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226 past books matching Post-Apocalyptic
A strong match for readers who like system apocalypse LitRPG, progression fantasy, survival challenges, and power-focused character growth.
The Primal Hunter
Fantasy · Cyberpunk · Post-Apocalyptic
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A bestselling LitRPG series opener, The Primal Hunter follows Jake, an ordinary office worker thrust into a monster-filled survival tutorial after Earth is integrated into a vast multiverse. While others struggle, Jake discovers he thrives in a world built around levels, skills, danger, and growing power. A strong match for readers who like system apocalypse LitRPG, progression fantasy, survival challenges, and power-focused character growth.
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On just another average day, Jake finds himself in a forest filled with monsters, dangers, and opportunity...
It was a day like any other when suddenly the world changed. The universe reached a threshold humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse. A place where power is the only thing anyone can truly rely on.
Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into this new world. Into a tutorial filled with dangers and opportunities.
His new reality should breed fear and concern. His fellow coworkers falter at every turn. Jake, however, finds himself thriving.
Perhaps... This is the world Jake was meant to be born in.
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The last remnants of humanity drift above a poisoned world, surviving only through dangerous missions to the surface.
Hell Divers
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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The last remnants of humanity drift above a poisoned world, surviving only through dangerous missions to the surface. In Hell Divers, elite scavengers plunge from aging airships into the ruins below to recover the parts that keep civilization airborne. When a dive team enters a hostile zone known as Hades, they encounter a new threat rising from the wasteland, one that could destroy humanity’s final refuge.
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The New York Times Bestselling series is now available in Kindle Unlimited for the first time and includes an exclusive NEW novella at the end.
They dive so humanity survives…
More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers—men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.
When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. But there’s something down there far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past—something that threatens the fragile future of humanity.
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With 4.6 stars on Amazon and gripping, cinematic suspense, it’s a must-read for fans of Jack Hunt and Grace Hamilton.
Chaos Rising
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Lights out. Planes down. Chicago burns. In Chaos Rising, USA Today bestseller Kyla Stone delivers a pulse-pounding prequel to the Edge of Collapse series. With 4.6 stars on Amazon and gripping, cinematic suspense, it’s a must-read for fans of Jack Hunt and Grace Hamilton. Survive the first moments of collapse—download now and don’t look back.
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On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Reclusive former soldier Liam Coleman despises crowds and hates bustling downtown Chicago, but his twin brother and his pregnant sister-in-law need him.
Mere minutes after leaving O'Hare, their car abruptly crashes, along with hundreds of other vehicles. Phones stop working. Before anyone can react, the first plane falls from the sky, heading straight for Miracle Mile...
From USA Today Bestselling Author Kyla Stone comes Chaos Rising, the 85-page prequel to the acclaimed Edge of Collapse post-apocalyptic series, a riveting survival thriller for fans of flawed, complex characters and heart-in-your-throat action. Perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Jack Hunt, Boyd Craven, and Grace Hamilton.
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Best for readers who like epic fantasy shaped by apocalypse, oppression, revolution, and dangerous power.
The Fifth Season
Fantasy · Post-Apocalyptic
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Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award and called “intricate and extraordinary” by The New York Times, in a world where earth's power is weaponized, a woman with a secret ability searches for her kidnapped daughter amid global catastrophe and betrayal in The Fifth Season, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 41,900 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like epic fantasy shaped by apocalypse, oppression, revolution, and dangerous power.
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At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
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After a virus wipes out humanity, one woman wanders a ruined Britain with only a dog for company.
Last One at the Party
Post-Apocalyptic
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After a virus wipes out humanity, one woman wanders a ruined Britain with only a dog for company. Funny, devastating, and deeply human, her journey explores loneliness, freedom, and survival at the end of the world. This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel holds 4.3 stars on Amazon and is praised for its wit and emotional impact.
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December 2023. The human race has fought a deadly virus and lost. The only things left from the world before are burning cities and rotting corpses.
But in London, one woman is still alive.
Although she may be completely unprepared for her new existence, as someone who has spent her life trying to fit in, being alone is surprisingly liberating.
Determined to discover if she really is the last survivor on earth, she sets off on an extraordinary adventure, with only an abandoned golden retriever named Lucky for company.
Maybe she'll find a better life or maybe she'll die along the way. But whatever happens, the end of everything will be her new beginning.
A terrifically, dark and funny tale about one woman all alone at the end of the world, perfect for fans of Bella Mackie, Katy Brent and Dolly Alderton.
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Perfect for fans of The Walking Dead.
Contagious
Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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When a virus turns the world into a feeding frenzy, twenty-four-year-old Orissa Penwell must lead a ragtag group of survivors through the zombie apocalypse. Contagious (4.3 stars) by NYT bestselling author Emily Goodwin blends horror, grit, and heart. Perfect for fans of The Walking Dead. Click now to see why readers are raving about this post-apocalyptic thrill ride.
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Orissa Penwell thought she'd already hit rock bottom. Forced out of college and broke, she moves in with her aunt, certain things can’t get worse.
She was wrong.
A vicious virus tears through the country, turning people into ravenous, flesh-eating monsters. In a heartbeat, the world falls apart. Alone and untrained, Orissa fights to survive—but survival gets a lot more complicated when she’s thrust into leading a group of desperate strangers.
Haunted by her past and terrified of her future, Orissa must choose: help the living or risk everything to find her family.
With the undead closing in and humanity crumbling, she’ll need every ounce of grit to face what comes next.
When the world ends, what’s left to fight for?
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Volcanoes.
Devolution
Horror · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Volcanoes. Isolation. Bigfoot. Devolution by Max Brooks (World War Z) is the survival horror thriller you didn’t know you needed. Told through recovered journals and dark research, this 4.5-star bestseller explores the bloody truth behind a forgotten massacre in the Washington wilderness. Finalist for the Locus Award. Click now to discover why Bigfoot is not the cuddly cryptid you imagined.
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Mount Rainier erupted. Then something far worse came down from the mountains.
Devolution is Max Brooks’ gripping, genre-bending Bigfoot horror novel that blends survival thriller, investigative journalism, and blood-soaked suspense. Told through the recovered journal of Kate Holland and paired with chilling research, the story of Greenloop—a high-tech eco-community turned massacre site—unfolds in terrifying detail.
Trapped by volcanic devastation and cut off from civilization, the residents of Greenloop face something far more primal than isolation: a brutal tribe of Sasquatch with a taste for human flesh.
From the author of World War Z, Devolution delivers relentless tension, unforgettable characters, and a Bigfoot tale that feels horrifyingly possible.
Believe or don’t. But if Kate’s account is real… you’ll never hike the woods the same way again.
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In a world built on fear, innocence becomes a dangerous illusion.
The Girl With All the Gifts
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a world built on fear, innocence becomes a dangerous illusion. In The Girl With All the Gifts, Melanie is a brilliant child confined to a cell and escorted at gunpoint to her lessons, unaware of the terror she inspires. As the truth of her existence emerges, the novel explores survival, morality, and what humanity owes the next generation in a devastating dystopian thriller.
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Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.
The Girl With All the Gifts is a groundbreaking thriller, emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end.
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With 4.2 stars from over 1,400 Amazon reviews, this electrifying read is perfect for fans of rebellion-fueled sci-fi.
Chosen
LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
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One lottery. One dose of immortality. One girl who dares to defy it all. Chosen by Shade Owens is a gripping dystopian thriller where the privileged live forever, and the rest suffer. But this year, Silverstasia Blackwood is ready to fight back. With 4.2 stars from over 1,400 Amazon reviews, this electrifying read is perfect for fans of rebellion-fueled sci-fi.
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Good for readers who want dystopian science fiction focused on environmental disaster, political failure, and social breakdown.
The Sheep Look Up
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic · Speculative Fiction
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A Nebula Award finalist called “brilliantly crafted, engrossing” by The Guardian, The Sheep Look Up imagines a corporate-ruled USA where pollution, unsafe water, public health crises, and government corruption push society toward collapse, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want dystopian science fiction focused on environmental disaster, political failure, and social breakdown.
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Nebula Award Finalist: A "brilliantly crafted, engrossing" dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian).
In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkable—unless you're poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.
Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The "trainites," a group of violent environmental activists, want him to lead their movement; the government wants him dead; and the media demands amusement. But Train just wants to survive.
More than a novel of science fiction, The Sheep Look Up is a skillful and frightening political and social commentary that takes its place next to other remarkable works of dystopian literature, such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's 1984.
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Best for readers who like dystopian science fiction with survival stakes, buried conspiracies, and tightly controlled societies.
Wool
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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A New York Times bestseller called “claustrophobic and, at times, genuinely terrifying” by Washington Post, Wool follows Juliette, a mechanic promoted to sheriff in an underground silo where the toxic outside world is forbidden to question, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 53,100 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dystopian science fiction with survival stakes, buried conspiracies, and tightly controlled societies.
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“One of dystopian fiction’s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World." — Daily Express
The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo.
But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.
After the previous sheriff leaves the silo in a terrifying ritual, Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, is suddenly and inexplicably promoted to the head of law enforcement. With newfound power and with little regard for the customs she is supposed to abide, Juliette uncovers hints of a sinister conspiracy. Tugging this thread may uncover the truth . . . or it could kill every last human alive.
“Claustrophobic and, at times, genuinely terrifying.” — Washington Post
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This will appeal to readers who want post-apocalyptic fiction centered on community, resistance, magical realism, and art as survival.
The City, Not Long After
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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After a plague devastates the population, San Francisco's survivors build a peaceful community organized around art and creativity. When Jax warns that a violent general is advancing across California, she and Danny-Boy help defend the city, with a 3.9-star average from more than 1,100 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want post-apocalyptic fiction centered on community, resistance, magical realism, and art as survival.
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A chilling postapocalyptic novel of hope, despair, art, and war from the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of The Falling Woman.
A plague wiped out most of the population, but some have been spared. In San Francisco, those who were left—painters, writers, dreamers—began rebuilding the city in their image: a society based on art, community, and peace. But not everyone has the same pacifist ideals.
When a mysterious young woman, Jax, appears in San Francisco, she brings disturbing news. There's a power-hungry man, a general, moving across California, annexing cities and rebuilding his own version of America, willing to destroy anyone who stands in his way. His sights are set on the Golden Gate Bridge, and his army will soon descend, bringing guns, determination, and violence.
If Jax and her allies are to survive, they'll have to defend themselves with nothing more than their creativity—and the soul of a city that refuses to be dominated.
Drawing comparisons to the mind-bending work of Gabriel García Márquez, this lush and thought-provoking dystopian novel is an examination of human spirit, for better or worse, and a magical journey into what it means to survive.
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