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226 past books matching Post-Apocalyptic
Best for readers who like post-apocalyptic survival fiction centered on family, societal collapse, and a mother's determination to reunite with her child.
The Day the World Went Quiet
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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On Molly’s first day back at school, an EMP shuts down the power and throws America into collapse. As highways become graveyards and cities burn, her mother, Madison, must make a dangerous journey to reach her daughter. Best for readers who like post-apocalyptic survival fiction centered on family, societal collapse, and a mother's determination to reunite with her child.
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Molly’s first day back at school.
Madison’s first time letting go.
Then the lights went out… and America died.
Now highways are graveyards. Cities burn. And a mother must cross hell itself to reach her daughter before it’s too late. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps her alive.
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Ideal for readers of post-apocalyptic science fiction and sweeping quests.
Hiero’s Answer
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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On a planet recovering from near-total destruction, Per Hiero Desteen, a priest, telepath, and trained killer, has faced bloodthirsty tribes and extraordinary creatures while trying to protect humanity's survivors. Now his journey comes to its conclusion in a story completed by Sterling E. Lanier's goddaughter, Lucy Andrews Cummin. Ideal for readers of post-apocalyptic science fiction and sweeping quests.
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The world ended. People survived.
Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath-and a highly trained killer. Through his travels he has fought bloodthirsty tribes, met incredible creatures, learned unbelievable things, all for the sake of protecting the last vestiges of humanity on the remains of a planet that is regrowing after it was nearly entirely destroyed.
He has seen horrors and wonders. He has braved trials beyond belief.
And now, finally, his journey is coming to an end.
Finally completed by Sterling Lanier's goddaughter Lucy Cummin, Hiero Desteen's legend reaches its epic conclusion, more than fifty years after he was first introduced to the world.
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A strong match for readers drawn to bleak post-apocalyptic fiction about survival and the bond between father and son.
The Road
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Post-Apocalyptic
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A Pulitzer Prize winner and national bestseller, The Road was called “gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” by the San Francisco Chronicle. It follows a father and son traveling through a burned America toward the coast, scavenging for food and avoiding lawless bands as they struggle to survive. A strong match for readers drawn to bleak post-apocalyptic fiction about survival and the bond between father and son.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle).
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival fiction, resource conflicts, and characters forced to fight for their homes.
Dark Desert Rising
Dystopian · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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When a solar flare destroys every circuit on Earth, Lizzy's farm, which pulls water from thin air, becomes the last green place in Nevada and a target for armed survivors. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight, but Lizzy must learn to defend what she's built. A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival fiction, resource conflicts, and characters forced to fight for their homes.
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The lights went out. The desert didn't care. Lizzy built a farm that pulls water from thin air. When a solar flare kills every circuit on earth, it becomes the last green place in Nevada, and every armed survivor wants it. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight. Lizzy has to learn.
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A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival thrillers, large-scale disasters, and dangerous journeys.
The Family Refuge
Dystopian · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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After being laughed off the G20 stage, a scientist watches her terrifying prediction come true when a solar flare knocks out power across Earth. Now she must travel 2,000 miles through a collapsing country to reach her brother. A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival thrillers, large-scale disasters, and dangerous journeys.
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They laughed her off the G20 stage. Hours later, the flare she predicted killed every light on Earth. Now the scientist nobody believed must cross 2,000 miles of collapsing country to reach her brother, because being right was the easy part. Surviving it won’t be.
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Ideal for fans of the Terminator universe who enjoy action-packed science fiction, artificial intelligence threats, and post-apocalyptic warfare.
T2: The Future War
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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In the final book of S.M. Stirling’s T2 trilogy, Sarah and John Connor discover that Skynet has become self-aware and humanity's worst nightmare is unfolding. As Judgment Day unleashes global destruction, John leads the resistance against the machines. Ideal for fans of the Terminator universe who enjoy action-packed science fiction, artificial intelligence threats, and post-apocalyptic warfare.
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The Machines are awake -- and aware ...
There is no destiny but the one we have created ...
There is no turning back -- the future war is now.
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A strong match for readers drawn to post-apocalyptic survival fiction with a difficult father-daughter relationship at its center.
EMP No Power No Shelter
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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EMP No Power No Shelter by William Stone follows Charlie, who escaped her father's obsessive preparations at sixteen, only to find that those preparations keep her alive after an EMP disaster. A strong match for readers drawn to post-apocalyptic survival fiction with a difficult father-daughter relationship at its center.
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She thought it was just another drill. He let her believe that for one more hour.
Her father's paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left.
The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead mother's money on bunkers and guns. Charlie called it a prison and broke out at sixteen.
Then the disaster came, the kind that proves a paranoid man was just a prophet nobody believed, and everything his obsession stole from her became the only reason she lived.
In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, the father she ran from is the only reason she's still alive.
