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Good for readers who want post-apocalyptic survival with city walls, dangerous recruits, infected enemies, and long-series momentum.
Beyond These Walls
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
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Books 1-6 Boxset follows Spike, Matilda, and their friends as they leave the city of Edin for mandatory service beyond the walls, where diseased hordes and a brutal survival rate wait. Good for readers who want post-apocalyptic survival with city walls, dangerous recruits, infected enemies, and long-series momentum.
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Hyper-violent and possessed with a murderous rage, no-one knows where the diseased hordes outside Edin’s walls came from, but they all understand their single-minded purpose …
To spread their virus to the uninfected …
Spike and Matilda, as residents of Edin, are about to serve their six months of mandatory national service. Six months outside the city’s walls where only fifty percent of the recruits survive.
But they refuse to be just another statistic.
Whatever happens, they’re coming home.
At least that’s the plan …
What they’re yet to realise is their chances of survival will become the least of their worries.
Because things in Edin are about to change forever …
Beyond These Walls is a post-apocalyptic epic. Join Spike, Matilda, and their friends as they leave their city for the first time to face the brutal reality of national service. Some of them won’t return, and for those who do, their lives will never be the same again.
This box set includes:
Protectors - Book one of Beyond These Walls.
National Service - Book two of Beyond These Walls.
Retribution - Book three of Beyond These Walls.
Collapse - Book four of Beyond These Walls.
After Edin - Book five of Beyond These Walls.
Three Days - Book six of Beyond These Walls.
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Best for readers who like survival thrillers with multiple viewpoints, EMP fallout, family stakes, and questions about what remains after civilization breaks.
Nightfall
Post-Apocalyptic
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The Complete Series follows Detective Elijah Wade, astronomer Hannah Redman, and other ordinary survivors as a deadly sky event triggers collapse across a six-book post-apocalyptic saga. Best for readers who like survival thrillers with multiple viewpoints, EMP fallout, family stakes, and questions about what remains after civilization breaks.
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THE COMPLETE SIX BOOK SERIES.
Nothing will stop this father from finding his daughter.
Not even the end of the world.
Detective Elijah Wade is on the trail of a serial killer when the skies above Los Angeles erupt into the most spectacular light show humanity has ever seen. And the most deadly. His daughter is in a hospital bed on the other side of the continent, but where does his duty lie now? To her, to justice or to his species?
Astronomer Hannah Redman watches as her colleagues die one by one, victims of a lethal dose of radiation. Can she survive long enough to discover what’s caused the catastrophe and whether it will happen again?
Two sisters arrive at the family cabin deep in the woods for a gathering that never happens. An old woman finds she’s not quite as prepared for the end of the world as she thought and a Mennonite couple remain true to their faith even as the Great Tribulation unfolds around them.
Each of these unique viewpoints has a part to play as the series unfolds.
This series focuses on the individual stories of a range of ordinary people as they struggle to cope with the most deadly event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Themes include EMP, preparedness and an examination of the true nature of humanity when the veneer of civilization is suddenly stripped away.
Mankind is on its knees, and the clock is ticking.
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Good for readers who like survival science fiction, strange technology, harsh landscapes, and adapted frontier communities.
7th Sigma
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a desert Southwest territory where self-replicating, solar-powered machines eat metal and can tear through people to get it, Kimble Monroe has learned to survive without the tools most people depend on, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like survival science fiction, strange technology, harsh landscapes, and adapted frontier communities.
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Welcome to the territory. Leave your metal behind, all of it. The bugs will eat it, and they'll go right through you to get it…Don't carry it, don't wear it, and for god's sake don't come here if you've got a pacemaker.
The bugs showed up about fifty years ago--self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines. No one knows where they came from.
They don't like water, though, so they've stayed in the desert Southwest. The territory. People still live here, but they do it without metal. Log cabins, ceramics, what plastic they can get that will survive the sun and heat. Technology has adapted, and so have the people.
