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615 past books matching Dystopian
After an EMP destroys the power grid, Caroline Thompson fights to reach her family trapped in a collapsing city.
The Last Ranch
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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After an EMP destroys the power grid, Caroline Thompson fights to reach her family trapped in a collapsing city. But survival on their Texas ranch becomes the ultimate test when looters close in. The Last Ranch is a tense, emotional post-apocalyptic thriller with 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.4 on Goodreads.
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When an electromagnetic pulse destroys the power grid, civilization collapses in an instant. Caroline Thompson is alone on her family’s remote ranch, cut off from her husband and son who are stranded in Fort Worth as violence consumes the city. With no power, no law, and no way to call for help, she must fight her way through the chaos to bring them home.
Reuniting her family is only the beginning. As looters and desperate survivors close in, the Thompsons must defend their land against those who would take everything they have left.
The Last Ranch is a gripping post-apocalyptic thriller of courage, survival, and the strength of one family standing against the fall of civilization. 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.4 on Goodreads.
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The end of the world leaves no room for safety, certainty, or choice.
Last Light
Dystopian · Romance · Post-Apocalyptic
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The end of the world leaves no room for safety, certainty, or choice. After losing the last of her family, a young woman must cross the ruins of multiple states with the only person willing to help her survive. Travis is distant, guarded, and essential to staying alive. As danger closes in, trust becomes both a necessity and a risk. Last Light is a post-apocalyptic romance shaped by survival, dependence, and fragile connection.
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It only took four years for the world to fall apart.
Now the last member of my family has died, and I'm forced to travel across what's left of three states to find the only people I know left alive. To survive, I'll have to scavenge food and supplies and try to avoid violent men who've learned they can take what they want by force. The only way I'm going to make it is by trusting Travis.
Travis used to fix my car, and now he's all I have left in the world. He's gruff and stoic and unfriendly, and I don't really know or like him. But he's all I have left. He'll keep me safe. We'll take care of each other. Until we reach what's left of our town and can finally let go of one another.
Last Light is a standalone post-apocalyptic romance set in the near future after a global catastrophe.
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After the eruption that buried the world in ash, Aria and Cole are all that remain of her family.
In the Ashes: A Post-Apocalyptic Romance
Dystopian · Romance · Post-Apocalyptic
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After the eruption that buried the world in ash, Aria and Cole are all that remain of her family. He wants to find safety beyond the ruins, but she cannot imagine surviving without him. When love becomes her only anchor in a collapsing world, Aria must decide if holding on will save them or tear them apart.
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A year after the eruption that turned cities to ash, Aria survives in the ruins with only her dying mother and her sister’s ex-boyfriend, Cole. When her mother passes, the silence of their shattered world becomes unbearable. Cole insists they must leave her childhood home to seek safety, but Aria knows the only place she feels safe is with him.
As hunger and danger press closer, Aria’s love becomes both her refuge and her risk. Together, she and Cole navigate a broken landscape filled with grief, memory, and the faint hope of rebuilding what was lost. To stay alive, they must face the fire still burning inside them.
In the Ashes by Vada Ryan is a gripping post-apocalyptic romance rated 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads.
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In a crumbling world, a woman called unworthy writes her story from within a secretive convent where obedience is survival.
The Unworthy
Horror · Dystopian · Thriller · Hispanic Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In a crumbling world, a woman called unworthy writes her story from within a secretive convent where obedience is survival. When a stranger arrives, forbidden memories rise, and faith turns to fear. The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender Is the Flesh, is a searing work of feminist horror and dystopian devotion.
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She writes her story in dirt, ink, and blood.
Inside the walls of the Sacred Sisterhood, a woman known only as an unworthy obeys, suffers, and prays for ascension. The Enlightened rule in silence, the Superior Sister watches all, and outside, the world collapses—cities drowned, survivors scavenging in the ruins. Within the convent, devotion is survival.
But when a stranger arrives, memories stir of a life forgotten and a truth too dangerous to name. Obedience turns to doubt, and safety becomes its own cage.
From the author of Tender Is the Flesh, The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica is a haunting novel of faith, violence, and control—literary horror that confronts the price of salvation in a world already damned. A national bestseller.
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In a fragile utopia rebuilt after the climate crisis, a daughter searches for her missing mother, a hero now accused of murder.
The Great Transition
Dystopian · Mystery
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In a fragile utopia rebuilt after the climate crisis, a daughter searches for her missing mother, a hero now accused of murder. The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins blends hope, mystery, and memory in a gripping debut, praised with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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When the world was saved, no one asked what it would cost.
Emi Vargas has grown up in a new era, one rebuilt from the ashes of climate catastrophe. Her parents were heroes of The Great Transition, the movement that stopped the planet from collapsing. But when her mother is accused in a shocking assassination and vanishes without a trace, Emi’s faith in their perfect world fractures.
