The Walking Read - A group for zombies and post-apoc fiction discussion

As I was adding the Blood Soaked and Contagious series to the bookshelf, it dawned on me that it might be appropriate to add some non-fiction, micro-apocalyptic stories in here -- Night, Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, or First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. What do people think?

The Contagious series is very good, by Emily Goodwin.

Ah, but that's fiction, right?

Yes it is fiction. I don't know of any post apocalypse with or without zombies true stories.

Well, as the OP and thesis statement of this forum states, any dystopia or post-apoc stories are fair game -- zombies optional.

I think this is a fiction forum. Don't know of any true apocalypse. Dystopia maybe. But that would be history, right?

Well, the end of the entire world would be hard to capture in historical literature because everyone would be dead. But there have been many localized apocalypses. (Apocalypsi?) Jonestown (manmade), Galveston (natural), Montezuma's empire (manmade), Fiji during the flu epidemic of 1918, the black plague which was like a global half-apocalypse...And let us never forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

True. But those are not fiction.

Which is exactly why I'm asking whether other people, particularly the moderator, think certain kinds of nonfiction might fit in here.

Ok. I don't think by definition it does. What does anyone else think.? I don't think we even have a group here let alone a moderator. Yet. I hope it happens.

This may be relevant as background for anyone who enjoys apocalyptic and zombie fiction. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World