If you loved how Bill Masen and Josella pick through silent London, rig up safe havens, and tentatively plan a new community after the meteor-blindness and triffid stings, you’ll feel right at home with Ish Williams in Earth Abides. Stewart leans into scavenging, tool-use, and rebuilding—library raids, hand tools, and generational teaching—much like the commonsense survival you admired when Bill weighs farms versus cities and dreams of the Isle of Wight. It’s a quiet, haunting chronicle of civilization remade by a few determined people.

Remember Bill’s desperate dash out of London—fire, looters, the kidnappings by Coker’s faction, and the fraught road toward a safer homestead? The Death of Grass channels that same white-knuckle journey. As a crop blight starves the country, a small group pushes north through ambushes and moral quagmires that echo Bill’s brutal reckonings with raiders and authoritarian enclaves. If the tense, boots-on-the-road scramble in The Day of the Triffids gripped you, this will, too.

If Bill’s first-person voice—waking blindfolded in hospital, testing defenses against triffid stings, and keeping calm through routine—was what hooked you, I Am Legend is a perfect fit. Robert Neville narrates his fortifications, experiments, and lonely patrols with the same meticulous, laconic clarity Bill brings to navigating a blinded city. The solitude, the meticulous planning, and the creeping dread mirror those early Triffids chapters when every alley might rustle with danger.

If the stretches where Bill and Josella hunker down—guarding a safe spot, weighing whether to move on, and building a tiny circle of trust—stayed with you, The Dog Stars will resonate. Hig and his dog, Jasper, hold a makeshift airfield with a gruff partner, much like Bill’s small, wary households after the London exodus. The quiet moments of fishing, scouting by Cessna, and deciding who to let in echo the intimate stakes you enjoyed between triffid attacks.

If the image of triffids hemming in gardens and roadways—plants turned predators—fascinated you, Ballard’s submerged London will, too. In The Drowned World, lagoons, reptiles, and relentless heat transform the city into a primeval dreamscape, and Dr. Kerans feels the landscape pulling at his mind. That eerie sense of the natural world inverting the human order, so potent when Bill watches triffids herd the blind, becomes the central, hypnotic drama here.