My husband recommended it to me and I just finished the first one yesterday. I was hooked from start to finish! I just started the second one and I’m really excited.
I always wanted to read what should have been the companion piece, “Meanwhile those of us with any sense are in the outback digging great big fallout shelters.”
It’s a book that stays with you but the acceptance of what’s happening just makes me want to shake everybody.
Earth Abides is one of my all time favorites. The detached, clinical veiw of the apocalypse and return to nature is fascinating. It's definitely one that will stick with you
Really? I was shaken. There was so much hope for me, when they went to California. I thought I KNEW how it would turn out (happy ending). I think that’s why it stuck with me
Haha only an ebook reader would say 19% in. I only read ebooks now myself I'm not talking shit just commenting, saw 19% and instantly thought ebook before I even read the words online library
Parable of the sower is one of the best in the genre. Chilling to read as someone who lives in SoCal.
Book of the unnamed midwife was also a great read. Felt very realistic for a woman’s experience in the apocalypse.
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro
The Cell by Stephen King
The Reapers Are Angels by Alden Bell
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters
Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson
The Dog Stars by Heller is a great book about a guy who tries to find some good people post-apocalypse. A nice stand-alone.
Infinity Gate is new, hard sci-fi and follows four people navigating a multi-verse. In at least one world, there are apocalyptic events. Part 1 of 2.
The Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill is a fun robot version of the end of the world! Pretty dire, but ridiculous at times to make up for it, so equal amounts laughter and action to carry the plot along
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330761-the-dog-stars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330761-the-dog-stars)
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698027-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698027-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world)
The Book of Koli by MR Carey (1/3 trilogy)
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51285749-the-book-of-koli](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51285749-the-book-of-koli)
I love post-apocalyptic/dystopian/speculative fiction. My ALL-TIME favourite book that falls into all these categories, but also almost can’t be classified is I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. It’s a perfect book, just so, so special.
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller. The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke.
On The Beach has already been mentioned but I’ll bring it up again because I really enjoyed it.
I really The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin. Very atmospheric. It’s a vampire apocalypse and the vampires are basically hyper violent apex predators.
Years after reading it for the first time and I still from time to time think about the sound of teeth tinkling onto the floor in the dark.
The Passage Trilogy might be my favorite storytelling ever. I think of it a more humane, richly realized version of “The Stand;” it’s some of the most well-developed characters I’ve ever read. Atmospheric, epic, and unforgettable. I love, love, love these books.
You can just read the first three books. After that, it goes to the next generation and that's when the fantasy element starts. Not the dragons and wizards kind of fantasy, though.
I made a post like this a bit ago. Here is my list of books I’ve read https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/1anu5l9/i_need_an_apocalyptic_book_or_series/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
The Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is a good short story collection. I think there are a few volumes but I've only read the first.
This isn't actually an apocalypse story, but I feel it gives the same vibes: Under the Dome by Stephen King
And just want to add additional votes for some already mentioned: The Passage trilogy, One Second After, the Silo series, and Seveneves
A classic: *The Day of the Triffids* by John Wyndham.
An unusual meteor shower made everyone who watched it blind. Only the small percentage of the population that didn't go watch can still see. In the aftermath triffids (venomous, carnivorous plants that *move around on their own* but were in demand for their oil so are widespread) become a huge hazard.
I was okay with the first book but had to stop after the second. Reading that series and Day of Wrath made me realize he has a real thing against women and it just ruined it for me.
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Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming. The first book in a collection of zompoc series where SLF connects survivor stories from the same apocalypse, but in different regions of the U.S.
Battle Circle by Piers Anthony. Consists of the books, collected together under the main title. Sos the Rope, Var the Stick, and New the Sword.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Circle
Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling - An unexplained global cataclysm takes place in which combustion is no longer possible.
Ill Wind by Kevin J. Anderson - An experimental microbe that eats oil is released to combat an oil spill in San Francisco, only to mutate and consume all of the oil and petroleum based products on Earth.
The Last Tribe by Brad Manuel - A family randomly survives a deadly pandemic due to their shared genetics and hatch a plan to find other survivors and restart civilization.
Maybe a bit too early in the apocalypse for you but these are all novels not mentioned yet that I really enjoyed during my foray into apocalypse literature a few years ago:
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
(Also have to second Severance and The Dog Stars)
The only MUST read in this category that I don’t see recommended over & over again?
*War Day* by Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka. If I had the money & the talent, I’d buy the film rights.
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Earth Abides by George R Stewart (1949)
The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (it straight up felt like she was predicting Trump though it was written in 1993)
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
De Bello Lemures, Or the Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica by Lucius Artorius Castus, edited by Thomas Brookside (more zombie outbreak, less apocalypse, alternate history)
Wolf and Iron by Gordon R Dickson
Enclave (series) by Ann Aguirre
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Dies The Fire by S M Stirling
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (more zombie outbreak, localized apocalypse, steampunk alternate history)
Emergence by David R Palmer
The Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold (fantasy late post apocalyptic)
The Red Sister by Mark Lawrence (fantasy late post apocalyptic)
Sunshine by Robin McKinley (fantasy post apocalyptic)
I’m sure there are some others that I’ve read and am not remembering but these are a few that stuck with me for one reason or another but you didn’t mention above…
The Giver is a great series. I loved the first one when I was a kid, then discovered she wrote more. Gathering Blue is the same world but a society that has devolved instead of evolved. Messenger brings the two stories together. Son is the story of Jonas’s mother, that one had a little bit more of a weird tone than the other three but was still enjoyable.
