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The Silence by Tim Lebbon

When the world falls silent, survival becomes a matter of staying quiet. A family’s desperate flight unfolds as new predators hunt by sound alone, forcing hard choices and fiercer courage. The Silence is a tense, breath-holding thriller that turns every whisper into a risk.

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In The Silence, did you enjoy ...

... nerve‑shredding survival built around a sensory predator and strict rules for staying alive?

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

If the Vesps’ sound‑hunting terror and Ally’s family drilling quiet, methodical survival tactics gripped you, you’ll love how Bird Box weaponizes sense and restraint. Malorie must shepherd two children down a river while blindfolded, because one glimpse of the creatures means madness and death. The tension—traveling by touch, counting steps, listening for the smallest wrong noise—echoes the way Ally’s household learns to live in enforced silence to avoid attacks.

... an intimate, family-centered trek through a ruined world?

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

If you were moved by the close, day‑to‑day bond of Ally and her family as they hole up, ration, and risk quiet journeys across the countryside, The Road offers that same raw intimacy. A father and son push a shopping cart through ash and threat, sharing whispered plans, scavenged meals, and hard choices—much like the hushed, small‑radius decisions that kept Ally’s household alive when every sound could draw predators or desperate people.

... a bleak British apocalypse where a child at the center may be both hope and danger?

The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey

If the grim mood of collapsing Britain, ambushes on quiet roads, and the predatory cult that targets Ally stuck with you, The Girl With All the Gifts delivers that same dark bite. Melanie, a gifted child, travels with a fragile group through an overrun UK, and every choice—who to trust, who to sacrifice—carries the same uneasy weight you felt when silence failed and the wrong humans proved as dangerous as the creatures.

... a UK-set collapse after a sudden catastrophe and lethal new predators that force humans to relearn how to live?

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

If the swift unraveling of society in The Silence—from first broadcasts to roadblocks, rural flight, and predatory opportunists—hooked you, The Day of the Triffids is a classic echo. After a global blinding event, mobile, venomous plants stalk a reeling Britain. The scramble for safe refuges, improvised rules for survival, and fraught encounters with new factions mirror the frantic early days when sound itself brought the Vesps down on Ally’s family.

... a resilient young woman navigating ruin with lethal competence and hard-won empathy?

The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell

If Ally’s calm, capable presence—reading lips, signing orders, and keeping her loved ones alive under siege—was what you liked most, Temple in The Reapers Are the Angels will resonate. She’s a teen survivor who moves through a devastated landscape with a knife, a code, and a wary heart, facing monsters and men with the same steady resolve that let Ally outthink both the creatures and the people who wanted to claim her.

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