11 Top speculative fiction books like Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

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Walk the Vanished Earth

By: Erin Swan

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotiona…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley

1. The Tricking of Freya

By: Christina Sunley

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A young woman obsessed with uncovering a family secret is drawn into the strange and magical histor… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sunley's The Tricking of Freya book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • fiction

2. Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before h… read more

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3. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

Similar categories in Justin Cronin's The Ferryman book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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4. The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more

Similar categories in Nick Fuller Googins's The Great Transition book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • climate change fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

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5. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Future book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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6. Camp Zero

By: Michelle Min Sterling

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Min Sterling's Camp Zero book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

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7. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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8. Aurora

By: David Koepp

3.79

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace a… read more

Similar categories in David Koepp's Aurora book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
"on September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison would turn on the generators at Pearl Street Station, in Lower Manhattan, activating America's first power grid. Human beings were on the path to total electrical …"

-David Koepp, Aurora

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9. The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more

Similar categories in Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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10. The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

3.71

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."

-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

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11. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

Cover of Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka

12. Self-Portrait with Nothing

By: Aimee Pokwatka

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s fron… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

13. How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more

Similar categories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Death has become a way of life"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Life is always easier for boys."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"She always preferred celestial objects to people."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

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14. The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more

Similar categories in Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

Cover of Wayward (Wanderers, #2) by Chuck Wendig

15. Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

By: Chuck Wendig

4.21

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to … read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Wayward (Wanderers, #2) book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin    Swan

16. Walk the Vanished Earth

By: Erin Swan

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotiona… read more

Similar categories in Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • climate change fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of In Universes by Emet North

17. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

Similar categories in Emet North's In Universes book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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18. The Women Could Fly

By: Megan Giddings

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social c… read more

Similar categories in Megan Giddings's The Women Could Fly book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. The Revivalists

By: Christopher M. Hood

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"The Revivalists is a thrilling, terrifying, surprising, and tender debut, written in such exquisi… read more

Similar categories in Christopher M. Hood's The Revivalists book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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20. Face

By: Joma West

3.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Life is competitive; all the best babies are designed now. Schuyler and Madeline Burroughs have … read more

Similar categories in Joma West's Face book and Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

19 best-selling fiction books like Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

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The Tricking of Freya

Christina Sunley

3.20

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The Ferryman

Justin Cronin

3.93

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The Great Transition

Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

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The Future

Naomi Alderman

3.86

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Lone Women

Victor LaValle

3.72

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Naomi Alderman

3.86

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Holly Gramazio

3.53

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