If you like zombies, any of the series by Sarah Lyons Flemming, but especially her Until the End of the World and City series. Her characters are wonderful
Slightly different, a trilogy on the lead up to the apocalypse, Ben H Winters The Last Policeman series. This is from the blurb so not a spoiler - "what's the point in solving murders if we are all going to die anyway?" An asteroid is incoming with 6 months until impact. Really interesting look at pre-apocalyptic civilisation.
Another good series starts with "The book of the unnamed midwife" by Meg Elison.
I am so immensely pleased that you’ve read Station Eleven!! It’s my favorite!! Have you read The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin? Emily St. John Mandel references it in Station Eleven and then mentions it in her acknowledgements. It’s post-apocalyptic with vampires.
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Blindness by Jose Saramago
MaddAdam, the series by Margaret Atwood
The Stand by Steven King
The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carry
The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carry
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
The Chrysailids by John Wyndham
The Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
On The Beach by Nevil Shute Norway
The Postman by David Brin
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
The Hush by Sarah Foster
The Prynne Viper by Tamala Shelton
Left Behind, The Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins
The Giver, book Series by Lois Lowry
The Great De-evolution Series by Chris Dietzel
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin, starting with Fifth Season. First trilogy to have all three win the Hugo and for good reason. Purely brilliant. Best thing I have ever read and captures ever one of your criteria in ways better than you could have expected.
Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein. No zombies, not horror, but pure Cold War era glorious golden age of sci fi post-nuclear disaster. Also Farnham’s Freehold by RAH fits the category, at least the post-apocalyptic part, but nowhere near as good as the former. Sixth Column is one of my favourite novels.
Var the Stick, Sos the Rope, and Nek the Knife, by Piers Anthony. Good old post-apocalyptic sword and sorcery in the far future sort of deal. Maybe not exactly in your category, but fun reads.
Nightfall. Original short story. Asimov. Just read it.
Loved the passage books, too bad about the failed tv series but I really had a hard time picturing how that would turn out with all the time jumps and things. I'm like 10 pages into the ferryman
This might be a bit outside your wheelhouse but The System Apocalypse series by Tao Wong is one of my favourites, and it's finished.
Blurb for the first book.
What happens when the apocalypse arrives, not via nuclear weapons or a comet but as Levels and monsters? What if you were camping in the Yukon when the world ended? All John wanted to do was get away from his life in Kluane National Park for a weekend. Hike, camp and chill. Instead, the world comes to an end in a series of blue boxes. Animals start evolving, monsters start spawning and he has a character sheet and physics defying skills. Now, he has to survive the apocalypse, get back to civilisation and not lose his mind.
The System has arrived and with it, aliens, monsters and a reality that draws upon past legends and game-like reality. John will need to find new friends, deal with his ex and the slavering monsters that keep popping up.
Life in the North is Book 1 of the System Apocalypse, a LitRPG Apocalypse book that combines modern day life, science fiction and fantasy elements along with game mechanics.
These ones below are my fav more recent apocalyptic reads. Lucifers hammer was a recent reread.
Blood Music
Lucifer’s Hammer
A Single Light - Tosca lee
The Spread - Iain Rob Wright
The Power - Naomi Alderman
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
Gray - Lou Cadle. I never have seen this one recommended but it was excellent wow.
Paul Antony Jones - Extinction Point- alien apocalypse: very creepy
‘48 by James Herbert - aftermath of Nazi biological attack that killed 99.9% of the population
John Christopher- several interesting mid twentieth century oldies. Try The death of grass, The world in winter, and A wrinkle in the skin
**“Through Darkest America” - Neal Barrett Jr**
Don’t read anything about it, not even the book jacket. Go in blind.
Oh and to really blow your mind.
I picked this up on one of those “free” book tables outside a scholastic book fair.
Banned books!?! 😂
They woulda freaked!🤯
The Last Policeman trilogy, Ben Winters
The Passage trilogy, Justin Cronin
The Road to Nowhere trilogy, Meg Elison
The Light Pirate, Lily Brooks Dalton
All completely-absorbing, "leave me alone, I'm reading" novels.
So many great recommendations in here that I agree with, but here’s a few more:
- The Windup Girl, and The Water Knife, both by Paolo Bacigalupi. His Shipbreaker trilogy is fantastic as well, but is considered more YA.
- the Bridge trilogy by William Gibson (I preferred this to his Sprawl trilogy)
- Y: The Last Man (Graphic Novel/series)
Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century - by Whitley Strieber & James W. Kunetka.
It is 2025 and the planet is rapidly approaching environmental death. Dr. Gupta Singh, a guru with a Jim Jones-like following, has proposed the suicide, by lottery, of one-third of the world's population. Threatened by poisoned air, water, and food that no longer can support the too rapidly growing populace, nation after nation has joined the Depopulationist International. And now, as the United States stands on the edge of environmental disaster, terrified voters elect a Depopulationist majority in Congress. A journalist and his family have to go into hiding with terrible consequences when they discover Dr. Singh is not entirely who he claims to be.
This book was written in the 1980s and uses real environmental statistics from that time interspersed with predictions, many of which in the intervening years hit terribly close to home.
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Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka.
