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series7 books2009

Horror, about coming of age, set in big city.

“The Enemy opens Charlie Higson's seven-book YA horror series, set in London after a mysterious sickness turns every adult into a voracious, flesh-hungry threat and leaves children to fend for themselves in a city gone feral.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Enemy →

The TriffidsSeries

series3 books1951

Science fiction, set in our world.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
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Start with The Day of the Triffids →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Science fiction and alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

Zom-BSeries

series12 books2012

Horror, about race and racism.

“B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors of high school, making allegiances with anyone with enough gall to fight off their pursuers.”
from the catalogue

Start with Zom-B →

World War ZSeries

series3 books2006

Horror, about war, set in our world.

Start with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War →

RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

Horror, set in big city.

“The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Rats →

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