If the sweeping arc from Project NOAH’s collapse through the Colony’s long road—Peter, Alicia, and the others trekking beyond the lights after the virals—hooked you, you’ll love how The Stand follows survivors of Captain Trips like Stu Redman and Frannie Goldsmith as they cross a ruined America to face Randall Flagg. The way Cronin scales from Amy and Wolgast’s intimate flight to civilization-level stakes mirrors King’s town-to-continent scope, complete with perilous journeys, rebuilt communities, and a final reckoning that feels as immense as the showdown at the power station.

Drawn to the world-after—feral nights, fortified enclaves, and the relentless press of danger that Peter and the Colony face against virals? Swan Song charts a similarly harrowing pilgrimage after nuclear ruin, following characters like Sister Creep and Josh as they band together against human and inhuman horrors. As in The Passage, the journey knits strangers into a purpose, communities form and fracture, and evil hunts the hopeful across a broken America.

If you liked how Cronin shifts from Wolgast and Amy to the Colony (Peter, Alicia, Michael, Sara) and beyond—letting each viewpoint illuminate a different slice of the fall—World War Z delivers that structure at global scale. Told through interviews from Redeker’s South African plan to the Battle of Yonkers, it echoes The Passage’s documents-and-voices approach, building the same shivery sense that history is being pieced together from those who lived it.

If Amy’s eerie calm and hidden power—protected first by Wolgast, then by Peter’s crew on the move—kept you glued to the page, The Girl With All the Gifts offers a taut, character-driven chase with Melanie, a singular child whose nature could doom or save humanity. As Miss Justineau, Sergeant Parks, and the team navigate infested Britain, the tense set pieces and moral choices echo the convoy sequences and desperate gambits you loved in The Passage.

If the Colony’s bonds—Peter, Alicia, and Sara risking everything for one another—moved you, Station Eleven spotlights a different but equally affecting family-by-choice: the Traveling Symphony. Following Kirsten Raymonde and their credo “Survival is insufficient,” it weaves together pre- and post-pandemic threads (Jeevan, Arthur Leander) into a tender portrait of how people, like your favorite crew guarding Amy, make home out of each other when the world goes dark.