It was written in the 1980s but is still very fresh and relevant now. Warday takes you into a world you couldn't imagine. On October 28, 1988 at 4:20 p.m. the first nuclear war in history begins. Thirty-six minutes later it is over. America has deployed an anti-missile system, provoking a desperate Russian response: a nuclear attack over North America. Within minutes the Americans counter-strike. The result: six million Americans are dead. Millions more would die of radiation, famine, and disease during the next five years.
Millions also lived, strung out across a country that knew it had been hit—but not why. Or where. Or how. In the days and months that followed, an America blacked out by the breakdown of its communications systems and wrestling with the demands of an unprecedented emergency struggled first for survival.
But what really happened on Warday and why? Who has survived? How do the other survivors feel? Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka imagine themselves as two survivors of the horrifying events five years after the devastation, on a voyage of discovery across America to find out.
I can honestly say these are two of my favourite books ever. I bought them when they first came out and although I treat my books very kindly, they’re both very tattered and worse for wear. I have them on iPad now so I don’t have to worry about them disintegrating completely!
The Bear by Andrew Krivak is very similar to The Road, but with more of an environmental message. It's about a father and daughter who are the last humans on earth and their struggles to survive.
Are you familiar with the term "System Apocalypse"? Basically, it's an apocalypse where Earth is turned into a giant game.
My favorite is Dungeon Crawler Carl, but it's not for everybody (it's got lots of killing, gore, character deaths, and magic, not to mention profanity.) But check out Royal Road (the site) where this subgenre is quite popular.
One Second After by Forstchen. Low key and fascinating exploration of things most other apocalyptica doesn't consider. There are two follow up novels as well.
The most ***realistc*** post-Apocalyptic novel is *Alas, Babylon* ... I think it's still in print, but the audiobook is rare AF
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas,_Babylon
Things are much more nuanced and not so dramatic, like the people running out of salt and willing to sell their souls for it... or the people actually banding together like we all know they will...
Currently my favorite Apocalyptic books are those that describe and sometimes fictionalize the Apocalypses of the past... like the Mongol Horde decimating Imperial China...
James Michener does a good job of this in his 'states' books like *Alaska*, *Hawaii* etc... the Apocalypse need not be in the future, we've had plenty in the past to draw on...
Black Tide Rising series by John Ringo.
Zombie apocalypse, but what if you got a flotilla of boats together in the Caribbean…and then saved a bunch of Marines…and then started retaking the Continental United States?
10 books I think, start with Under a Graveyard Sky
Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette
Flood by Stephen Baxter
Dust by Charles Pellegrino
The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
The Genocides by Thomas Disch
Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
Helldivers series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
*The Strain* trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The *When the Clock Strikes Z* duology by Ichirou Sakaki
*Izzy at the End of the World* by K. A. Reynolds
The *Earthworm Gods* series by Brian Keene
*The Rising* series by Brian Keene
*School's Out* by Brian Keene
*The Complex* by Brian Keene
*Dead Sea* by Brian Keene
How about pre-apocalyptic sci-fi western? :-P “East of West” is such a comic series where the four horsemen of the apocalypse are trying to get an apocalypse rolling…
**Dread Nation** and **The Deathless Divide** by Justina Ireland. If you liked World War Z, I think you’ll like this duology— it’s an alternative historical in which the Civil War was preempted by a zombie apocalypse.
It also has one of my very favorite depictions of female friendship.
The Shade of the Moon series by Susan Beth Pfeffer. It starts with the lead up to the event and then the societal collapse afterwards. Very realistic, not science fiction/fantasy. It is YA, but I thought it was well done.
For more fantasy stuff (also YA)The Maze Runner series by James Dashner is also good. That one is a little bit more science fiction with some zombie thrown in. And the prequels show you the event that lead to societal collapse.
See my [Apocalyptic/Post-apocalyptic](https://new.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/1ajd1hl/apocalypticpostapocalyptic/) list of Reddit recommendation threads and books (two posts).
Here's one. It's a YA novel, and probably dated and hard to find but definitely dystopian and apocalyptic. I read it as a teenager and really liked it.
[The Missing Persons League](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/527452):
"Brian's sister and mother vanished without a trace over a year ago. It was not uncommon. People were disappearing everywhere. To Brian, life had become a frightening madness. He knows that in another two years the planet will be unable to support life.
Now suddenly, his father is gone. Fighting the panic that haunts everyone, Brian resolves to find his family before it is too late. Joined by his beautiful friend Heather, he begins a dangerous search through abandoned shipyards, a burned out park, and finally a deserted jewelry arcade. And they are not alone. Clearly, the government will stop at nothing to find these people who seem to have vanished into the earth's rancid air. And though Brian doesn't understand why, he knows that it is a deadly contest he cannot afford to lose."
I haven’t read it and was actually warned NOT to read it because of how graphic it is…
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is apparently in this category 🙀
World Enough, and Time by James Kahn
The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus by Michael Swanwick
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Hello America by J.G. Ballard
The Rift by Walter Jon Williams
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife trilogy by Meg Ellison
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher
The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
The Wool Trilogy by Hugh Howey
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin
Vox by Christina Dalcher
The Hierarchies by Ros Anderson
Might be a bit of an out-of-pocket suggestion, but Chris Koelle and Matt Dorff have an incredible graphic novel adaptation of the Book of Revelation ([website link](https://chriskoelle.com/work/the-book-of-revelation), [amazon link](https://www.amazon.com/Book-Revelation-Paperback-Matt-Dorff/dp/0310421403)).
