Classic post-apocalyptic fiction
Explore the best classic post-apocalyptic fiction books. Discover timeless tales of survival, dystopia, and humanity's resilience in these must-read apocalyptic novels.
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Aftermath
by Charles Sheffield
An exploding star causes electromagnetic storms which destroy most of the world's computers. The novel traces the effect of this on various people, from patients …
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller (Jr.)
The winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Miller's bestselling work is a true landmark of 20th-century literature--a chilling and still-provocative look at …
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
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The City, Not Long After
by Pat Murphy
An army of power-hungry men are descending on San Francisco. Jax and danny-boy must lead the fight for freedom using the only weapons they have-art, …
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Dies the Fire
by S. M. Stirling
An electrical storm over Nantucket island causes all electrical devices to cease function, and as some people band together, others are building armies for conquest.
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Down to a Sunless Sea
by David Graham
A collapsed economy and an increasingly savage society were causing thousands to abandon America. Captain Jonah Scott was a pilot, hired to fly some lucky …
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Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
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, …
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.
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The Folk of the Fringe
by Orson Scott Card
Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the …
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A Gift Upon the Shore
by M. K. Wren
After surviving a nuclear war, two women live on a subsistence farm in the Pacific Northwest. Together they seek to preserve the knowledge of the …
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The Last Ship
by William Brinkley
In the aftermath of nuclear war, the Navy destroyer "Nathan James" and its crew--including twenty-six women--searches the seas for a place where survival would be …
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Logan's Run
by William F. Nolan
The classic dystopian novel in which youth rules the world and good citizens must die when they turn twenty-one, or run for the mythical Sanctuary …
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
The classical study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
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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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Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities
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On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
In California in the year 2025, a small community is overrun by desperate scavengers, as an eighteen-year-old African American woman sets off on foot on …
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The Stand
by Stephen King
June 16, 1985. That is when the horror began--the evil that started in a laboratory and took over America.
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This Is the Way the World Ends
by James Morrow
George Paxton was an ordinary man until something extraordinary happened--nuclear holocaust. Now George Paxton is about to discover what happens after the end of the …
