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Post Apocalyptic
After the end. What survives, what rebuilds, and what humanity becomes when civilization is stripped away.
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy · Literary Fiction
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
post apocalyptic · coming of age · survival · found family
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Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · Literary Fiction
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a…
post apocalyptic · found family · multiple timelines · survival
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Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · Sci-Fi
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home.
space opera · survival · post apocalyptic · first contact
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The Stand
Stephen King · Horror
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99…
post apocalyptic · grimdark · dystopian society · survival · high stakes survival
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Children of Strife
Adrian Tchaikovsky · Sci-Fi
From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed…
space opera · post apocalyptic · quest · found family
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
Waubgeshig Rice · Literary Fiction
"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice.
dystopian society · coming of age · survival · post apocalyptic
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Swan Song
Robert McCammon · Horror
In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final…
post apocalyptic · chosen one · high stakes survival · grimdark
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We Call Them Witches
India-Rose Bower · Horror
For fans of The Watchers and T. Kingfisher comes a queer, post-apocalyptic horror following one woman's journey across a merciless wasteland to save…
dark romance · forbidden romance · post apocalyptic · dystopian society · found family · survival
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The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami · Sci-Fi
"From Laila Lalami-the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)-comes a riveting and utterly…
dystopian society · psychological thriller · survival · post apocalyptic
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The Maze Runner
James Dashner · Sci-Fi
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name.
chosen one · survival · dystopian society · post apocalyptic · amnesia · high stakes survival
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Last Light
Claire Kent · Literary Fiction
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…
post apocalyptic · psychological thriller · survival · trauma recovery
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Cloud Atlas
David Stephen Mitchell · Literary Fiction
A stunning, innovative Matyroshka doll of six nested narratives, which start in the 19th century and vault us into a dystopian future.
multiple timelines · magical realism · post apocalyptic · quest
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All the Fiends of Hell
Adam Nevill · Horror
The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe.
cosmic horror · high stakes survival · post apocalyptic · grimdark
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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
Glenn Dixon · Sci-Fi
In a near future, where even the smallest of appliances are sentient, a young Roomba vacuum sets out to save the humans of her house from a rising…
dystopian society · survival · post apocalyptic
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Overgrowth
Mira Grant · Sci-Fi
Day of the Triffids meets Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo.
dystopian society · post apocalyptic · unreliable narrator
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Wool
Hugh Howey · Sci-Fi
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep.
dystopian society · survival · closed circle · post apocalyptic
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The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin · Fantasy
Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that…
grimdark · post apocalyptic · quest · survival
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A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ
Walter M. Miller Jr. · Sci-Fi
dystopian society · post apocalyptic · political intrigue
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Timelike Infinity
Stephen Baxter · Sci-Fi
Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting...
space opera · survival · post apocalyptic · high stakes survival · quest
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The Chrysalids
John Wyndham · Sci-Fi
This book is about a post apocalyptic world returned back to the times of the horse and carriage seen through the eyes of a young boy.
post apocalyptic · dystopian society · coming of age · survival
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson · Sci-Fi
"What would happen if the world were ending?
post apocalyptic · survival · high stakes survival · space opera
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The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham · Sci-Fi
John Wyndham's 1951 classic post-apocalypse novel introduced the world to triffids, walking man-eating plants, preying on humanity in a world struck…
post apocalyptic · survival · high stakes survival · dystopian society
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Juice
Tim Winton · Sci-Fi
One of The Guardian's best sci-fi books of 2024 An edge-of-your-seat post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Road, from…
post apocalyptic · high stakes survival · dystopian society · psychological thriller
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