“What are the best Post-Apocalypse?” We looked at 325 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
Although our Best Post-Apocalyptic book list has several similarities with the Dytopian Book List we created earlier this year, the subject matter is just different enough to provide several hundred unique apocalyptic titles. The top 37 books, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Apocalypse” book lists, are ranked below by how many of those lists they appeared on, including images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 250+ titles, as well as the articles we used, are listed alphabetically at the bottom of the page.
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Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.
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“The Roadmakers left only ruins behind — but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too — a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka’s brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact — a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court — which has inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Gathering an unlikely band of companions around her, Chaka embarks upon a journey where she will encounter bloodthirsty rirver pirates, electronic ghosts who mourn their lost civilization and machines that skim over the ground and air. Ultimately, the group will learn the truth about their own mysterious past.”
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Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house. What he hadn’t expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.
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“In this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth.
As Toby explains their origins to the curious Crakers, her tales cohere into a luminous oral history that sets down humanity’s past—and points toward its future. Blending action, humor, romance, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Atwood—a moving and dramatic conclusion to her epic work of speculative fiction.”
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In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn’t want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
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The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
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“2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, and might yet be–and dreams of playing a crucial role in America’s rebirth.
The Wild Shore is the first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s highly-acclaimed Three Californias Trilogy.”
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Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon — these are our guides through the Wastelands… From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon.
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High school sophomore Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like “one marble hits another.” The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove.
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Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state―and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture―rebel, change agent, and artist.
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The Chung-Li 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 counter-virus will be developed any day. Then Chung-Li mutates and spreads. Wheat, barley, oats, rye: no grass crop is safe, and global famine threatens. In Britain, where green fields are fast turning brown, the Government lies to its citizens, devising secret plans to preserve the lives of a few at the expense of the many. Getting wind of what’s in store, John Custance and his family decide they must abandon their London home to head for the sanctuary of his brother’s farm in a remote northern valley. And so they begin the long trek across a country fast descending into barbarism, where the law of the gun prevails, and the civilized values they once took for granted become the price they must pay if they are to survive.
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“Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.
But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.”
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“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 keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite, but they don’t laugh.
The Girl With All the Gifts is a groundbreaking thriller, emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end.”
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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games,” a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.
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Set in the visionary future of Atwood’s acclaimed Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can’t stay locked away.
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“For suspense-filled, post-apocalyptic thrillers, Wool is more than a self-published ebook phenomenon―it’s the new standard in classic science fiction.
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.
His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
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“Is anyone out there?
Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors.
But the smoke from a distant campfire shatters Ann’s solitude. Someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.”
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A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man’s worst appetites and weaknesses-and man’s ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man’s will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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“Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now…”
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The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley’s circle, particularly Shelley’s late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
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“Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.
Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.”
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In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth’s last survivors have been drawn into a final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity. There’s Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets…Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station…and Swan, a young girl possessing special powers, who travels alongside Josh to a Missouri town where healing and recovery can begin with her gifts. But the ancient force behind earth’s devastation is scouring the walking wounded for recruits for its relentless army…beginning with Swan herself.
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In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, J.G. Ballard’s mesmerizing and ferociously prescient The Drowned World imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming has melted the ice caps, and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and slowly, Kearns and his companions are transformed―both physically and psychologically―by this prehistoric environment. The Drowned World is both a thrilling adventure and haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.
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Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
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“Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.
But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.”
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“Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
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The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival–a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known..
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New York Times best selling 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 back to the Dark Ages…A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.
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An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival,The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
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“This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin’s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.
He was a survivor–a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.”
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After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a bleak tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life. Both terrifying and intensely moving, On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.
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A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he’d either dreaded or hoped for.
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“Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn…”
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“In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.
In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind’s salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself—for meaning, for truth, for love—that offers hope for humanity’s rebirth from the ashes.”
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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
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A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
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“Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.”
