Books like The three by Sarah Lotz

A weary father and his young son journey across a bleak, post‑apocalyptic America, battling cannibals, starvation, and a harsh winter in a desperate quest for safety and a glimpse of remaining civilization.

Airframe, Michael Crichton's 1996 novel, follows quality‑assurance VP Casey Singleton as she probes a fatal in‑flight crash on a Norton‑manufactured airliner, uncovering corporate cover‑ups and the hidden dangers of modern aviation.

After a catastrophic flu outbreak devastates the world, survivors must choose between two leaders—an elderly black woman heading to Boulder or the sinister Randall Flagg in Las Vegas—setting the stage for a struggle between good and evil.

After a catastrophic pandemic, former actress Kirsten Raymonde joins a traveling troupe that performs Shakespeare for scattered communities, only to confront a ruthless prophet in a desperate quest for survival.

An unforgettable love story in a future overrun by genetic engineering.

The Passage is Justin Cronin’s 2010 debut novel that blends science‑fiction, horror, and dystopian themes as it follows humanity’s struggle against a virus‑transformed vampire‑like threat.

Kraken, a fantasy novel by China Miéville, follows a London cult obsessed with a giant squid, blending crime, magic, and museum heists into a suspenseful narrative that earned the 2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

After a zombie plague, a small squad of sweepers, led by Mark Spitz, clears the walled‑off Zone One in lower Manhattan to prepare the area for resettlement.

Two Survivors Must Set Aside Mutual Doubt to Navigate a Post‑Crash Wilderness After a Plane Crashes in Remote North America.

A mother's nightmare returns as she discovers her children are missing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and must confront the shadowy figure who murdered her first children.

When a sudden, citywide blackout disables every digital device, 16‑year‑old Adam must navigate a hostile world with his only reliable car, learning that survival depends on unlikely allies and the community’s collective resolve.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Four-year-old missing child found in grave 20 years later sparks a mystery in small Ohio town.

When a fog‑filled night stops an ambulance from reaching Genevieve’s child with appendicitis, her soon‑to‑be ex‑husband Paul must divert his helicopter from a London board meeting to a local hospital—only to lose control to a desperate murderer‑turned hijacker.

FBI agent Mark Beamon, exiled in the Southwest, pursues a deadly conspiracy after a millionaire family’s murder leads him from a Utah survivalist’s cabin to a cult‑like church and a high‑tech empire.