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• Life as We Knew It

  Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-

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  Told in journal entries, "Life As We Knew It" is the story of a family sheltering for survival in a remote, idyllic home after a dramatic world-ending catastrophe: when a meteor alters the orbit of the moon, causing tidal and volcanic devastation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cabin at the End of the World

  a Novel

  Tremblay, Paul,

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  This one hits a lot of the same notes as "Leave The World Behind" - a family in a vacation home, some more-obviously-dangerous people trying to get inside, and overtures of something terrible happening in the world beyond. The writing here isn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fever Dream

  a Novel

  Schweblin, Samanta, 1978-

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  This one is all about the style. Told in a dialogue between two patients in a clinic, with a dispassionate narrative tone that makes the growing horror of their situation all the more uncanny. Full of dread and unease, the prose is purposefully…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Station Eleven [GRPL Book Club]

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  More literary sci-fi than horror, "Station Eleven" is another novel that takes place in the first days of the end of the world. Unlike the creeping dread of "Leave The World Behind," though, this one moves through time, following the intersecting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Children's Bible

  a Novel

  Millet, Lydia, 1968-

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  Another bad time in an idyllic vacation home, this time following a group of uncannily mature kids and teens, who band together for support when their parents fall into a drunken stupor and a massive storm threatens to destroy their home.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Passage

  a Novel

  Cronin, Justin

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  The end of the world in "The Passage" is anything but quiet, but it's certainly quick: thirty two minutes of catastrophic violence, followed by a new world where there's every reason to be afraid of the dark. More horror than mere dread, and a world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Thinking of Ending Things

  Reid, Iain, 1981-

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  Loved the sense of dread, unease, and anticipation in "Leave The World Behind"? This novel (which was adapted into a movie for Netflix), follows a woman on a trip to meet the parents of a boyfriend she's thinking of breaking up with... and then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dreamers

  a Novel

  Walker, Karen Thompson

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  Originally published in early 2019, "The Dreamers" hits a little different these days - the story of an inexplicable sleeping sickness that spreads rapidly and plunges Southern California into quarantine and chaos. This one follows Mei, a college…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Eyes

  a Novel

  Schweblin, Samanta, 1978-

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  Another novel that nails that gut-wrenching, claustrophobic atmosphere of "Leave The World Behind," "Little Eyes" is a dystopia without the apocalyptic part. A commentary on the pervasive presence of technology in our lives (in this case, with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Morning, Midnight

  a Novel

  Brooks-Dalton, Lily,

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  A little more reflective and ponderous rather than full of unease, "Good Morning, Midnight" similarly follows a small group of people cut off from a world that's gone silent, and the ways they navigate each other and a world with no answers to offer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Severance

  a Novel

  Ma, Ling, 1983-

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  What if you were so preoccupied with the day-to-day grind that you didn't notice the world was ending outside your office building? One part pre-apocalypse, one part absolutely searing satire about contemporary corporate life under late-stage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  Another story that takes place at the advent of the end of the world, in a remote rural area that's largely cut off from the rest of the world - in this case, an Anishinaabe community where the power goes out, and never comes back on.

• Leave the World Behind [GRPL Book Club]

  a Novel

  Alam, Rumaan,

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