Kimble Monroe has chosen to live in the territory. He was born here, and he is extraordinarily well adapted to it. He's one in a million. Maybe one in a billion.
In 7th Sigma, Gould builds an extraordinary SF novel of survival and personal triumph against all the odds.
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Good for readers who want EMP survival fiction with prison chaos, rescue missions, revolt, and relentless action.
Dark Nation
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Dark Nation collects six post-apocalyptic books about an EMP blast that traps schoolteacher Molly, former Marine Colton, and five students inside a prison while Deb and other survivors face human traffickers, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 250 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want EMP survival fiction with prison chaos, rescue missions, revolt, and relentless action.
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The EMP changed everything. Now, survival is all that matters.
When a powerful EMP blast knocks out power across the country, schoolteacher Molly, former Marine Colton, and the five students they’re supervising on a trip are trapped inside a prison. Surrounded by hardened criminals and with no safe exit, it doesn’t take long for a riot to throw everything into chaos.
Meanwhile, Deb, Colton’s ex-wife, is lucky enough to fall in with a group of determined survivors. But her good fortune quickly turns into a nightmare when her people are captured by human traffickers, led by a vicious madman.
Molly and Colton must escape to safety with their students, while Deb is forced to lead her fellow survivors in a daring revolt. But in this savage new world, danger lurks around every corner. Is there any hope for safety as what’s left of society collapses?
Loyalties are tested, new bonds are forged, and survival is a daily battle in this new world.
This boxset contains books 1-6 of the Dark Nation series, a thrilling post-apocalyptic EMP saga spanning 1800+ pages.
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Good for readers who want literary climate fiction with survival stakes, family, and questions of what we save.
All the Water in the World
Dystopian · Historical Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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A 2026 Gotham Book Prize finalist called “Gripping...tense, delightful and rich with resonance” by Scientific American, All the Water in the World follows a family surviving on the Museum of Natural History’s roof in flooded New York, preserving artifacts while navigating dangerous waters to find safety up north, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want literary climate fiction with survival stakes, family, and questions of what we save.
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FINALIST FOR THE 2026 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE
In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.
"Gripping...tense, delightful and rich with resonance." —Scientific American
"Captivating...The setting, the detailed emotive descriptions, and nail-biting adventure are incandescent." —Library Journal (starred)
All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city’s flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved.
Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story—with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most – love and work, community and knowledge – will survive.
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Good for readers who like post-apocalyptic EMP thrillers, family survival stories, and fast-moving collapse fiction.
Days of Want Series
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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When an EMP attack destroys the power grid, college student Maddie must flee Chicago with an orphaned girl, while her brother Zach and mother Beth struggle to reunite in a chaotic world, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 560 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like post-apocalyptic EMP thrillers, family survival stories, and fast-moving collapse fiction.
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In an instant, everything stops. No lights. No phones. No transportation.
When an EMP attack wipes out the nation’s power grid and communications, college freshman Maddie Langston is forced to run for her life.
Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time. According to her father, she doesn’t have long before the city descends into chaos. She must leave the airport before it is too late.
The perilous journey out of the city becomes even more complicated when Maddie takes responsibility for an orphaned ten-year-old girl. Together, as chaos fills the streets, they must fight to survive in a Turbulent new world.
Maddie’s brother Zach has his own battles to fight as he struggles to get home to his family.
On the road to reunite with Maddie and Zach, Beth’s trip takes a twisted turn, but she won’t let anything prevent her from reaching her children.
Days of Want is a high-octane, post-apocalyptic, EMP thriller series.
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For readers who like EMP survival thrillers, prepper fiction, family protection stakes, and post-apocalyptic danger.
Surviving the Silence
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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When the power grid collapses, Surviving the Silence follows Stephanie, a mother who must reclaim the survivalist skills she tried to leave behind as cities turn violent and armed packs hunt the unprepared, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like EMP survival thrillers, prepper fiction, family protection stakes, and post-apocalyptic danger.
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Power’s gone. Rules are gone. Mercy is gone.