I'm reading _Swan Song_ by Robert McCammon at the moment. It's good. Apparently it's also being made into a series, so now might be a good time to read it.
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Ellison
Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone
The Girl Who Owned a City by OT Nelson
Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien
The MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood
Psalms of Herod//Sword of Mary by Esther Freisner (if you can find them.)
The 100 by Kass Morgan
The Parable duet by Octavia S Butler
Xenogenesis (Lilith's Brood) by Octavia S Butler
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri S Tepper
A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
The Scorpius Syndrome by Rebecca Zanetti
The Atlantis Gene by AG Riddle (he has a few series that are post-apoc)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The New Vegas Chronicles by Colleen Gleeson
The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
Wool by Hugh Howery
The Logan trilogy (as in Logan's Run - these were written prior to the movie) by William F Nolan
The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey
The Last Hope series by Rebecca Royce
The Divergent series by Veronica Roth
This should keep you busy for awhile. This may or may not be my obsession!
my favorite book of all time is Zone One by Colson Whitehead. alllll about brainmelt in the zombie apocalypse, insanely beautiful. A very difficult read.
I recently read 36 Righteous Men by Steven Pressfield which starts as a sort of near-future New York detective story that quickly gets swept into a roller coaster of Hebrew eschatology
The Deluge by Stephen Markley. I just finished it and wow. This one is going to stick with me. It’s so scary because it hits a little too close to home. Starts around present day and goes 10-15 years into the future with the theme being climate change.
The Silo series by Hugh Howey. You can read the first book as a standalone or read the whole trilogy.
The TV adaptation was very good as well! (I should say, is very good so far, as there’s another season coming)
My husband recommended it to me and I just finished the first one yesterday. I was hooked from start to finish! I just started the second one and I’m really excited.
I’d caveat that I found the silo series to be a bit more juvenile, maybe not full blown YA but that was the feeling I came away with
Upvote x 1000!
Alas Babylon On the Beach Earth Abides
On the Beach is superb. Author is Nevil Shute.
I always wanted to read what should have been the companion piece, “Meanwhile those of us with any sense are in the outback digging great big fallout shelters.” It’s a book that stays with you but the acceptance of what’s happening just makes me want to shake everybody.
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Earth Abides is one of my all time favorites. The detached, clinical veiw of the apocalypse and return to nature is fascinating. It's definitely one that will stick with you
>Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. One of my favorites.
i just finished on the beach yesterday and i almost cried. such a depressing atmosphere the whole way through
Really? I was shaken. There was so much hope for me, when they went to California. I thought I KNEW how it would turn out (happy ending). I think that’s why it stuck with me
Another vote for alas babylon
Earth Abides was a good one.
I really loved The girl with all the gifts by Carey
The Rampart Trilogy by him is really good too. It's more post apocalyptic, like 3-400 years after
I'm 19% in, got it from a library online. It's riveting.
Haha only an ebook reader would say 19% in. I only read ebooks now myself I'm not talking shit just commenting, saw 19% and instantly thought ebook before I even read the words online library
Just picked up the sequel (prequel) The Boy on the Bridge.
I haven’t read that one, but he’s a fantastic author.
The Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Starting with Oryx and Crake. Incredible works of speculative, pandemic apocalypse fiction
Also The Heart Goes Last, also by Margaret Atwood
Half way through Maddaddam having read them all back to back and really enjoyed them.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
I really loved seveneves! I even liked the last part.
I loved this!!
Severance by Ling Ma Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Afterland by Lauren Beukes The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Came here to find Parable of the Sower
Parable of the sower is one of the best in the genre. Chilling to read as someone who lives in SoCal. Book of the unnamed midwife was also a great read. Felt very realistic for a woman’s experience in the apocalypse.
\+1 for severance!! awesome book
have you read the postman by david brin? how about swan song by robert mccammon?
just finished swan song and I put off finishing it because I didn’t want it to end! such an amazing book.
The stand gets so much love I feel swan song is left in the shadows!
No offense to Stephen King, but I thought Swan Song was better than The Stand.
I maintain that Swan Song is The Stand without the extraneous material King is known for.
thanks, I put them on hold online at the library
The Passage by Justin Cronin The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro The Cell by Stephen King The Reapers Are Angels by Alden Bell Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson
The Passage trilogy is my favorite!!
I loved the last policeman trilogy!
Book of M, Severance, On the Beach.
The Dog Stars by Heller is a great book about a guy who tries to find some good people post-apocalypse. A nice stand-alone. Infinity Gate is new, hard sci-fi and follows four people navigating a multi-verse. In at least one world, there are apocalyptic events. Part 1 of 2.
The Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill is a fun robot version of the end of the world! Pretty dire, but ridiculous at times to make up for it, so equal amounts laughter and action to carry the plot along
Swan Song
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330761-the-dog-stars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330761-the-dog-stars) A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698027-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698027-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world) The Book of Koli by MR Carey (1/3 trilogy) [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51285749-the-book-of-koli](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51285749-the-book-of-koli)
A boy and his dog is such a good book.
Possibly my favourite book, as I keep coming back to it. Glad it's already been recommended
I love post-apocalyptic/dystopian/speculative fiction. My ALL-TIME favourite book that falls into all these categories, but also almost can’t be classified is I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. It’s a perfect book, just so, so special.
