The Road appears in 24 book lists

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The Road appears in 24 book lists on Shepherd.

The best books to help you lose faith in humanity but still have a good time

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The best fantasy books to put some fire in your blood

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The best books to make you fall in love with horror

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The best books of riveting worlds

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The best apocalyptic thriller novels for when you really want to be scared

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The best speculative fiction that connect amazing world - building with carefully controlled prose style

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The best “what if” books that will have you thinking “WTF”

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The best dystopian books to binge read

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The best books about quests through a post-apocalyptic wasteland

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The best post-apocalyptic novels that capture the horror of an extinction level event

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The best novels of beauty and grit among the hardships of life

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The best novels about the meaning of family

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The best books that make our pandemic look mild

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The best books with plots so mind-bending they are scary

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The best riveting dystopian and post-apocalyptic reads you won’t be able to put down

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The best books to help you survive the apocalypse

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The best apocalyptic books of all time

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The best books that care not a whit about traditional plotting

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The best books that capture the inevitable bleakness of the apocalypse

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The best books about spiritual places

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