Stephanie thought she’d outrun her survivalist roots forever. A mom who built a life of normalcy for her twins, she buried every knot-tying, fire-starting, threat-spotting lesson her father forced on her. Then the grid collapsed. As cities turn into killing fields and armed packs hunt the unprepared, those buried lessons claw their way back. To keep her girls breathing, she must become the predator she once feared most.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to LitRPG apocalypse stories with brutal action, relentless leveling, overpowered protagonists, and flawed antiheroes.
Path of Violence
Sci-Fi · LitRPG · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a post-apocalyptic world, former criminal Aiden Wyatt uses his dark past and newfound supernatural powers to become Earth's most powerful warrior in Path of Violence, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to LitRPG apocalypse stories with brutal action, relentless leveling, overpowered protagonists, and flawed antiheroes.
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When the world ends, some men find redemption in the ashes.
Aiden Wyatt was a drug dealer, a thief, and a lost cause—until the System descended on Earth. Now, in a world where stats mean survival and monsters roam the wilderness, Aiden’s criminal past is his greatest weapon. After winning the favor of a cosmic overseer, he is granted an ancient spirit of intellect and a leveling potential most can only dream of.
But power comes at a price.
Haunted by his past and driven by a hunger for more, Aiden carves a bloody path through the chaos, determined to become the most powerful warrior Earth has ever seen. He’s not the hero anyone asked for, but in a world ruled by violence, he’s the one we deserve.
Brace yourself for a LitRPG Apocalypse packed with brutal action, relentless leveling, and a flawed anti-hero who refuses to quit. If you crave overpowered protagonists, dark worlds, and progression at any cost, Path of Violence will keep you hooked from the first kill to the last boss.
The System has arrived. The strong will rise. And Aiden Wyatt will stop at nothing to claim his throne.
For fans of Road to Mastery, Savage Awakening, and Victor of Tucson, this LitRPG fantasy is raw, ruthless, and impossible to put down!
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The catastrophe has already happened, but survival keeps changing the rules for everyone left standing.
After the Impact
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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The catastrophe has already happened, but survival keeps changing the rules for everyone left standing. In After the Impact, Nick, Christine, and Gabby face collapsing cities, fractured loyalties, and the emotional cost of enduring a broken world. It’s character-driven post-apocalyptic fiction built around survival pressure, found strength, and the question of who people become after everything familiar falls away.
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The impact was only the beginning.
Over 2,000 pages. Six books. One unforgettable journey into the darkest corners of human survival.
In New York City, Nick fights to stay alive as society collapses around him. In Louisville, Christine will do anything to protect the people she loves. And Gabby — still searching for who she is — is about to find out exactly what she's made of.
After the Impact is a sweeping, character-driven post-apocalyptic series that doesn't just ask will they survive — it asks who they will become.
Suspenseful. Emotional. Utterly unputdownable.
The Complete 6-Book Series — Over 2,000 Pages of Post-Apocalyptic Adventure
Book 1 — Shattered Skies
Book 2 — Crumbling Dawn
Book 3 — Beneath the Ashes
Book 4 — Shadows and Dust
Book 5 — Trial by Fire
Book 6 — From the Ashes
Perfect for fans of Mike Kraus, Justin Bell, and Tara Ellis.
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The Last Sanctuary turns the end of the world into a fight for the only home left standing.
The Last Sanctuary
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Last Sanctuary turns the end of the world into a fight for the only home left standing. When a lethal sickness collapses society, Raven returns to her family’s wildlife refuge with the skills to survive, but its food, fences, and shelter draw predators of a different kind. This apocalyptic thriller centers a fierce heroine defending her animals, her father’s legacy, and her last safe place.
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At the end of the world, the only refuge is the one you fight for.
Isolated at her family's wildlife refuge in northern Georgia, Raven longs to escape the monotonous days spent shoveling manure, hauling feed, and hosing down enclosures for bears, wolves, and a tiger. Then her father contracts the mysterious, lethal sickness spreading across the country like wildfire.