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
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| 38 | 299 Days: The Preparation | Glen Tate | Franklin Horton |
| M.L. Banner | |||
| 39 | A Gift Upon the Shore | M.K. Wren | Ash Tales |
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| 40 | After London | Richard Jefferies | The Knowledge |
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| 41 | California | Edan Lepucki | Bustle |
| Goodreads | |||
| 42 | Children of the Dust | Louise Lawrence | Ash Tales |
| The Knowledge | |||
| 43 | Damnation Alley | Roger Zelazny | Ash Tales |
| The Survivalist Blog | |||
| 44 | Dark Advent | Brian Hodge | The Survivalist Blog |
| The Guilded Earlobe | |||
| 45 | Dark Recollections (Adrian’s Undead Diary #1) | Chris Philbrook | Zombie Pop |
| Goodreads | |||
| 46 | Dark Towers Series | Stephen King | Pop Crunch |
| For Reading Addicts | |||
| 47 | Divergent Series | Veronica Roth | Goodreads |
| For Reading Addicts | |||
| 48 | Down to a Sunless Sea | David Graham | Ash Tales |
| The Knowledge | |||
| 49 | Emergence | David Palmer | Best Sci-fi Books |
| The Guilded Earlobe | |||
| 50 | Galapagos | Kurt Vonnegut | Lit Reactor |
| Best Sci-fi Books | |||
| 51 | Junk Day | Arthur Sellings | Ash Tales |
| The Knowledge | |||
| 52 | Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) | Octavia E. Butler | Bustle |
| Goodreads | |||
| 53 | Patriots | James W. Rawles | Franklin Horton |
| The Survivalist Blog | |||
| 54 | Planet Of The Apes | Pierre Boulle | Best Science Fiction Books |
| Listverse | |||
| 55 | Sand Omnibus (Sand, #1-5) | Hugh Howey | Best Sci-fi Books |
| Goodreads | |||
| 56 | Shift | Hugh Howey | Best Sci-fi Books |
| Goodreads | |||
| 57 | Some Will Not Die | Algis Budrys | The Knowledge |
| The Survivalist Blog | |||
| 58 | Stand On Zanzibar | John Brunner | Best Science Fiction Books |
| The Survivalist Blog | |||
| 59 | Survivors | Terry Nation | The Survivalist Blog |
| The Guilded Earlobe | |||
| 60 | The Chrysalids | John Wyndham | Ash Tales |
| For Reading Addicts | |||
| 61 | The Forest of Hands and Teeth | Carrie Ryan | Ash Tales |
| Bustle | |||
| 62 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | Brightly |
| Goodreads | |||
| 63 | The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) | Stephen King | Ash Tales |
| Goodreads | |||
| 64 | The Last Ship | William Brinkley | Abebooks |
| Goodreads | |||
| 65 | The Remaining | D.J. Molles | Zombie Pop |
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| 66 | The Rift | Walter J. Williams | Tor |
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| 67 | The Scarlet Plague | Jack London | The Knowledge |
| The Guilded Earlobe | |||
| 68 | The Slynx | Tatyana Tolstaya | Ash Tales |
| Abebooks | |||
| 69 | The Strain | Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan | Zombie Pop |
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| 70 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | Best Science Fiction Books |
| The Knowledge | |||
| 71 | The Twelve | Justin Cronin | Ash Tales |
| Goodreads | |||
| 72 | The Water Knife | Paolo Bacigalupi | io9 |
| Business Insider | |||
| 73 | Things We Didn’t See Coming | Steven Amsterdam | Ash Tales |
| The Knowledge | |||
| 74 | World Made by Hand | James Howard Kunstler | Post Apocalyptic Media |
| The Knowledge | |||
| 75 | Zone One | Colson Whitehead | Goodreads |
| The Guardian | |||
| (Titles Appears On 1 List Each) | |||
| 76 | 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | io9 |
| 77 | ‘48 | James Herbert | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 78 | 100 Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses | Lucy Corin | The Guardian |
| 79 | 2050: A Future History – Series | J. Zornado | Eco-Fiction |