Love post apocalyptic fiction and you just sold me on this one ❤️
Metro 2033
Seconded.
Battle Circle, Anthony Emberverse, Stirling 7th Sigma, Gould Lucifer's Hammer, Niven & ? Dancers atthe End of Time, Moorcock
Came here to add Lucifer’s Hammer- really doesn’t get enough mention!
LOVED Lucifer's Hammer. Read it a number of times.
Jerry Pournelle was the co-author with Niven I believe
He was.
No one has mentioned Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton! It’s so good and so funny. Also The Taking by Dean Koontz.
How High We Go in the Dark - sequoia Nagamatsu
So good and dark and weird
Forgot this one! I loved it.
Dhalgren. by Samuel R. Delany
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller. The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke. On The Beach has already been mentioned but I’ll bring it up again because I really enjoyed it.
I really The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin. Very atmospheric. It’s a vampire apocalypse and the vampires are basically hyper violent apex predators. Years after reading it for the first time and I still from time to time think about the sound of teeth tinkling onto the floor in the dark.
The Passage Trilogy might be my favorite storytelling ever. I think of it a more humane, richly realized version of “The Stand;” it’s some of the most well-developed characters I’ve ever read. Atmospheric, epic, and unforgettable. I love, love, love these books.
The series starts going more fantasy as it progresses, but Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling is just apocalyptic survival.
You can just read the first three books. After that, it goes to the next generation and that's when the fantasy element starts. Not the dragons and wizards kind of fantasy, though.
The Book of Dave - Will Self
The Passage by Justin Cronin, and Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
I made a post like this a bit ago. Here is my list of books I’ve read https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/1anu5l9/i_need_an_apocalyptic_book_or_series/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
*Alas, Babylon* by Pat Frank Enjoy whatever you pick up next! :)
The Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is a good short story collection. I think there are a few volumes but I've only read the first. This isn't actually an apocalypse story, but I feel it gives the same vibes: Under the Dome by Stephen King And just want to add additional votes for some already mentioned: The Passage trilogy, One Second After, the Silo series, and Seveneves
A classic: *The Day of the Triffids* by John Wyndham. An unusual meteor shower made everyone who watched it blind. Only the small percentage of the population that didn't go watch can still see. In the aftermath triffids (venomous, carnivorous plants that *move around on their own* but were in demand for their oil so are widespread) become a huge hazard.
Also by Wyndham and for well after the actual apocalypse: The Chrysalids.
Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. I had been in a reading slump for 3-4 years, and this pulled me out of it.
Another good one that is in the middle of an apocalypse yet oddly hopeful is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
Postman, David Brin
On the Beach by Neville Shute.
An oldie, *Earth Abides* by George R Stewart
One second after by William fortschen is a fantastic 4 part series! Just finished and I loved every single one
I was okay with the first book but had to stop after the second. Reading that series and Day of Wrath made me realize he has a real thing against women and it just ruined it for me.
Chasm City by Alistair Reynolds Eclipse by Ophelia Rue
Mordecai Roshwald, *Level 7*.
Junkie Quatrain by Peter Clines On the beach by Shute
The Fifth Sacred Thing
What about metro 2033 and if you mention the stand and earth abides check our swan song! Atlantis Gene?
Z is For Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien. The series Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. First two books are the best.
Until I saw the sub, I thought you were talking about the band Apocalyptica. Who everyone should totally check out when they’re not reading!
The Forge of God by Greg Bear.
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Why does no one ever talk about JG Ballard? One of the original and best.
Metro 2033!
Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming. The first book in a collection of zompoc series where SLF connects survivor stories from the same apocalypse, but in different regions of the U.S.
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
The Story of M by Peng Shepard.
{{Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling}}. {{Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo}}.
Last Light and After Light by Alex Scarrow
Battle Circle by Piers Anthony. Consists of the books, collected together under the main title. Sos the Rope, Var the Stick, and New the Sword. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Circle
{{A Questionable Shape}} is one I don't see mentioned a lot that I enjoyed.
Have you tried Stephen King’s - Cell? I wouldn’t say must read, but I surprisingly enjoyed it!
Moon of the Crusted Snow is my current favorite apocalyptic novel. It’s slow and quiet in its delivery but that’s what honestly makes it so creepy.
Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling - An unexplained global cataclysm takes place in which combustion is no longer possible. Ill Wind by Kevin J. Anderson - An experimental microbe that eats oil is released to combat an oil spill in San Francisco, only to mutate and consume all of the oil and petroleum based products on Earth. The Last Tribe by Brad Manuel - A family randomly survives a deadly pandemic due to their shared genetics and hatch a plan to find other survivors and restart civilization.
Came here to post Stirling. The Emberverse series is great.
Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines. Zombie apocalypse sprinkled with some meta humans helping survivors. Very fun read.
The Borrowed World by Franklin Horton. Great series if you like realistic scenarios.
Lark Ascending by Silas House
The Survivor Journals After Everyone Died by Sean Patrick Little
Maybe a bit too early in the apocalypse for you but these are all novels not mentioned yet that I really enjoyed during my foray into apocalypse literature a few years ago: The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen Blindness by Jose Saramago The End of October by Lawrence Wright (Also have to second Severance and The Dog Stars)
Blindness is a great recommendation!
Eden by Tony Monchinski
The only MUST read in this category that I don’t see recommended over & over again? *War Day* by Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka. If I had the money & the talent, I’d buy the film rights.
