ‘hungries’. Twenty years ago, humanity was infected by a variant of fungus that causes people to lose their minds and eat human flesh, thereby becoming hungries. The small number of remaining humans are […]
The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
Never thought you could love a zombie novel?? This one, and its predecessor The Girl With All The Gifts, are game changers. Both are set in a post-apocalyptic world where a virus has turned the vast majority of humans into flesh-eating “hungries”. The Boy on the Bridge sees some of the remaining decent and not-so-decent humans […]
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
This disturbing little thriller will make you believe in ghosts again. Try not to be alone when you’re reading it at night. Seriously. It has all the best elements of Sigurdardottir’s writing; an isolated village in Iceland, a mystery with something deeply sinister at its core, and people being picked off one by one. Beautiful and […]
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
After the catastrophic events of what survivors call Last Night, what’s left of humanity try to impose order on Zone One, formerly known as New York. Our protagonist Mark Spitz is quite a beautiful bumbler, smart or lucky enough to have stayed alive after most people have turned into flesh eating zombies: “[h]is aptitude lay […]