| 80 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain | The Knowledge |
| 81 | A Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe | The Knowledge |
| 82 | A New World Chaos | John O’Brien | Zombie Pop |
| 83 | After the Fall – Tales of the Apocalypse | Robert Holtom | Goodreads |
| 84 | Aftermath (The Remaining, #2) | D.J. Molles | Goodreads |
| 85 | All Fools’ Day | Edmund Cooper | The Survivalist Blog |
| 86 | Allegiance (The Remaining, #5) | D.J. Molles | Goodreads |
| 87 | America Pacifica: A Novel | Anna North | Abebooks |
| 88 | Ariel | Pop Crunch | |
| 89 | Arisen Series | Michael Stephen Fuchs & Glynn James | M.L. Banner |
| 90 | Ashfall (Ashfall, #1) | Mike Mullin | Goodreads |
| 91 | Atlantic Gene (The Origin Mystery Series) | A G Riddle | M.L. Banner |
| 92 | Atlas Shrugged, | Ayn Rand | The Survivalist Blog |
| 93 | Autumn (Autumn, #1) | David Moody | Goodreads |
| 94 | Beyond Series Bundle (Books 1-3) | Kit Rocha | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 95 | Beyond the Night: Envy Chronicles, Book 1 (The Envy Chronicles) | Colleen Gleason, Joss Ware | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 96 | Black River Falls | Jeff Hirsch | Norma Hinkens |
| 97 | Blood Crazy | Simon Clark | Goodreads |
| 98 | Bloodtide | Melvin Burgess | Tor |
| 99 | Blue Plague Series | Thomas A. Watson | M.L. Banner |
| 100 | Book of the New Sun | Pop Crunch | |
| 101 | Branded (A Sinners Series Book 1) | Abi Ketner | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 102 | Breathe | Sarah Crossan | io9 |
| 103 | Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
| 104 | Cell | Stephen King | Ash Tales |
| 105 | Chasing the Phoenix | Michael Swanwick | Tor |
| 106 | Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke | Best Sci-fi Books |
| 107 | Children of Men | PD James | The Guardian |
| 108 | Chrysalids | Pop Crunch | |
| 109 | Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1) | Marissa Meyer | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 110 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | The Knowledge |
| 111 | Critical Dawn | Darren Wearmouth & Colin F. Barnes | Zombie Pop |
| 112 | CyberStorm | Matthew Mather | Best Sci-fi Books |
| 113 | Darkest Before Dawn (A Guardian’s Diary Book 1) | Maryse’s Book Blog | |
| 114 | Day | Day Armageddon | Goodreads |
| 115 | Daybreak – 2250 AD (Star Man’s Son) | Andre Norton | Abebooks |
| 116 | Dead of Night (Dead of Night, #1) | Jonathan Maberry | Goodreads |
| 117 | Death Wind | William C. Heine | The Survivalist Blog |
| 118 | Deathlands – series | James Axler | The Survivalist Blog |
| 119 | Deus Irae | Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny | The Knowledge |
| 120 | Dog Blood (Hater, #2) | David Moody | Goodreads |
| 121 | Dream Caster (Dream Cycle, #1) | Najeev Raj Nadarajah | Goodreads |
| 122 | Dust | Hugh Howey | Best Sci-fi Books |
| 123 | Dying Earth by Jack Vance | Pop Crunch | |
| 124 | Earth Blood (3 book series) and The Death lands books | James Axler | The Survivalist Blog |
| 125 | Earthworm Gods | Brian Keene | Horror Novel Reviews |
| 126 | Empire Of The East | Fred Saberhagen | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 127 | Empty Cradle: Shiloh in the Circle (Empty Cradle, #2) | Emmy Jackson | Goodreads |
| 128 | Empty Cradle: The Untimely Death of Corey Sanderson | Emmy Jackson | Goodreads |
| 129 | Enclave (Razorland, #1) | Ann Aguirre | Goodreads |
| 130 | End of Days | Robert Gleason | Tor |
| 131 | EX-Heroes | Peter Clines | Zombie Pop |
| 132 | Find Me | Laura van den Berg | Bustle |
| 133 | Fire and Ice – | Ray Kytle | The Survivalist Blog |
| 134 | Fire in Winter (Surviving the Dead, #4) | James N. Cook | Goodreads |
| 135 | First Light (The Zombie Prophecies, #1) | Adam Sigrist | Goodreads |