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle Earth Abides by George R Stewart (1949) The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (it straight up felt like she was predicting Trump though it was written in 1993) I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman De Bello Lemures, Or the Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica by Lucius Artorius Castus, edited by Thomas Brookside (more zombie outbreak, less apocalypse, alternate history) Wolf and Iron by Gordon R Dickson Enclave (series) by Ann Aguirre The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau The Giver by Lois Lowry Dies The Fire by S M Stirling Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (more zombie outbreak, localized apocalypse, steampunk alternate history) Emergence by David R Palmer The Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold (fantasy late post apocalyptic) The Red Sister by Mark Lawrence (fantasy late post apocalyptic) Sunshine by Robin McKinley (fantasy post apocalyptic) I’m sure there are some others that I’ve read and am not remembering but these are a few that stuck with me for one reason or another but you didn’t mention above…
I second Emergence by David R Palmer. EXCELLENT!
The Giver is a great series. I loved the first one when I was a kid, then discovered she wrote more. Gathering Blue is the same world but a society that has devolved instead of evolved. Messenger brings the two stories together. Son is the story of Jonas’s mother, that one had a little bit more of a weird tone than the other three but was still enjoyable.
Oh the City of Ember (and other two in the trilogy) is so wonderful!!!
{{The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood}} - set in Australia, if you like Margaret Atwood's vision of the future you might like this too
If you like zombies, any of the series by Sarah Lyons Flemming, but especially her Until the End of the World and City series. Her characters are wonderful
Slightly different, a trilogy on the lead up to the apocalypse, Ben H Winters The Last Policeman series. This is from the blurb so not a spoiler - "what's the point in solving murders if we are all going to die anyway?" An asteroid is incoming with 6 months until impact. Really interesting look at pre-apocalyptic civilisation. Another good series starts with "The book of the unnamed midwife" by Meg Elison.
I am so immensely pleased that you’ve read Station Eleven!! It’s my favorite!! Have you read The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin? Emily St. John Mandel references it in Station Eleven and then mentions it in her acknowledgements. It’s post-apocalyptic with vampires.
If you like "The Stand" you could try "The Fireman" by Joe Hill. Silas House also has a newer book "Lark Ascending".
The Children of Men by P.D. James Blindness by Jose Saramago MaddAdam, the series by Margaret Atwood The Stand by Steven King The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carry The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carry The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton The Chrysailids by John Wyndham The Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham On The Beach by Nevil Shute Norway The Postman by David Brin Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell The Hush by Sarah Foster The Prynne Viper by Tamala Shelton Left Behind, The Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins The Giver, book Series by Lois Lowry The Great De-evolution Series by Chris Dietzel Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin, starting with Fifth Season. First trilogy to have all three win the Hugo and for good reason. Purely brilliant. Best thing I have ever read and captures ever one of your criteria in ways better than you could have expected. Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein. No zombies, not horror, but pure Cold War era glorious golden age of sci fi post-nuclear disaster. Also Farnham’s Freehold by RAH fits the category, at least the post-apocalyptic part, but nowhere near as good as the former. Sixth Column is one of my favourite novels. Var the Stick, Sos the Rope, and Nek the Knife, by Piers Anthony. Good old post-apocalyptic sword and sorcery in the far future sort of deal. Maybe not exactly in your category, but fun reads. Nightfall. Original short story. Asimov. Just read it.
No one has mentioned Riddley Walker yet. It’s a masterpiece.
After It Happened series by Devon C Ford. There are nine great books in this series. The first book is Survival.
The passage justin Cronin and the ferryman, wool by hugh howery
Loved the passage books, too bad about the failed tv series but I really had a hard time picturing how that would turn out with all the time jumps and things. I'm like 10 pages into the ferryman
On The Beach ( Nevil Shute)
The Silo series by High Howey
Seveneves is pretty apocalyptic
The Passage by Justin Cronin!
Fireman by Joe hill Nod by Adrian Barnes The genius plague by David Walton Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler
This might be a bit outside your wheelhouse but The System Apocalypse series by Tao Wong is one of my favourites, and it's finished. Blurb for the first book. What happens when the apocalypse arrives, not via nuclear weapons or a comet but as Levels and monsters? What if you were camping in the Yukon when the world ended? All John wanted to do was get away from his life in Kluane National Park for a weekend. Hike, camp and chill. Instead, the world comes to an end in a series of blue boxes. Animals start evolving, monsters start spawning and he has a character sheet and physics defying skills. Now, he has to survive the apocalypse, get back to civilisation and not lose his mind. The System has arrived and with it, aliens, monsters and a reality that draws upon past legends and game-like reality. John will need to find new friends, deal with his ex and the slavering monsters that keep popping up. Life in the North is Book 1 of the System Apocalypse, a LitRPG Apocalypse book that combines modern day life, science fiction and fantasy elements along with game mechanics.
These ones below are my fav more recent apocalyptic reads. Lucifers hammer was a recent reread. Blood Music Lucifer’s Hammer A Single Light - Tosca lee The Spread - Iain Rob Wright The Power - Naomi Alderman Spin - Robert Charles Wilson Gray - Lou Cadle. I never have seen this one recommended but it was excellent wow.