Desperate to help him, Raven journeys into town to get medicine, only to discover the outside world is swiftly collapsing into chaos. There are no more police, no more laws, and no hospitals. No one is coming to help.
The wildlife refuge she once resented now offers sanctuary: plenty of food, shelter, and the safety of electrified fences. Using the skills her father taught her, Raven knows how to survive.
But the threat is just beginning, for a dangerous gang tracks Raven back to the refuge, and they'll stop at nothing to take what she has.
Raven can run to save her life. Or she can stand her ground, risking everything to defend the animals—and her home.
*This novel is the expanded, significantly revised version of a novella originally titled No Safe Haven.*
Kyla Stone is the USA Today bestselling author of over 25 novels with more than two million copies sold worldwide in several languages. The Last Sanctuary is a companion novel to the Last Sanctuary series, which can be read with the series or as a stand-alone. Featuring a fierce, tough heroine readers won't soon forget, this haunting story of loneliness, loss, and courage is perfect for fans of A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World, The Last of Us, and Hunger Games.
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The zombie outbreak begins with a woman who wakes dead, thinking clearly, and surrounded by creatures that recognize her as one of their own.
Monster Nation
Dystopian · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Post-Apocalyptic
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The zombie outbreak begins with a woman who wakes dead, thinking clearly, and surrounded by creatures that recognize her as one of their own. Monster Nation fits zombie horror through its dual focus on Nilla’s uncanny transformation and Captain Clark’s fight to lead survivors as the American West collapses under an epidemic with darker forces moving beneath it.
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The second entry in this "inventive and exciting" zombie series that began with Monster Island (Publishers Weekly).
This is where it begins. This is where the end of the world begins? She wakes up alone and feeling like she's half-dead. She can't remember her name. She staggers outside, looking for help—and that's when she sees that the dead have returned to life, that zombies are running in the streets and devouring the living. And she's one of them. She isn't breathing. The zombies leave her alone. Because they know she's one of their kind. And yet she differs from the brainless ghouls around her in some crucial ways. Somehow she's kept her intelligence intact, if not her memory. And being dead has certain compensations. She has developed strange powers. She calls herself Nilla, and all she knows is that staying alive only gets harder after you die? Meanwhile the National Guard has its hands full with the worst epidemic ever to strike the American west. From California to Colorado every town, every city is being overrun. Captain Bannerman Clark isn't prepared for this. He's semi-retired and he hasn't fired a gun in years, not since the Vietnam war. Yet it seems there's no one else around to take charge. As the world we know collapses he must find in himself the brains, the guts, and the moral courage to lead the survivors to safety, if there's any to be had. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, shadowy players are just beginning to show their hands. There's more going on here than meets the eye, and Clark and Nilla both have parts to play in a game they can't comprehend?
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After an alien invasion wipes away the world they knew, two young outsiders find unexpected freedom in the ruins before survival demands they fight back.
Annex
Dystopian · First Contact · Post-Apocalyptic
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After an alien invasion wipes away the world they knew, two young outsiders find unexpected freedom in the ruins before survival demands they fight back. Annex combines post-apocalyptic danger, first-contact terror, and coming-of-age resilience, following Violet and Bo through a ravaged city where identity, friendship, and resistance become inseparable.
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"An exciting twist on a hostile-alien-takeover drama. . .exhilarating." -- Washington Post
"An energetic, nonstop adventure." -- Chicago Tribune
Independence Day meets Lord of the Flies in this "thrilling and imaginative" debut about two young outsiders forced to fight off alien invaders in a post-apocalyptic city. (Fonda Lee)
When the aliens invade, all seems lost. The world as they know it is destroyed. Their friends are kidnapped. Their families are changed.
But with no adults left to run things, young trans-girl Violet and her new friend Bo realize that they are free. Free to do whatever they want. Free to be whoever they want to be.
Except the invaders won't leave them alone for long. . .
This "warm, thrilling adventure about what happens after the end of the world" is for fans of Paolo Bacigalupi and Ann Leckie. (Cherie Priest)
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