| 136 | Footfall | Jerry Pournelle | The Survivalist Blog |
| 137 | Footprints Of Thunder | James F. David | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 138 | Fractured (The Remaining, #4) | D.J. Molles | Goodreads |
| 139 | Future Eden | J. M Morgan | The Survivalist Blog |
| 140 | Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2) | Lois Lowry | Goodreads |
| 141 | Genesis Girl (Blank Slate #1) | Jennifer Bardsley | Norma Hinkens |
| 142 | Girlfriend in a Coma | Douglas Coupland | The Knowledge |
| 143 | Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse | Victor Gischler | Goodreads |
| 144 | GOING HOME | Angery American | Franklin Horton |
| 145 | Gold Fame Citrus | Claire Vaye Watkins | io9 |
| 146 | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Terry Pratchett | Goodreads |
| 147 | Greenhouse Summer | Norman Spinrad | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 148 | Gutted | Justin Chin | The Guardian |
| 149 | Harvest of Stars, | Paul Anderson | The Survivalist Blog |
| 150 | Hater (Hater, #1) | David Moody | Goodreads |
| 151 | Hell Divers (Hell Divers #1) | Nicholas Sansbury Smith | Goodreads |
| 152 | High Couch of Silistra (Silistra, #1) | Janet E. Morris | Goodreads |
| 153 | Holding Their Own | Joe Nobody | Zombie Pop |
| 154 | Hollowland (The Hollows, #1) | Amanda Hocking | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 155 | How I Live Now | Meg Rosoff | Goodreads |
| 156 | Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Zombie Pop |
| 157 | Ice Schooner | Pop Crunch | |
| 158 | Immortality Inc | Robert Sheckley | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 159 | In the Country of Last Things | Paul Auster | Goodreads |
| 160 | Incarceron | Catherine Fisher | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 161 | Indian Hill: A Michael Talbot Adventure | Mark Tufo | Zombie Pop |
| 162 | Into the Forest | Jean Hegland | Eco-Fiction |
| 163 | Island in the Sea of Time | S.M Stirling | The Knowledge |
| 164 | Jack Faust | Michael Swanwick | The Knowledge |
| 165 | Julian Comstock | Robert Charles Wilson | Tor |
| 166 | Kate Daniels Series | Pop Crunch | |
| 167 | Kingsley | Carolyn O’Neal | Eco-Fiction |
| 168 | Level 7 | Mordecai Roshwald | Ash Tales |
| 169 | Lights Out | David Crawford | M.L. Banner |
| 170 | Locust Girl | Merlinda Bobis | Eco-Fiction |
| 171 | Logan’s Run | William F. Nolan | Huffington Post |
| 172 | Long Voyage Back | Luke Rehinhart | The Survivalist Blog |
| 173 | Lost Everything | Brian Francis Slattery | Tor |
| 174 | Malevil, | Robert Merle | The Survivalist Blog |
| 175 | Mara and Dann | Doris Lessing | Eco-Fiction |
| 176 | Maze Runner | James Dashner | For Reading Addicts |
| 177 | Messenger (The Giver, #3) | Lois Lowry | Goodreads |
| 178 | Metro 2033 | Dmitry Glukhovsky | Horror Novel Reviews |
| 179 | Mister Touch | Malcolm Bosse | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 180 | Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
| 181 | Mortal Engines Quartet | Pop Crunch | |
| 182 | Music City Macabre (The Low Lying Lands Saga, Volume 1) | Bob Williams | Goodreads |
| 183 | Nemesis Games | James S.A. Corey | Tor |
| 184 | Nightwings | Pop Crunch | |
| 185 | No Blade of Grass, | John Christopher | The Survivalist Blog |
| 186 | No Easy Hope (Surviving the Dead, #1) | James N. Cook | Goodreads |
| 187 | Odds Against Tomorrow | Nathaniel Rich | io9 |
| 188 | On the Edge of Gone | Corinne Duyvis | Norma Hinkens |
| 189 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Dave Wallis | The Survivalist Blog |
| 190 | Out of the Ashes series | William Johnstone | The Survivalist Blog |
| 191 | Partials | Dan Wells | Best Horror Novels |
| 192 | Path to Savagery | Robert Edmund Alter | The Survivalist Blog |
| 193 | Project Earth Series | Brenda Cooper | Eco-Fiction |
