This Is Not a Test
by Courtney Summers
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Pub Date Jan 13 2026 | Archive Date Not set
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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.
Advance Praise
Beautiful, bleak . . . [This is Not a Test] turns the concept of the walking dead into a haunting and thoughtful metaphor.” —The New York Times
“This Is Not a Test brought me to tears, caused me to gasp in shock in public places, and almost put a stop to my heart . . . Summers’ voice is raw with emotion, and utterly right for the impending zombie apocalypse.” —Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wake the Wild Creatures
“My favorite zombie novel.” —Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent
"Earnest and so terribly fierce, This Is Not a Test is a searing examination of hope and how to navigate through life when it feels as if it has all been lost. With sharp-as-teeth prose and her hallmark acerbic wit, Courtney Summers has completely eviscerated me. (Also, there were zombies!)" —Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781967967124 |
| PRICE | $17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
