13 Apocalyptic Infection Books Like THE LAST OF US

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Vern is connected the tally from a cult, not a fungal infection, but the dangers coming aft her are precise real. Seven months pregnant, she takes to the wood and gives commencement to twins. But she’s being hunted. And arsenic her assemblage begins to alteration successful unusual and singular ways, it becomes much and much wide that determination was thing successful the h2o astatine the cult — thing that the cult leaders don’t privation getting out. Along with her babies, Vern volition person to fly the wood and combat backmost if she wants to exposure the radical who did this to her.

What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

The ways successful which fungi change the caput is 1 of the scarier aspects of The Last of Us, and it’s besides a cardinal taxable successful this fungal retelling of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” When a retired worker returns to his puerility friends’ home, some they — and it —prove to beryllium precise overmuch changed. Fungal growths situation a simmering water and possessed animals scurry successful the underbrush. Could these horrors person thing to bash with the changes taking spot to the Ushers? And, possibly much importantly, is it excessively precocious for Alex Easton to halt it?

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Wilder Girls by Rory Power

It’s not a fungus infecting the girls astatine Raxter; it’s thing else. But nevertheless the changes taking spot to the students and teachers determination are unusual and immutable. Quarantined from the extracurricular world, the surviving girls indispensable larn however to past connected their ain successful their unusual caller bodies. And erstwhile 1 of them is kidnapped, her 2 champion friends acceptable disconnected into the deadly wood extracurricular the school’s walls to find her.

The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

A miss named Melanie goes to people each greeting aft being awakened astatine gunpoint from her cell. Her teacher, Miss Justineau, is heartbroken anytime she talks astir her future. Melanie is told that she’s special. Dr. Caldwell calls her a genius. But what precisely makes her that way? And wherefore are each the adults truthful terrified of her and the different children? There’s a satellite extracurricular these walls. But erstwhile Melanie yet gets to spot it, she yet understands the horrifying truths being withheld from her each this time.

The Seep by Chana Porter

An alien penetration calling itself “the Seep” mightiness not beryllium the catastrophic lawsuit humanity ever imagined, but it everlastingly alters the people of Trina’s beingness each the same. At first, she and her woman beingness happily nether the Seep’s utopian caller society. But erstwhile Deeba decides to beryllium reborn arsenic a babe to statesman beingness anew, Trina is near down and begins to afloat self-destruct. The Seep can’t recognize wherefore she craves struggle and won’t assimilate to the happiness their exertion brings. Like The Last of Us, it’s astir an inextricably changed world, but its main absorption is connected the grief and quality emotions that travel on with that.

The Passage by Justin Cronin

When a subject experimentation is unleashed during a information breach, the satellite is changed successful an instant. The survivors bash what they indispensable to survive. FBI Agent Brad Wolgast knows that each excessively well. He’s inactive haunted by the things he’s done. But erstwhile the accidental to support a young miss who was portion of the experimentation that triggered the apocalypse is acceptable earlier him, helium feels it mightiness yet beryllium his accidental to bash thing right. And that means doing immoderate it takes to support this miss from those who acceptable this each successful question and those who would bash thing to get their hands connected her now. In presumption of a proxy dada fig shepherding a kid done the apocalypse, this publication is the closest it gets to The Last of Us.

The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow

A misunderstanding betwixt humanity and invading aliens led to wide demolition aft humans were deemed dangerous. Emotional look successful humans is present intimately monitored and controlled. Ellie finds solace successful keeping a concealed room of books and music, thing that is highly illegal. When 1 of her books goes missing, recovered by a lab-raised alien grant bound to crook her in, she assumes her destiny is sealed. But M0Rr1S finds himself falling successful emotion with quality music, and soon the 2 acceptable retired connected a roadworthy travel that could beryllium their salvation — oregon their doom. Road travel done the apocalypse? Hell yes!

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Following a pandemic that devastated the planet, determination are 2 types of radical remaining: those who are infected and those who are not. The uninfected are attempting to rebuild society, and their sights are acceptable connected Manhattan. Mark Spitz is portion of a squad trying to escaped the metropolis of the past of the infected, peculiarly the stragglers that beryllium successful a benignant of catatonic state. But coming to presumption with this caller world, particularly successful the grips of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, is nary casual task. Especially erstwhile things commencement to spell terribly, catastrophically wrong.

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Bill doesn’t person thing connected Beth and Fran. They past by harvesting the organs of feral men successful bid to guarantee they ne'er autumn to the aforesaid fate. But erstwhile they conscionable Robbie, different survivor, their lives abruptly go intertwined. Navigating the apocalypse and murderous TERFs is astir casual compared to dealing with the awkward caller dynamics of their small recovered family. But erstwhile you’re faced with the extremity of the world, you bash what it takes to past — adjacent if it means learning to spot different people.

The Genius Plague by David Walton

A caput controlling fungal corruption that imbues the infected with enhanced cognitive abilities tears 2 brothers isolated successful this dystopian thriller. After his mycologist member is infected by a fungus connected a travel to the Amazon, Neil notices it’s not conscionable his caput that’s different. Paul is moving toward immoderate nefarious goal. And he’s not the lone one. Throughout the world, much and much infected emerge, from regular citizens to full governments. And their 1 tendency seems to beryllium the eradication of quality escaped will.

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

Something unusual is taking spot crossed America: sleepwalkers, incapable to beryllium woken, are mounting retired connected a travel to an chartless destination. Shana, similar truthful galore others whose loved ones person go sleepwalkers, follows their way successful bid to support the small sister she can’t aftermath up. As fearfulness and unit leap up successful the aftermath of this unusual caller epidemic, it becomes wide that it whitethorn not beryllium the sleepwalkers but the fearfulness of them that threatens to teardrop nine apart.

The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

In a dystopian satellite wherever the Tiger Flu ravages the antheral colonisation and survivors effort to flight with exertion and drugs, a doctors seeks salvation for her dying household on with retribution against the patriarchal metropolis that brought decease to their door. A young miss hopeless to prevention her household from the pandemic mightiness beryllium precisely the solution Kirilow has been looking for, but earlier that tin beryllium decided they’re some kidnapped by a radical of men looking to cure the caput of the fragile quality assemblage it inhabits.

The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan (April 18)

Unchecked municipality development, clime change, and assemblage fearfulness collide to make thing genuinely unspeakable successful The Marigold. Something toxic is increasing underground — thing that threatens everyone successful the unfinished Magnolia condo successful Toronto. Following a formed of characters from the developers already astatine enactment connected operation of Marigold II to a wellness inspector investigating a toxic mold rotting the city’s infrastructure, this publication explores a fungal outbreak from each the angels.