| 194 | Promise Me Darkness | Paige Weaver | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 195 | Pulling Through, | Dean Ing | The Survivalist Blog |
| 196 | Purification (Autumn, #3) | David Moody | Goodreads |
| 197 | Radio Hope | Sean McLachlan | Goodreads |
| 198 | Red Hill | Jamie McGuire | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 199 | Refugees (The Remaining, #3) | D.J. Molles | Goodreads |
| 200 | Refugees from the Righteous Horde | Sean McLachlan | Goodreads |
| 201 | Resurrection Day | Brendan DuBois | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 202 | Roadside Picnic | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | Ash Tales |
| 203 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | The Knowledge |
| 204 | Ruins of Earth | Thomas M | The Knowledge |
| 205 | Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | Ash Tales |
| 206 | Seveneves | Neal Stephenson | Tor |
| 207 | Shadowrun | Pop Crunch | |
| 208 | Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi | Tor |
| 209 | Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) | Adam Sternbergh | Goodreads |
| 210 | Silo (Wool) Series | Hugh Howey | For Reading Addicts |
| 211 | Sixth Column , | Heinlein | The Survivalist Blog |
| 212 | Soft Apocalypse | Will McIntosh | Tor |
| 213 | Stone Age | ML Banner | M.L. Banner |
| 214 | Stormlands | Pop Crunch | |
| 215 | Suffer The Children | Craig Dilouie | Zombie Pop |
| 216 | Summer of the Apocalypse | James Van Pelt | Goodreads |
| 217 | Supervolcano: Eruption | Harry Turtledove | Tor |
| 218 | Sword of Shannara | Pop Crunch | |
| 219 | Sword of Spirits | Pop Crunch | |
| 220 | Systemic Shock | Dean Ing | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 221 | Tenth of December | George Saunders | The Guardian |
| 222 | The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker | Flavorwire |
| 223 | The Alone Series | Darrell Maloney | M.L. Banner |
| 224 | The Ark | Annabel Smith | Goodreads |
| 225 | The Atlantis Plague | A.G. Riddle | Best Sci-fi Books |
| 226 | The Black Grail | Pop Crunch | |
| 227 | The Book of Dave | Will Self | The Knowledge |
| 228 | The Books of Ember | Pop Crunch | |
| 229 | The Castle Keeps | Andrew J Offutt | The Survivalist Blog |
| 230 | The Cave Children | A. T. Sonnleitner | The Knowledge |
| 231 | The City (Autumn, #2) | David Moody | Goodreads |
| 232 | The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau | Abebooks |
| 233 | The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3) | Justin Cronin | Goodreads |
| 234 | The Cross-Time Engineer | Leo Frankowski | The Knowledge |
| 235 | The Dark Roads | Wayne Lemmons | Eco-Fiction |
| 236 | The Defiant Series | John W. Vance | M.L. Banner |
| 237 | The Devil’s Children | Peter Dickinson | Abebooks |
| 238 | The Disappearance | Philip Wylie | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 239 | The Drive-In | Joe R. Lansdale | Huffington Post |
| 240 | The End | G. Michael Hopf | Zombie Pop |
| 241 | The End Has Come | John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey | The Knowledge |
| 242 | The End is Nigh | Hugh Howey and Jamie Ford | The Knowledge |
| 243 | The End is Now | Hugh Howey and Jamie Ford | The Knowledge |
| 244 | The Ends of the Circle, | Paul O. Williams | The Survivalist Blog |
| 245 | The Extinction Cycle | Nicholas Sansbury Smith | M.L. Banner |
| 246 | The Fallen | Jack Ziebell | Goodreads |
| 247 | The Flying Sorcerers | David Gerrold & Larry Niven | The Knowledge |
| 248 | The Foundation Trilogy | Isaac Asimov: Foundation | The Knowledge |
| 249 | The Furies | Keith Roberts | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 250 | The Gate to Women’s Country | Sheri S. Tepper | Goodreads |
| 251 | The Girl in the Road | Business Insider | |