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This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
The Swarm
Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called “Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark” by Gabino Iglesias, this horror novel follows Detective Vicky Paterson and two private investigators as an off-cycle cicada emergence becomes a deadly invasion. A bizarre murder, a missing girl, and a shadowy cult intersect as survivors try to uncover the swarm’s purpose. This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
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From the bizarre and audacious imagination of horror author Andy Marino comes a harrowing tale of the insect that will herald the apocalypse …
"The literary equivalent of swallowing a wasp that's crawled inside your Coke can. Do yourself a favor and read this book." —Nick Cutter, author of The Troop
"Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark, this is Marino's best novel yet." —Gabino Iglesias, Bram Stoker award winning author of The Devil Takes You Home
It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When a bizarre murder case lands on the desk of Detective Vicky Paterson, it's just the start of her nightmare. On the same day, her young daughter, Sadie, is swarmed by cicadas emerging off-cycle from their seventeen-year pattern. Sadie barely survives, and her condition is critical.
Across town, Will and Alicia, two dysfunctional private investigators, are on the trail of a missing girl and the shadowy cult involved in her disappearance. But after the first wave of insects hit, they are forced to barricade themselves in a motel where they must work together with a group of strangers to outlast the invasion.
Soon the infestation is impossible to contain. Humanity rests on the knife's edge of extinction. And there is a terrible purpose behind the emergence —one that Vicky, Will, Alicia, and a small group of unlikely allies must unravel if they are to survive.
"Marino's work is unlike any other's in the genre—horrifying, complex, fascinating, and utterly unique." – Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of the Wilderwood series
"Relentless, brutal, and brilliant. An apocalyptic tour de force." —Craig DiLouie, author of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
"Marino has taken the safety of sensations away from me. Every prickle along my arm, the slightest buzz anywhere near my ear—it's all fodder for nightmares now. Suggesting your skin will crawl after reading this unnerving novel doesn't come close. Your flesh will fly away." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
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This will appeal to readers who want YA zombie horror with brutal survival choices and a protagonist willing to put others at risk.
If We Survive the Night
Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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If We Survive the Night follows sixteen-year-old Quinn, a resident at a treatment center for troubled girls, when a zombie apocalypse traps her and her best friend Keisha in a fight to escape. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 800 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want YA zombie horror with brutal survival choices and a protagonist willing to put others at risk.
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It's kill or be killed in this heart-pounding apocalyptic horror. The first book in a new series, If We Survive the Night combines the ruthless zombie perils of The Last of Us with the every-woman-for-herself angle of Yellowjackets. What type of person does it take to survive the end of the world?
Sixteen-year-old Quinn is used to being told that what she feels inside isn't quite right. After getting kicked out of multiple foster homes and narrowly escaping juvenile detention, she's undergoing therapy at a residential treatment center for "troubled" girls. Looking for a night of freedom, Quinn sneaks onto the roof with her best friend Keisha, and what she sees changes everything…
She witnesses the start of the zombie apocalypse.
As zombies, or "carriers" as the news calls them, infiltrate the treatment center, escape becomes crucial. Quinn and Keisha make a pact to leave together, but several unexpected complications screw up their plans.
As the girls battle the carriers and wrestle with their doubts about each other, Quinn realizes she has never felt more alive. Maybe this is exactly the kind of world she was built for. And part of thriving in this cutthroat environment means cutting off the dead weight – even if that means putting other lives at risk…But even if she's willing to sacrifice everything, can anyone really outlive the apocalypse?
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Ideal for readers looking for bleak zombie horror, post-apocalyptic survival, and conflict among the living.
Autumn: Aftermath
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called a “master suspense builder” by James Melzer, David Moody closes the original Autumn series with survivors sheltering in a medieval castle after a disease wipes out 99 percent of the population and the dead reanimate. The arrival of another group forces new conflicts over how to survive, with a 4.5-star rating from 140 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for bleak zombie horror, post-apocalyptic survival, and conflict among the living.
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It's been almost one hundred days since a killer disease wiped out 99% of the population. Three months since the dead reanimated. Survivors are few and far between now, and those who remain stick together to give themselves the best possible chance of continuing to stay alive. They are the last of the living.
A band of refugees has taken shelter in a medieval castle – a fortress that has stood strong for hundreds of years. Besieged by the dead, they only emerge when it's absolutely necessary. As autumn turns to winter, however, the balance of power slowly begins to shift.
The unexpected appearance of survivors from another group changes everything. They bring choice, and an alternative way of life which is a far cry from the world everyone has been forced to leave behind. Society as we know it has crumbled beyond repair and things will never be the same again. Some people are ready to embrace this change, others can't let go of the past. The choice is divisive.
Are we entering mankind's final days? In the aftermath of the disease, will the last survivors destroy each other, or will the dead destroy them all?
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A good pick for fans of YA dystopian science fiction, survival stories, ensemble casts, and romance woven into a post-apocalyptic setting.
The 100
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
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With humanity living on ships above a toxic Earth, leaders send one hundred juvenile delinquents to the planet to learn whether it can be reclaimed. The teens must build a community and survive a world they know only from orbit, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 5,900 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for fans of YA dystopian science fiction, survival stories, ensemble casts, and romance woven into a post-apocalyptic setting.
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Join 100 teens as they fight to survive on a barely recognizable Earth in the first book of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit CW TV series.
No one has set foot on Earth in centuries—until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents—considered expendable by society—are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life ... or it could be a suicide mission.
Clarke was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did.
Wells, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves—but will she ever forgive him?
Reckless Bellamy fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe.
And Glass managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.
Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the Hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication.
The First Week
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past.
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past.
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