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226 past books matching Post-Apocalyptic
Before the world fell, its architects planned the end.
Shift
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Before the world fell, its architects planned the end. In Shift, Hugh Howey reveals how technology, memory, and power collided to forge the silo. When one man uncovers the truth behind a secret project, he faces the price of saving humanity. A powerful, haunting prequel to the bestselling Wool series.
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THE BASIS FOR SILO, NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW ON APPLE TV
In this second volume in the New York Times best-selling Silo series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo— and the beginning of the end
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. The technology has an almost limitless capacity for good—but in the wrong hands, it could have an equally boundless capacity for evil.
In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.
At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall, and the ability to forget it ever happened. With this godlike power at their fingertips, can humanity be trusted to create a new—and better—world? Or is it doomed to bring about its own destruction?
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When the power dies, old conflicts turn lethal.
The Burning Hollow
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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When the power dies, old conflicts turn lethal. After an EMP collapses modern life, a long-standing feud resurfaces in the isolated town of Burning Hollow, Tennessee. Drawn back to the mountains he fled, Rowdy Banks must navigate survival alongside Chloe Bickmore and her child as law dissolves and trust fractures. This post-apocalyptic survival thriller explores legacy, loyalty, and how quickly order gives way to violence.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR & #1 POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION AUTHOR
“Not your typical post apocalyptic fiction, this has a great story line, excellent characters, and a gripping tale.” – JD, Amazon Reviewer
*With over 100K copies sold and 40+ million pages read, The Sunset on America Series has become one of the most popular post-apocalyptic thriller series to date—find out why…
When the lights go out, old rivalries turn deadly. The beginning of the end his here...
Burning Hollow, Tennessee has always been divided. For generations, the powerful Bickmore and Banks families have fought for control of the town—leaving scars that never healed. But when a sudden attack cripples the nation and a catastrophic EMP plunges society into chaos, that feud is about to ignite in ways no one imagined.
Rowdy Banks never planned to return to the holler that cast him out. Now, survival drags him back to the mountains he once called home—and straight into the path of Chloe Bickmore and her young daughter, Everleigh. Together, they must navigate a world where trust is dangerous, the rule of law is gone, and every choice could be their last.
But the past won’t die easy. Old grudges run deep, and in the ashes of civilization, power is the most dangerous weapon of all. To protect their families—and each other—Rowdy and Chloe must risk everything in a fight for survival where loyalty is tested, enemies close in, and the future of Burning Hollow hangs by a thread.
Fans of Kyla Stone, Franklin Horton, Jack Hunt, and Grace Hamilton will be gripped by this pulse-pounding, character-driven survival thriller packed with heart, grit, and the raw fight to endure when the world falls apart.
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Snark meets survival in Undead Dawn, the 4.4-star zombie thriller you didn’t know you needed.
Undead Dawn
Dystopian · Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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Snark meets survival in Undead Dawn, the 4.4-star zombie thriller you didn’t know you needed. When the bombs fall, bad boy Cooper Kane just wants to save his mom—but he’ll have to shoot, stab, and sass his way through the undead first. Fans of World War Z and Mad Max, this one’s for you.
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Fast cars. Fast women. Zero zombie survival skills.
When the world goes to hell, Cooper Kane is the last guy you'd pick for your apocalypse team. But after the bombs fall and Phoenix becomes ground zero for the undead, Kane has only one mission: save his mom—no matter how many flesh-eaters stand in his way.
Armed with sarcasm, stubbornness, and a ragtag crew that includes a sharp-shooting senior, a foul-mouthed survivalist, and a dangerously mysterious blonde, Kane fights through blood-soaked chaos across Arizona.
Undead Dawn is an adrenaline-pumping, darkly funny zombie apocalypse thriller where survival isn’t guaranteed—but attitude is.
If The Walking Dead had a smartass getaway driver and a killer soundtrack, it’d feel a lot like this.
The world’s ending. Try not to die laughing.
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Alex survives in the wilderness alongside a young soldier and a grieving child, but the collapse around them quickly turns survival into something more unstable, making this a…
Ashes
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
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Ashes begins with a world-ending pulse that strips away technology, safety, and any easy answer about who remains human. Alex survives in the wilderness alongside a young soldier and a grieving child, but the collapse around them quickly turns survival into something more unstable, making this a strong fit for dystopian readers who want danger, distrust, and post-apocalyptic tension.