Together with her father, Emi journeys from Greenland to the drowned ruins of New York City in search of the truth. Each discovery pulls her deeper into her family’s past and the choices that changed humanity’s fate.
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins is a visionary climate thriller with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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In a future built on control, one man’s memories become an act of defiance.
Lucid
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
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In a future built on control, one man’s memories become an act of defiance. When Antony Sartori begins to see cracks in his reality, he must choose between obedience and truth. Lucid is a haunting dystopian thriller by Michael S. Milano, praised with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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When truth is outlawed, waking up becomes rebellion.
Seattle, 2084. Antony Sartori once believed in order, unity, and the system that promised safety. Now, grieving and adrift after losing his wife to a pandemic, he moves through a world ruled by control. One night, a single mistake breaks his routine. Detained past curfew, tried, and beaten by the authority he served, Antony begins to question everything.
As fragments of memory blur with flashes of another reality, he must decide whether his mind is fracturing or awakening. Every reminder to conform only fuels his defiance, pushing him toward a truth more dangerous than the regime itself.
With 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads, Lucid is a chilling dystopian thriller for fans of Orwellian futures and hard science fiction.
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In a future Paris where wrong thoughts mean death, a loyal Peacekeeper goes undercover to destroy a rebellion.
Resistance
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a future Paris where wrong thoughts mean death, a loyal Peacekeeper goes undercover to destroy a rebellion. Forced into a new identity, she begins to question the system she was raised to protect. This award-winning dystopian novel explores loyalty, control, and the cost of engineered perfection, earning 4.1 stars on Amazon and praise for its originality.
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Winner of a OneBookTwo Standout Award and Semi-finalist in Hugh Howey's inaugural SPSFC
A unique story of a divided population in a false utopia, 'Resistance' is the first book in the completed dystopian trilogy, 'Divided Elements'.
From the moment you are born, you are conditioned to know this truth: Unorthodoxy is wrong action, Heterodoxy is wrong thought. The first will lead to your Detention. The second to your Execution.
A century from now, the walled city-state of a future Paris is enjoying its Golden Age. The horrors of the Singularity forgotten, citizens revel in an intoxicating mix of abandon and apathy made possible by the Orthodoxy—a new world order where everything is engineered for maximum efficiency, including identities. Dividing the population into four neuro-social classes has allowed the government to maintain control and ensure its citizens exist in complete equality, fraternity, and liberty. But, not everyone is satisfied with the status quo.
Anaiya, a Peacekeeper aligned to the single-minded Fire class, has dedicated her life to enforcing the rules. Unlike other citizens, she has extra motivation to prove herself loyal: she’s still tarnished by the legacy of her Heterodox mentor, the infamous Kane 148. So, when forbidden murals start appearing on crumbling walls calling for citizens to rebel, Anaiya will do anything to bring down the growing resistance movement—even if it means sacrificing her identity.
Realigned from her proud Fire identity to an irrational and unpredictable Air, Anaiya goes deep undercover in search of the growing rebellion. But, with her dual nature pulling her in opposite directions and her mind fracturing under the pressure, her convictions waver and her hold on the truth starts to slip. As the city descends into chaos, Anaiya is left with a fatal choice: stay loyal to her mission, or risk it all for her new identity and the resistance that has shown her a different truth.
Utopia comes at a cost. Not everyone is willing to pay the pay the price.
Resistance is the award-winning first book in the dark and subversive dystopian trilogy, Divided Elements.
Perfect for fans of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Pierce Brown’s Red Rising, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, this stunning debut explores themes of loyalty, identity, betrayal, and resistance against the carnival atmosphere of a dystopian Paris.
If you’re ready to graduate from YA dystopian classics like Divergent and The Gender Game, or are looking for a contemporary tale in the classic style of Zamaytin’s We or Orwell’s 1984, you’ll love Kopievsky’s Resistance.
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Good for readers who want sci-fi thrillers built around psychic powers, body theft, and a fight for survival.
Psychomech
Horror · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called “One of the best writers in the field” by New York Times bestselling author John Farris, A psychopath attempts to take over the body of a wounded soldier in this sci-fi thriller from a British Fantasy Award winning author, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want sci-fi thrillers built around psychic powers, body theft, and a fight for survival.
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A psychopath attempts to take over the body of a wounded soldier in this sci-fi thriller from a British Fantasy Award winning author.
Richard Garrison, a Corporal in the British Military Police, loses his sight while trying to save the wife and child of millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder from a terrorist bomb. While Garrison is recovering from his injuries, Schroeder makes him an offer the young man cannot refuse—refuge at Schroeder's luxurious mountain retreat and rehabilitation from the best doctors who can treat Garrison's blindness and if not cure him at least teach him a new way of life.
But Thomas Schroeder has a secret. He is dying and determined not to lose his life. The doctors tell him his body cannot be saved. But about his mind? Garrison's healthy young body would make an excellent replacement for Schroeder's failing corpus, if the machines to perform the operation can be perfected in time.