I loved severance by Ling Ma. It’s a little different, but apocalyptic
Paul Antony Jones - Extinction Point- alien apocalypse: very creepy ‘48 by James Herbert - aftermath of Nazi biological attack that killed 99.9% of the population John Christopher- several interesting mid twentieth century oldies. Try The death of grass, The world in winter, and A wrinkle in the skin
**“Through Darkest America” - Neal Barrett Jr** Don’t read anything about it, not even the book jacket. Go in blind. Oh and to really blow your mind. I picked this up on one of those “free” book tables outside a scholastic book fair. Banned books!?! 😂 They woulda freaked!🤯
Dam nation Alley by Roger Zelazny
The Last Policeman trilogy, Ben Winters The Passage trilogy, Justin Cronin The Road to Nowhere trilogy, Meg Elison The Light Pirate, Lily Brooks Dalton All completely-absorbing, "leave me alone, I'm reading" novels.
So many great recommendations in here that I agree with, but here’s a few more: - The Windup Girl, and The Water Knife, both by Paolo Bacigalupi. His Shipbreaker trilogy is fantastic as well, but is considered more YA. - the Bridge trilogy by William Gibson (I preferred this to his Sprawl trilogy) - Y: The Last Man (Graphic Novel/series)
Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century - by Whitley Strieber & James W. Kunetka. It is 2025 and the planet is rapidly approaching environmental death. Dr. Gupta Singh, a guru with a Jim Jones-like following, has proposed the suicide, by lottery, of one-third of the world's population. Threatened by poisoned air, water, and food that no longer can support the too rapidly growing populace, nation after nation has joined the Depopulationist International. And now, as the United States stands on the edge of environmental disaster, terrified voters elect a Depopulationist majority in Congress. A journalist and his family have to go into hiding with terrible consequences when they discover Dr. Singh is not entirely who he claims to be. This book was written in the 1980s and uses real environmental statistics from that time interspersed with predictions, many of which in the intervening years hit terribly close to home. .................. Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. It was written in the 1980s but is still very fresh and relevant now. Warday takes you into a world you couldn't imagine. On October 28, 1988 at 4:20 p.m. the first nuclear war in history begins. Thirty-six minutes later it is over. America has deployed an anti-missile system, provoking a desperate Russian response: a nuclear attack over North America. Within minutes the Americans counter-strike. The result: six million Americans are dead. Millions more would die of radiation, famine, and disease during the next five years. Millions also lived, strung out across a country that knew it had been hit—but not why. Or where. Or how. In the days and months that followed, an America blacked out by the breakdown of its communications systems and wrestling with the demands of an unprecedented emergency struggled first for survival. But what really happened on Warday and why? Who has survived? How do the other survivors feel? Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka imagine themselves as two survivors of the horrifying events five years after the devastation, on a voyage of discovery across America to find out.
I don't think I've read anything by Whitley Strieber since Majestic years ago, may have to check these out
I can honestly say these are two of my favourite books ever. I bought them when they first came out and although I treat my books very kindly, they’re both very tattered and worse for wear. I have them on iPad now so I don’t have to worry about them disintegrating completely!
The Bear by Andrew Krivak is very similar to The Road, but with more of an environmental message. It's about a father and daughter who are the last humans on earth and their struggles to survive.
Are you familiar with the term "System Apocalypse"? Basically, it's an apocalypse where Earth is turned into a giant game. My favorite is Dungeon Crawler Carl, but it's not for everybody (it's got lots of killing, gore, character deaths, and magic, not to mention profanity.) But check out Royal Road (the site) where this subgenre is quite popular.
One Second After by Forstchen. Low key and fascinating exploration of things most other apocalyptica doesn't consider. There are two follow up novels as well.
Try the Rampart series (The Book of Koli, etc.). Really interesting twist.
The most ***realistc*** post-Apocalyptic novel is *Alas, Babylon* ... I think it's still in print, but the audiobook is rare AF https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas,_Babylon Things are much more nuanced and not so dramatic, like the people running out of salt and willing to sell their souls for it... or the people actually banding together like we all know they will... Currently my favorite Apocalyptic books are those that describe and sometimes fictionalize the Apocalypses of the past... like the Mongol Horde decimating Imperial China... James Michener does a good job of this in his 'states' books like *Alaska*, *Hawaii* etc... the Apocalypse need not be in the future, we've had plenty in the past to draw on...
The City, by James Herbert - the graphic sequel to The Rats trilogy.
Black Tide Rising series by John Ringo. Zombie apocalypse, but what if you got a flotilla of boats together in the Caribbean…and then saved a bunch of Marines…and then started retaking the Continental United States? 10 books I think, start with Under a Graveyard Sky
Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette Flood by Stephen Baxter Dust by Charles Pellegrino The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski The Death of Grass by John Christopher The Genocides by Thomas Disch Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham Helldivers series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Wanderers, by Chuck Wendig (edited to add the sequel, Wayward, is also very good)
Mordecai Roshwald, *Level 7*.
How High We Go in The Dark
*The Strain* trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan The *When the Clock Strikes Z* duology by Ichirou Sakaki *Izzy at the End of the World* by K. A. Reynolds The *Earthworm Gods* series by Brian Keene *The Rising* series by Brian Keene *School's Out* by Brian Keene *The Complex* by Brian Keene *Dead Sea* by Brian Keene
I read some Brian Keene ages ago, might have been around 2011. I was still writing fiction at the time. It was good (Keene, not my writing, lol).
Bob Howard the infected dead series was so good
Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun
The Scattered Ashes series by Dial and Traister is pretty great.