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An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. When it happens, Alex was hiking in the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it's now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.
Author Ilsa J. Bick crafts a terrifying and thrilling novel about a world that could be ours at any moment, where those left standing must learn what it means not just to survive, but to live amidst the devastation.
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In Gilead, survival means learning the rules of a world designed to erase you.
The Handmaid’s Tale
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Political Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic · Speculative Fiction
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In Gilead, survival means learning the rules of a world designed to erase you. Offred lives under a theocratic regime that turns women’s bodies into state property, forcing memory, desire, and resistance into the smallest possible spaces. The Handmaid’s Tale is dystopian fiction shaped by political control, religious extremism, surveillance, and the terrifying logic of power taken to its endpoint.
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Now a Hulu Original Series
The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
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A planet rocked by earthquakes.
Broken: Nowhere to Turn Book 1
Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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A planet rocked by earthquakes. Families torn apart. Hope buried in rubble. Broken by Mike Kraus and Stacey Upton (4.5 stars on Amazon!) kicks off the Nowhere to Turn series with a bang—literally. Told through multiple gripping POVs, this post-apocalyptic thriller will keep you turning pages well into the aftershock. Read it now—before the next tremor hits.
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The world shattered in seconds. Survival will take everything they have left.
A series of devastating earthquakes rip through the planet, toppling cities, sealing bunkers, and killing millions in a matter of hours. The survivors? Scattered, desperate, and clinging to whatever hope they can find.
On a Virginia homestead, Mara Padgett fights to keep her three children alive as food dwindles and lawlessness rises. Hundreds of miles away, her husband Logan crashes from the sky and must choose between rescuing a stranded child—or racing home to his family. Meanwhile, Mara’s sister faces a harrowing cross-country journey through the ruins of a broken nation.
And beneath what remains of Washington, D.C., a buried scientist may hold the key to hope—if she can claw her way out.
Broken is a gripping, human-centered post-apocalyptic thriller that delivers destruction, danger, and impossible choices.
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From the author of How to Survive at the End of the World comes a hilariously bleak isekai where the chosen one arrives thousands of years too late.
Deadworld Isekai
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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From the author of How to Survive at the End of the World comes a hilariously bleak isekai where the chosen one arrives thousands of years too late. With 4.7 stars on Amazon, this offbeat survival fantasy blends deadpan humor, existential dread, and stat-crunching chaos on a lifeless planet. Paradise is canceled.
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Matt was supposed to die of terminal cancer. Instead, he got isekai’d—courtesy of a wisecracking truck-turned-avatar—and sent to a paradise world in need of a hero.
There’s just one problem: Gaia is dead. Like, post-apocalyptic, no-oxygen, welcome-to-sand-and-silence dead.
Armed with a full stat sheet, maxed-out survival skills, and absolutely zero context, Matt’s stuck on a barren rock with nothing to kill, no quests to complete, and no idea if this is some cosmic joke or the worst isekai placement of all time.
But Gaia might not be completely empty after all. And if Matt wants to survive—hell, if he wants to matter—he’ll have to turn a broken world into something worth living for.
Even if it kills him. Again.
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For readers who like post-apocalyptic M/M fantasy romance with monsters, danger, and violence.
Soul Eater
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a monster-ruled wasteland, Soul Eater follows a young soldier who survives an encounter with Wyn, a feared death monster known for leaving only husks behind. Instead of killing him, Wyn becomes intrigued, pulling them into an unexpected connection, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 11,800 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like post-apocalyptic M/M fantasy romance with monsters, danger, and violence.
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Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization.
One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own.
Including Wyn the Soul Eater.
He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks.
I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. And when I’m the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, I realise that… something about me has intrigued him.
But what is it? What could a twenty-three year old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood?
Soul Eater is the debut novel of Lily Mayne. It is the first in a planned post-apocalyptic fantasy series featuring monsters and human men falling in love. Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit content and is not suitable for young readers. There are also graphic depictions of torture and violence.
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Fans of Alas, Babylon and The Day After Tomorrow will devour Broken Earth: Destruction—a 4.5-star post-apocalyptic thriller packed with volcanoes, conspiracies, and survival stakes that scorch.
