I think I’d disappear to the lake where all my favourites are. I like the soft folklore/Celtic fantasies of Juliet Marillier, Haruko Murakami’s Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Ben Okri’s Famished Road, LOTR likely read over and over with some old lit in between as a palate cleanser. I think I’d skip the dystopian and end of the world books I love currently. So no Hunger Games, Vonnegut, or Orwell. I’d probably have trauma I’d need to remedy with fanciful stories with happy endings.
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson. So good and well written/researched, but I learned that when it happens it’s basically the end of the world. 🤯
I love this prompt for thinking about books. I need to ponder more deeply on what my apocalypse books might be (how big is the bag? can I have a roller suitcase? is someone with me to help me carry more books?), but I offer you my French fluency in exchange for favourite Emily Austin quotes, as needed. ;)
I think I’d disappear to the lake where all my favourites are. I like the soft folklore/Celtic fantasies of Juliet Marillier, Haruko Murakami’s Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Ben Okri’s Famished Road, LOTR likely read over and over with some old lit in between as a palate cleanser. I think I’d skip the dystopian and end of the world books I love currently. So no Hunger Games, Vonnegut, or Orwell. I’d probably have trauma I’d need to remedy with fanciful stories with happy endings.
We’ll need all the happy endings we can get at the end of the world!
I love this list! Adding many new ones to my Goodreads and agree on those I know. And I love Thursday Murder club! It’s so sweet
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson. So good and well written/researched, but I learned that when it happens it’s basically the end of the world. 🤯
I have heard this was the scariest book of 2024! I have to get my hands on it!
I love this prompt for thinking about books. I need to ponder more deeply on what my apocalypse books might be (how big is the bag? can I have a roller suitcase? is someone with me to help me carry more books?), but I offer you my French fluency in exchange for favourite Emily Austin quotes, as needed. ;)