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A heartbreaking and highstakes story of queer love and survival set against the backdrop of a climate change apocalypse this book is Station Eleven and The Last of Us meets All Thats Left in the World by Erik J Brown

The world is about to end Again

Its been a year since a devastating storm ripped Lizs world apart Haunted by the memories of those she couldnt save Liz holes up in the only place she felt safe before her world fell away the bookstore where she used to work Now she spends her days trading books for supplies and collecting stories from the remaining survivors who pass by

Until she learns that another earthshattering Storm is coming and everything changes

Enter Maeve a spiky outoftowner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one night When Maeves secrets and Lizs inner demons come back to haunt them both they find themselves fighting for their lives and asking themselves one big question

As the end of the world approaches is there time for one final love story

A thoroughly original intimate and sometimes harrowing meditation on survival forgiveness and learning how to love again at the almost end of the world 1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon

Hopeful thrilling and twisty The Last Bookstore on Earth is the snarky sapphic dystopian of our dreams Jennifer Dugan author of Some Girls Do

A hauntingly beautiful story of love loss and the raw fight for survival Jarrod Shusterman New York Times Bestselling author of Dry

A vivid homage to books music and their power to unify and comfort Publishers Weekly

This stellar debut is filled with cynical and witty characters exploring the nature of and need for human connection Contains just the right amount of action a blossoming queer romance and a wellexecuted slow doomsday reveal Kirkus

Lily BraunArnold 2025 P Penguin Audio 2025