This Is Not a Test

Author: Courtney Summers

Description

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY ADAM MACDONALD AND STARRING OLIVIA HOLT

The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later in this revised and expanded edition of Courtney Summers's cult classic about a traumatized young woman forced to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Sloane Price knows there are worse things than the end of the world, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, the opportunity to escape her violent home life offers no relief. She's already lost the one thing that matters most—her sister—and now seems like the perfect time to give up.

But when she inadvertently ends up barricaded in her high school with five other teens, their desperate and volatile bids for survival force a series of impossible decisions. As the days creep by and the dead close in, Sloane must confront everything she thought she knew about life, death, survival, and sacrifice and—once and for all—make a choice.

Joined together for the first time in this special "director's cut" edition, This Is Not a Test and its novella sequel Please Remain Calm explore the forces that tether us to life—and to each other—in our darkest times.

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Reading Updates

I've read 3 books so far this year:

• Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
• The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket: Poems by Kinsale Drake
• The Last Witch by CJ Cookie

Current reads:

• This is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
• Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

On deck:

• To The Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage

Recommendations

Here are 10 horror books I am looking forward to next year:

1. On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield, 1/27/26
2. Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick, 1/27/26
3. A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James, 1/20/26
4. This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud, 1/27/26
5. This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers, 1/13/26
6. Maria The Wanted by V. Castro, 2/10/26
7. A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis, 2/10/26
8. The Fall of Iris Henley by Jennifer Graham, 2/24/26
9. Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer, 2/10/26
10. Cruelty Free by Carolina Glenn, 2/3/26