DOOM books to read during lockdown for those who've had enough of Netflix

If you feel like reading during the apocalypse as you live through it, here are some pointers.

Feel free to add your own suggestions.

Ben H. Winters 'The Last Policeman'
A New Hampshire detective investigates a murder, while the world prepares for a planet-ending meteor strike. Noir-esque and a fascinating glimpse of humanity when it knows it's going to die.

Cormac McCarthy 'The Road'
Terrifying portrayal of a post-apocalyptic world, sombre and moody.

M. R. Carey 'The Girl with All the Gifts'
A fungal parasite (which actually exists) has jumped to infect humans, creating a planet of zombies who only react if you make too much noise. A group of children have somehow survived as zombies while remaining human,and this tells the story of one such girl.

Claire Vaye Watkins 'Gold Fame Citrus'
Somewhat left field, this one details a drought-ravaged California with a moving sea of sand preventing survivors getting east.

Karen Maitland 'A Company of Liars'
Historical novel about a band of travellers set in England at the time of the Bubonic Plague. As they try to evade the path of the pandemic, cut off at every turn, the strangers' secret sins are gradually revealed.

Brandon Sanderson 'Steelheart'
Far more light and uplifting, this trilogy about superheroes shows what would happen if the super humans were more despotic than kind.

Iain Banks 'A Song of Stone'
My fellow Scot's forlorn tale of a nobleman's attempt to prevail inside his castle after an (unnamed) apocalypse befalls civilisation, and a band of surviving military impose themselves on his people. Wordy.

Max Brooks ' World War Z'
Ian Punnet did a great show on C2C featuring this novel by Mel Brooks' son. Told after the fact,a journalist compiles accounts of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Highly realistic and very contemporary, the plague starts in China. Some great moments, like the Americans bugging out to the woods in RVs, thinking of it as a holiday, until the inevitable horror takes its course, and North Korea enforcing denture removal for all citizens to stop them biting.