If you loved how World War Z used interviews—from Todd Wainio’s shell-shocked Yonkers account to Breckenridge Scott’s slippery spin—to build a global picture, you’ll click with the secretive interview transcripts and memos in Sleeping Giants. A nameless interrogator grills pilots and scientists as they uncover gigantic alien artifacts, and the story unfolds through terse debriefs, mission logs, and classified files. That same investigative, piecemeal tension you felt as the UN report assembled the truth is alive here, but now it’s wrapped around a mystery-mecha rediscovery that keeps tightening with every document you read.

Like how World War Z hops from Dr. Kwang Jingshu’s first encounter in China to soldiers reliving the Battle of Yonkers to civilians scraping by during the Great Panic, Station Eleven unfolds as a tapestry of lives before and after a pandemic. You’ll move between the Traveling Symphony’s performances, Clark tending the Museum of Civilization at Severn City Airport, and Jeevan’s early scramble—each vignette deepening the whole. It’s that same satisfying click of disparate stories aligning into a haunting portrait of a world remade.

If the worldwide scale of World War Z—from the Redeker Plan’s brutal calculus to the postwar reclamation of continents—kept you turning pages, The Passage delivers a similarly vast arc. It tracks a government experiment gone wrong (Project NOAH), the fall, and the long, hard generations after, as scattered communities fight to rekindle civilization. That sensation of history being written in blood, logistics, and sacrifice—so present in the UN’s global oral history—thrums through this epic as it leaps across time and territory.

If Breckenridge Scott’s bogus vaccine, state cover-ups, and the UN hearings in World War Z grabbed you, Feed dives headlong into that nexus of politics, journalism, and outbreak. Bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason embed with a presidential campaign where CDC protocols, bio-terror whispers, and data suppression keep colliding with the news cycle. The way World War Z dissected policy failures—from Yonkers’ media theater to Redeker’s controversial triage—finds a sharp, suspenseful mirror in this conspiracy-laced election trail.

If you were fascinated by World War Z’s aftermath—the retooled economy, feral-child rehabilitation, and methodical reclamation—Zone One lives in that weary grind. Following sweeper Mark Spitz through Lower Manhattan, it captures morale campaigns, bureaucratic pep, and the demoralizing slog of clearing stragglers block by block. It pairs the sardonic bite you heard in veterans’ Yonkers testimonies with the sobering reality of rebuilding, where the map looks hopeful but every corridor still hides a threat.