| 252 | The Gone-Away World | Nick Harkaway | The Knowledge |
| 253 | The Guardians – series | Richard Austin | The Survivalist Blog |
| 254 | The Holy Trinity Series | Madeline Sheehan | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 255 | The Host (The Host, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | Goodreads |
| 256 | The Infection | Craig Dilouie | Zombie Pop |
| 257 | THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC | Steven Konkoly | Franklin Horton |
| 258 | The Last Children of Schewenborn | The Knowledge | |
| 259 | The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) | Ben H. Winters | Goodreads |
| 260 | The Last Town on Earth | Thomas Mullen | Goodreads |
| 261 | The Legend of Zero | Sara King | M.L. Banner |
| 262 | The Long Earth | Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | The Knowledge |
| 263 | The Long Loud Silence | Wilson Tucker | The Survivalist Blog |
| 264 | The Long Tomorrow | Leigh Brackett | Ash Tales |
| 265 | The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF | Mike Ashley | The Knowledge |
| 266 | The Martian | Andy Weir | The Knowledge |
| 267 | The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner) | James Dashner | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 268 | The McClane Apocalypse Series | Kate Morris, | M.L. Banner |
| 269 | The Mercy Journals | Claudia Casper | Eco-Fiction |
| 270 | The Mistborn Trilogy | Brandon Sanderson | Tor |
| 271 | The Mountain And The City | Brian Martinez | Zombie Pop |
| 272 | The Mysterious Island | Jules Verne | The Knowledge |
| 273 | The Old Man And The Wasteland | Nick ColeRead the review | Zombie Pop |
| 274 | The Only Ones | Business Insider | |
| 275 | THE PERSEID COLLAPSE | Steven Konkoly | Franklin Horton |
| 276 | The Peshouse | Jim Crace | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 277 | The Plague | Albert Camus | The Knowledge |
| 278 | The Planet of the Apes | Pierre Boulle | Ash Tales |
| 279 | The Purge of Babylon (Purge of Babylon, #1) | Sam Sisavath | Goodreads |
| 280 | The Quiet Earth | Craig Harrison | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 281 | The Reapers are the Angels (Reapers, #1) | Alden Bell | Goodreads |
| 282 | The Remedy Files: Illusion (Remedy Files #1) | Lauren Eckhardt | Goodreads |
| 283 | The Road to Winter | Mark Smith | Norma Hinkens |
| 284 | The Road Warrior | Lit Reactor | |
| 285 | The Scavenger | Sean McLachlan | Goodreads |
| 286 | The Scorpion Rules | Erin Bow | Eco-Fiction |
| 287 | The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1) | Gene Wolfe | Goodreads |
| 288 | The Sheep Look Up, | John Brunner | The Survivalist Blog |
| 289 | The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert | The Guardian |
| 290 | The Survivors Series | Angela White | M.L. Banner |
| 291 | The Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | The Knowledge |
| 292 | The Wake | Paul Kingsnorth | The Knowledge |
| 293 | The Walk | Lee Goldberg | Zombie Pop |
| 294 | The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3) | Stephen King | Ash Tales |
| 295 | The White Plague | Frank Herbert | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 296 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | io9 |
| 297 | The World Without Us | Time | |
| 298 | The Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Knowledge |
| 299 | The Zombie Survival Guide | Max Brooks | Ash Tales |
| 300 | This Immortal | Roger Zelazny | Best Science Fiction Books |
| 301 | This Shattered Land (Surviving the Dead, #2) | James N. Cook | Goodreads |
| 302 | Tunnel in the Sky , | Heinlein | The Survivalist Blog |
| 303 | Uglies (The Uglies Book 1) | Scott Westerfeld | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 304 | Under Dark Sky Law | Tamara Boyens | Goodreads |