Broken Earth: Havoc
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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Fans of Alas, Babylon and The Day After Tomorrow will devour Broken Earth: Destruction—a 4.5-star post-apocalyptic thriller packed with volcanoes, conspiracies, and survival stakes that scorch. The sequel raises the tension as humanity claws for survival after a planet-wide cataclysm. It’s not the end of the world—yet—but it’s close.
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On a quiet Tuesday in July, the world ends.
Volcanoes erupt across Iceland. The Azores vanish in fire and sea. The Atlantic Ocean tears itself apart. Humanity reels, and the planet is plunged into chaos.
Former USGS geologist Ben Stone saw it coming—but even his worst-case predictions fall short. His brother, ex-Army Ranger Will Stone, must act before Earth’s magnetic field collapses completely. And whistleblower Max Ungle? He’s known the truth all along—and someone will kill to silence him.
In Broken Earth: Destruction, survival is only the beginning. In the sequel, alliances fray, resources dwindle, and the battle for humanity’s future grows fiercer with every aftershock.
The Earth may be broken. But hope? That’s still up for debate.
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A killer comet.
Meet Me at World’s End
Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
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A killer comet. A secret bunker. And one college freshman who might not be ready to inherit humanity’s future. Packed with survival suspense, slow-burn romance, and class conflict, this end-of-the-world thriller will grip fans of The 5th Wave and The 100. 4.4 out of 5 stars—apocalyptic sci-fi at its most addictive.
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When the end of the world arrives, Charlotte Hartland doesn’t get a choice—just a seat in humanity’s last-ditch cryosleep bunker.
A killer comet is days from impact, and soft-spoken freshman Charlotte is suddenly pulled from chaos on her college campus and whisked away by black SUV. Her grandfather, a powerful man with deep government ties, has secured her a berth in the Bunker Reservation Project—a desperate attempt to preserve human life underground.
But survival comes at a cost. Tensions in the bunker mount. Promises fracture. And Charlotte, caught between privilege and a crumbling system, finds herself relying on a cynical construction worker who wants nothing to do with her legacy.
If they can’t trust each other, there may be no future to wake up to at all.
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The award-winning Hell Divers series continues as X leaves the poisoned skies for the deadly seas.
Hell Divers IV: Wolves
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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The award-winning Hell Divers series continues as X leaves the poisoned skies for the deadly seas. Cannibals, monsters, and buried truths await aboard the Sea Wolf. This explosive post-apocalyptic adventure by NYT bestseller Nicholas Sansbury Smith (4.7 stars, 20k+ reviews) is now in Kindle Unlimited for the first time. Dive in while you can.
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They dive so humanity survives—but this time, survival means sailing straight into the unknown.
After a decade surviving radiation zones and hostile terrain, legendary Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez takes to the sea aboard the Sea Wolf. His mission? Find the mythical Metal Islands and secure a future for those still clinging to life aboard crumbling airships.
But the open ocean is no haven. Monster storms, mutated sea creatures, and the cannibalistic Cazadores stalk their every move. As truths about the war that devastated Earth come to light, X must navigate more than just the waters—he must chart a course through lies, sacrifice, and an ever-thinning hope.
Because this journey isn’t just for survival—it’s for the salvation of mankind. But can they make it before it’s too late?
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In Ruin by T.L. Payne (4.6 stars on Amazon!), the U.S. has collapsed into darkness, and survival means making brutal choices.
Ruin
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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In Ruin by T.L. Payne (4.6 stars on Amazon!), the U.S. has collapsed into darkness, and survival means making brutal choices. Book two in the Conquer the Dark series delivers nonstop action, high-stakes emotion, and a post-EMP nightmare you won’t forget. Grab this gritty apocalyptic thriller and find out who makes it out alive.
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The power’s out. The rules are gone. And the only law left is survival.
After a devastating EMP attack turns the U.S. into a battlefield of anarchy, Ayden and his sister Clara escape a crumbling New York with nothing but grit and each other. Hunted by enemy forces and surrounded by chaos, their only chance lies in alliances that may be as dangerous as the threats outside.
Thousands of miles away, Mia—Ayden’s girlfriend—is locked in her own nightmare. Trapped in Wyoming with a sadistic predator, she’ll do whatever it takes to survive... and find her missing children in the wreckage.
Ruin is book two in T.L. Payne’s adrenaline-pumping Conquer the Dark series—a post-apocalyptic fight for hope, family, and staying human in a world gone mad.
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