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2022 Challenge Prompts > A post-apocalyptic story

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message 1: by Emily (new)

Emily (emilyc) | 195 comments Mod
Read a story set after the apocalypse has ravaged the earth. What does the world look like in the aftermath?

Recommendations:

The Giver by Lois Lowry
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Stand by Stephen King
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton


message 2: by Megan (last edited Jan 01, 2022 11:28AM) (new)

Megan Oh | 4 comments I’m reading The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline for this one.


message 3: by April (new)

April Popelas  (aprilpopelas) | 2 comments I am reading - How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates!
On Chapter 7 in one day!
So good!


message 4: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca Kessler | 2 comments Going to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy


message 5: by Jessica (new)

Jessica | 4 comments I picked The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison.


message 6: by Karen (new)

Karen | 76 comments 1984 by George Orwell 1984
I read 1984 by George Orwell. I had never read this classic, but it is so much a part of our cultural milieu that, completely by coincidence, the vocabulary of the book was used repeatedly in a podcast I listened to the same afternoon as I finished the book.


message 7: by Erin (new)

Erin (thegigglingwillow) The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera ✔


message 8: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 25 comments I just finished The Last Cuentista for this prompt also.


message 9: by Nikki (new)

Nikki (mnnikki) | 164 comments This month our book club read The Book of M by Peng Shepherd and I'm going to use it for this prompt.


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