| 305 | Unintended Consequences | John Ross | The Survivalist Blog |
| 306 | Until the End of the World | Sarah Lynn Flemming | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 307 | Unwind (Unwind Dystology Book 1) | Neal Shusterman | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 308 | Vandenberg, | Oliver Lange | The Survivalist Blog |
| 309 | Vic and Blood | Harlan Ellison | Horror Novel Reviews |
| 310 | Vicarious (Vicarious #1) | Paula Stokes | Norma Hinkens |
| 311 | Walkaway | Cory Doctorow | Eco-Fiction |
| 312 | Warday and Nature’s End, | Whitley Straub | The Survivalist Blog |
| 313 | Warrior Within (Surviving the Dead, #3) | James N. Cook | Goodreads |
| 314 | Watership Down | Lit Reactor | |
| 315 | What Becomes Us | Micah Perks | The Guardian |
| 316 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Series | W.J Lundy | M.L. Banner |
| 317 | White Horse | Alex Adams | Goodreads |
| 318 | Who Fears Death | Pop Crunch | |
| 319 | Wolf And Iron, | Gordon R. Dickson | The Survivalist Blog |
| 320 | Wolves | D.J. Molles | Goodreads |
| 321 | World Made | Hand | Goodreads |
| 322 | Y: The Last Man | Time | |
| 323 | Year Zero | Jeff Long | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 324 | Zazen | Vanessa Veselka | The Guardian |
| 325 | Zothique | Pop Crunch | |
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| Ash Tales | The 50 Best Post Apocalyptic Books |
| Best Horror Novels | Post-Apocalyptic Horror |
| Best Sci-fi Books | 21 Best Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction Books |
| Best Science Fiction Books | Best Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Books |
| Brightly | The Apocalypse for Grown-Ups: Great Dystopian Novels for Adults |
| Business Insider | Here’s how 4 brilliant sci-fi authors see the end of the world |
| Bustle | 6 Post-Apocalyptic Books By Women, And Why You Should Add Them To Your TBR |
| Eco-Fiction | Category Archives: Post-apocalyptic |
| Flavorwire | The 10 Best End of the World Novels |
| For Reading Addicts | The 19 Best Post-Apocalyptic Novels Ever Written |
| Franklin Horton | Some of my favorite Post-Apocalyptic / Prepper Novels |
| Goodreads | Very Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction |
| Horror Novel Reviews | Fear the Future: 10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Horror Novels |
| Huffington Post | Reading With Mad Max: 7 of the Finest Apocalyptic Novels |
| io9 | 7 Great Books That Show How Terrifying an Environmental Apocalypse Could Be |
| Listverse | 10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Novels |
| Lit Reactor | Wasteland Gems: Fiction’s Post-Apocalyptic Top 10 |
| M.L. Banner | Favorite Post-Apocalyptic Books |
| Maryse’s Book Blog | Recommended Post Apocalyptic (doesn’t have to be zombie!) books to devour… |
| Nerd Much | TOP 12 BEST POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOKS TO READ |
| Norma Hinkens | 5 YA Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Novels for 2016 |
| Pop Crunch | The 17 Best Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Novels |
| Post Apocalyptic Media | The Top 5 Post Apocalyptic Novels: A Beginner’s Guide |
| The Guardian | Top 10 books about the apocalypse |
| The Guilded Earlobe | My Top 10 Post Apocalyptic Novels: Plagues and Pandemics |
| The Knowledge | BEST POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOKS |
| The Richest | The 5 Best Post-Apocalyptic Stories of All Time |
| The Survivalist Blog | 41 Doomsday Fiction Books That You Should Be Reading! |
| Time | Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Books |
| Tor | Throw These Post-Apocalyptic Titles in Your Go Bag! |
| Zombie Pop | 25 Of The Best Zombie & Post Apocalyptic Books That I’ve Ever Read |
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