Garrison has no secrets of his own. Since the bombing that caused a loss of his sight, Garrison has become aware of new abilities slowly developing in his mind: mental powers he is beginning to master; strengths Schroeder cannot expect.
Richard Garrison and Thomas Schroeder, two strong-willed men locked in battle for the greatest prize—life itself.
"One of the best writers in the field." ―New York Times–bestselling author John Farris
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A pulse-pounding post-apocalyptic thriller for fans of survival, grit, and second chances.
Flare Storm
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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One solar flare ends the world. What follows will test every instinct. When a catastrophic burst of radiation wipes out power and plunges humanity into chaos, Alice must fight to survive the dark. 4.2 stars on Amazon and 4.1 on Goodreads. A pulse-pounding post-apocalyptic thriller for fans of survival, grit, and second chances.
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Burned by the sun, tested by the dark.
Alice Wilson never fooled herself into thinking her life was under control — she’d simply become an expert in pretending it was. Ever since losing her parents in a car crash she narrowly survived, Alice has walked a tightrope of grief and self-reliance, with no one to catch her if she fell.
But during a remote camping trip, far from the safety nets of modern life, everything changes. An unprecedented solar flare unleashes chaos, wiping out power grids, severing communications, and toppling modern infrastructure.
Stranded in a world gone dark, Alice is thrust into a fight for survival she never anticipated.
Now, racing against time to find a safe haven, Alice must make unthinkable choices to protect herself and those she cares about. Can she rise above the chaos, or will the storm of a shattered world consume her?
Flare Storm is a new novel from Amazon’s bestselling author of Ravaged Land. It’s a gritty, page-turning survival story of what happens after a solar flare changes everything and the world goes dark. As the world crumbles, one woman must fight to survive. If you like EMP and CME survival stories, you will love this book. Grab your copy and start reading today!
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Two days until impact.
Rule of Extinction
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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Two days until impact. Thousands of mysterious pods crash across Earth—offering the only escape from extinction. In Rule of Extinction, Geoff Jones launches The Preservation of Species trilogy, a pulse-pounding sci-fi adventure brimming with danger, mystery, and survival. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this post-apocalyptic epic asks: what if escaping Earth was the real nightmare?
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The world ends in two days. A comet races toward Earth, promising extinction for every living thing. Amid the chaos, thousands of strange pods crash across North America, alien, silent, and waiting. When touched, they open, revealing the only escape humanity might have left.
David Williams doesn’t care who sent them or why. He only knows he has one chance to save his wife and children before everything burns. But survival comes with a price. Inside the pods lies another world, one far more dangerous than the one they fled. As David fights to protect his family, he’ll uncover a terrifying truth about humanity’s place in the universe.
4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon. A thrilling start to The Preservation of Species trilogy.
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In The Warehouse, Rob Hart delivers a sharp, unsettling thriller where Big Brother meets Big Business.
The Warehouse
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
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In The Warehouse, Rob Hart delivers a sharp, unsettling thriller where Big Brother meets Big Business. A disillusioned worker and a corporate spy uncover the truth behind a tech giant that owns everything—even its people. A 4.2 out of 5 stars bestseller and NPR favorite, this dystopian hit proves the future of work is terrifyingly close.
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Cloud is more than a company, it’s a way of life. Inside its sleek, all-inclusive walls, employees live, work, and consume under one corporate promise: safety, order, and purpose. For Paxton, it’s supposed to be a fresh start after the outside world crumbled. For Zinnia, it’s a mission. She’s a spy sent to uncover the secrets buried deep in Cloud’s spotless façade.
As the company’s surveillance tightens and loyalties blur, their paths collide in a dangerous game of trust and betrayal. The higher they climb, the more sinister the truth becomes.
From Rob Hart, bestselling author of Assassins Anonymous, The Warehouse is a chilling dystopian thriller about the cost of convenience and the price of living in a world owned by corporations.
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Zombies, politics, and viral media collide in Feed, the award-winning thriller by Mira Grant.
Feed
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Zombies, politics, and viral media collide in Feed, the award-winning thriller by Mira Grant. Twenty years after humanity’s cure turned fatal, journalists Georgia and Shaun Mason chase a story that could cost them everything. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award and rated 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this is smart, fearless, post-apocalyptic fiction.
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The year was 2014. Humanity cured cancer and conquered the common cold. In the process, we created something worse. The virus didn’t die, it adapted, turning the dead into predators and the living into prey. Twenty years later, the world has learned to survive the Rising. News is power, and truth is deadly.
Georgia and Shaun Mason are fearless journalists chasing their next big story, uncovering corruption in a rebuilt America where fear rules every headline. But when they stumble on evidence of a massive government cover-up, the story becomes bigger, and bloodier, than they imagined.
In a world where information spreads faster than infection, one wrong post could end it all. And some truths are worth dying for.
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