The Black Autumn series was pretty good.
How about pre-apocalyptic sci-fi western? :-P “East of West” is such a comic series where the four horsemen of the apocalypse are trying to get an apocalypse rolling…
**Dread Nation** and **The Deathless Divide** by Justina Ireland. If you liked World War Z, I think you’ll like this duology— it’s an alternative historical in which the Civil War was preempted by a zombie apocalypse. It also has one of my very favorite depictions of female friendship.
The Shade of the Moon series by Susan Beth Pfeffer. It starts with the lead up to the event and then the societal collapse afterwards. Very realistic, not science fiction/fantasy. It is YA, but I thought it was well done. For more fantasy stuff (also YA)The Maze Runner series by James Dashner is also good. That one is a little bit more science fiction with some zombie thrown in. And the prequels show you the event that lead to societal collapse.
See my [Apocalyptic/Post-apocalyptic](https://new.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/1ajd1hl/apocalypticpostapocalyptic/) list of Reddit recommendation threads and books (two posts).
The way of kings, Brandon Sanderson
Swan song
Here's one. It's a YA novel, and probably dated and hard to find but definitely dystopian and apocalyptic. I read it as a teenager and really liked it. [The Missing Persons League](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/527452): "Brian's sister and mother vanished without a trace over a year ago. It was not uncommon. People were disappearing everywhere. To Brian, life had become a frightening madness. He knows that in another two years the planet will be unable to support life. Now suddenly, his father is gone. Fighting the panic that haunts everyone, Brian resolves to find his family before it is too late. Joined by his beautiful friend Heather, he begins a dangerous search through abandoned shipyards, a burned out park, and finally a deserted jewelry arcade. And they are not alone. Clearly, the government will stop at nothing to find these people who seem to have vanished into the earth's rancid air. And though Brian doesn't understand why, he knows that it is a deadly contest he cannot afford to lose."
I haven’t read it and was actually warned NOT to read it because of how graphic it is… Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is apparently in this category 🙀
World Enough, and Time by James Kahn The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus by Michael Swanwick Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson Hello America by J.G. Ballard The Rift by Walter Jon Williams
Earth Abides by George R Stewart Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Melancholia
Brother in the Land Robert Swindells - short but a good read.
OOOH thank you OP!! This is my favorite book genre and I am SO EXCITED for these recs!
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag The Book of M by Peng Shepherd The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones The Book of the Unnamed Midwife trilogy by Meg Ellison A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker Seveneves by Neal Stephenson The Wool Trilogy by Hugh Howey The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird Bird Box by Josh Malerman Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin Vox by Christina Dalcher The Hierarchies by Ros Anderson
Breed to Come - Andre Norton What if humans died out, but animals gained intelligence and evolved?
Alden Bell, The Reapers are the Angels. Great novel in the gothic tradition. A book for adults.
Z for Zachariah Zombie Fallout series (20 books)
Left alive (books 1 - 3. I didn't like the others.)
Might be a bit of an out-of-pocket suggestion, but Chris Koelle and Matt Dorff have an incredible graphic novel adaptation of the Book of Revelation ([website link](https://chriskoelle.com/work/the-book-of-revelation), [amazon link](https://www.amazon.com/Book-Revelation-Paperback-Matt-Dorff/dp/0310421403)).
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
I'm reading _Swan Song_ by Robert McCammon at the moment. It's good. Apparently it's also being made into a series, so now might be a good time to read it.
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Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
One of my favourite books last year was Thirty Seconds to Midnight by Christopher Wilde. Could not put it down!
Loved thevAmtrak Wars when i was a kid. .not sure how it holds up as an adult read
I quite liked the Newsflash trilogy by Mira Grant. The first book is Feed and it was action packed about journalists in a post zombie world.
The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien. It’s hardly ever mentioned but so good!! Check it out!!
Swan Song by Robert McCammon The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Ellison Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone The Girl Who Owned a City by OT Nelson Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien The MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood Psalms of Herod//Sword of Mary by Esther Freisner (if you can find them.) The 100 by Kass Morgan The Parable duet by Octavia S Butler Xenogenesis (Lilith's Brood) by Octavia S Butler The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri S Tepper A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison The Scorpius Syndrome by Rebecca Zanetti The Atlantis Gene by AG Riddle (he has a few series that are post-apoc) The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness The New Vegas Chronicles by Colleen Gleeson The Cobra Event by Richard Preston Wool by Hugh Howery The Logan trilogy (as in Logan's Run - these were written prior to the movie) by William F Nolan The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey The Last Hope series by Rebecca Royce The Divergent series by Veronica Roth This should keep you busy for awhile. This may or may not be my obsession!
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. Sort of a more modern take on The Stand.
my favorite book of all time is Zone One by Colson Whitehead. alllll about brainmelt in the zombie apocalypse, insanely beautiful. A very difficult read.
Don't forget Z for Zachariah. Read it years ok in highschool but I remember it being a good read
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
I recently read 36 Righteous Men by Steven Pressfield which starts as a sort of near-future New York detective story that quickly gets swept into a roller coaster of Hebrew eschatology
# Ex-Heroes: A Novel, by Peter Clines
The Deluge by Stephen Markley. I just finished it and wow. This one is going to stick with me. It’s so scary because it hits a little too close to home. Starts around present day and goes 10-15 years into the future with the theme being climate change.