If that’s not enough for you, check out our lists on post-apocalyptic books from previous years. Who knows, maybe you’ll find something that is eerily predicative of the world we live in today. In a world where human meat is now legal, Tender Is The Flesh provides a terrible and horrific insight into what happens when social norms go wrong and the consequences the desire for food can have. All in the most brilliant way that leaves you hooked, makes you lose your appetite, and makes it one of the best post-apocalyptic books 2020. When the Memory Police threaten to take away a young novelist’s editor because of his memory of forgotten things, she begins to question what it means to forget and why remembering is so dangerous. Eerily similar to the rise of authoritarianism our world is all too familiar with, Ogawa’s imagined future may not be all that far off. But as her captor ruthlessly pursues her and all modern technology is lost to the power outage, Hannah and ex-soldier Liam have to navigate an unknown world to get back to the one they knew. The first book of the series merely introduces us to the characters and Stone’s unputdownable writing, and the other three only get more and more exciting. The only difference: the Man-Slayer Flu has killed off 99.99% of all men, and the few that remain are gripped with a desire to repopulate the world. Adam is the only man left on the west coast, and when he wakes up in a research hospital one day, he finds himself in a world with no governments, no order, and surrounded by a primal need he doesn’t quite understand. Amidst the meaningful impact of the story is a fast-paced dystopian world descending into a war that will not end until one side breaks. Yet Lu still manages to provide complexity to even her villainous characters. In a blend of Spanish and English, Oshiro weaves a tale of young Xochitl, who is burdened with the gift of taking in stories from her village members and absolving their sins. When the burden gets too much for her to bear, she embarks on a journey to give it back to the desert, finding a love that develops ever so gradually with a young woman who becomes an unexpected companion on her travels. Amid the battle, Bea and Agnes also need to fight the tide to maintain the relationship between mother and daughter as they continue to drift apart.
