Best Apocalyptic Books

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey.

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most…

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW!"Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage (2010) and Station Eleven (2014)." BooklistWHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBERSet in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells…

Afterland delivers a propulsive, character-centered chase across a hostile, male-absent world where a mother's choices drive every scene. The book's strength is relentless momentum: short, tense episodes of disguise, pursuit, and ethical compromise keep pages turning. Its main limitation is tonal bluntness—social critiques land with force rather than nuance, and occasional plot conveniences stretch credibility. Readers wanting slow philosophical unpacking or delicate ambiguity may find the emphasis on survival drama and emotional intensity frustrating rather than satisfying.

Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesnt trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald.

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation.

One of those books that haunts you for the rest of your life' Sunday TimesWhen a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight.

alternate cover for ISBN 0708813623The chances that Lucifer's Hammer would hit the earth headon were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a hundred. And then ... even less.

S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling postapocalyptic saga set in a world where all Technology, has been rendered useless.The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a…

A collapsed economy and an increasingly savage society were causing thousands to abandon America. Captain Jonah Scott was a pilot, hired to fly some lucky refugees to London. But once in the air, nuclear war broke out, and Scott became responsible for the entire human race!

When Neil survives a deadly plague and plunges into solitude, he must question everything in this gripping adventure from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.Neil_x0092_s world is shattered when he and his family are involved in a horrible car accident that…

New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real ... a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America…

The ChungLi virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvation in its wake. The rest of the world looks on with concern, though safe in the expectation that a countervirus will be developed any day. Then ChungLi mutates and spreads.

In the late fall of 2013, a lethal pandemic virus emerges from the Islamic Republic of Indonesia (IRI) and rages unchecked across every continent.

Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a postapocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again.

In a nearfuture New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits leaving behind only those those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out.

Propulsive and grounded, CyberStorm follows an ordinary New Yorker thrown into cascading technological and infrastructure failures. Value comes from vivid outage set pieces, communication blackouts, and hands-on survival logistics that keep scenes tactile and urgent. Frustrations include extended technical explanations and repeating supply/camp scenes that slow momentum, plus occasional plausibility-stretching plot choices. If you want a thoughtful systems analysis you'll be disappointed; if you want an action-aligned domestic thriller that reads fast, it mostly delivers.

Eternity Road is set 1000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity.

"The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this bighearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse, where a foulmouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author).S.T., a…

On a January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a onemegaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands.

Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job _x0097_ transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe _x0097_ and though he doesn't enjoy the…

Librarian note: This is a later printing of ISBN 0307275434 with a slightly different cover than the one used on the first printing. As Goodreads does not allow for more that one record per ISBN a record for the first printing was added without the ISBN.Told with P. D.

_x0093_A triumphant story for anyone with a shred of faith left in the human spirit._x0094_ _x0097_David McGlynn, author of One Day You_x0092_ll Thank Me What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her…

An extraordinary novel of men at war_x0094_ (The Washington Post) and the bestselling book that inspired the TNT miniseries The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into allout nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S.

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassicera jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London.

An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service.

My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island.

For those who want a hard copy of this wonderful postapocalyptic saga, Calizona is now available in softcover. The perfect book for your own bomb shelter.

Going Home drops you into a sudden, radio-triggered catastrophe and follows Morgan Carter on a 250-mile odyssey. The book's strength is relentless forward motion: short, urgent scenes and practical survival choices keep the pace tight and cinematic. The limitation is limited attention to interior life and broad social detail; worldbuilding stays close to immediate hazards rather than long-term systems. If you want moral puzzles and clear incidents to discuss, it supplies them; if you wanted philosophical depth or sprawling context, it can feel thin.

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edgeofyourseat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic nearfuture world_x0097_a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh…

This first book of the Holding Their Own series, A Story of Survival, is set in the year 2015, when the world is burdened by the second Great Depression. The United States, already weakened by internal strife, becomes the target of an international terror plot.

The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the halfdestroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burnedout deserts and the remains of splintered forests.

Set in a postapocalyptic England, RIDDLEY WALKER tells the tale of one twelve year old boy and his journey through the ruins of civilisation. After the death of his father in an accident, Riddley must become a man.

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 Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair.

There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.If you ain_x0092_t scared, you ain_x0092_t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He_x0092_s surrounded by strangers_x0097_boys whose memories are also gone.

An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy_x0096_abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions.

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability.