Bestselling Apocalyptic Fiction
Explore the top bestselling apocalyptic fiction books that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Discover thrilling tales of survival, dystopia, and the end of the world from master storytellers.
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World War Z
by Max Brooks
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly …
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Wastelands
by John Joseph Adams
With stories from George R.R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones), Gene Wolf, Carol Emshwiller, Stephen King, and more! "I can't help but give this …
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Day by Day Armageddon
by J. L. Bourne
An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps …
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Plague of the Dead
by Z. A. Recht
The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind as ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in …
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Earth Abides
by George Rippey Stewart
Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed human civilization during his absence and makes his way to San …
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Thunder and Ashes (the Morningstar Strain)
by Z. A. Recht
A lot can change in three months: wars can be decided, nations can be forged... or entire species can be brought to the brink of …
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Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven
“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer The gigantic comet had slammed into …
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Swan Song
by Robert McCammon
An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force …
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2012
by Gregory Bernard Banks
It's December 21, 2012. Three men find themselves trapped in an elevator, forced to confront the terrible mistakes they've made in their lives and desparate …
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Dying to Live
by Kim Paffenroth
Jonah Caine, a lone survivor in a zombie-infested world, struggles to understand the apocalypse in which he lives. Unable to find a moral or sane …
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, …
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Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
by Victor Gischler
Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out …
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Beyond Armageddon
by Walter M. Miller
Twenty-one short stories explore the nature of life in the aftermath of a nuclear war, in an anthology that features works by such distinguished science …
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Phoenix Tales: Stories of Death and Life
by Gregory Bernard Banks
An elderly man desperate for the right to die with dignity. A young woman trapped in a city that's seemingly alive. A man living on …
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival …
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The Stand
by Stephen King
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form …
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The Rage Plague
by Anthony Giangregorio
An unknown virus spreads across the globe, turning ordinary people into ravenous killers. Only a small population proves to be immune, but most quickly fall …