Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Apocalyptic books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
- The Road (2006)
- The Fall of America: Book 1: Premonition of Death (Volume 1) (2014)
- Rules of Survival: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Survival Rules Series) (2019)
- Minus America: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (2019)
- Oryx and Crake (2004)
- DISRUPTIVE SHOCK: An EMP Survival story (2019)
- Surviving the Fall: The Complete Bestselling Series (2019)
- End of Summer: A post viral-apocalypse story: Book One of the Seasons of Man (2019)
- Winchester: Over (Winchester Undead Book 1) (2015)
- The Survivors: Pandemic (2018)
- Forager (Forager Trilogy) (2013)
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The Road (2006)
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The Fall of America: Book 1: Premonition of Death (Volume 1) (2014)
It started with the “Biggest” stock market crash in history. Banks shut down under the weight of their bogus investments, and the financial sector failed. People looked to the government to make it all better. They couldn’t! Hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and infrastructure started to breakdown.
Rules of Survival: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Survival Rules Series) (2019)
He hated the rules until the power grid failed.Tyler Ford is a tour guide, a brother, and the son of a prepper from Whitefish, Montana. Robbed of a childhood and forced to learn his father’s stringent rules of survival for every kind of apocalypse, he couldn’t wait to leave home, but when an EMP obliterates the United States electrical grid, takes out communication and stalls vehicles, Tyler must face the past and remember what he taught him if he hopes to make it out of Vegas alive.
Minus America: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (2019)
The attack on America only takes a few minutes. The president has just enough time to sound the alarm. When it ends, nearly everyone on mainland USA is gone.Every policeman. Every housewife. Every trucker. Everyone.A continent free for the taking…Ted MacInnis is a backup pilot on Air Force Two, over the Atlantic, when it happens.
Oryx and Crake (2004)
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. ‘In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus.
DISRUPTIVE SHOCK: An EMP Survival story (2019)
A yearly trek to the carnival with his young sons is the highlight of Ian Carrol’s life. What begins as another opportunity to build lifelong memories quickly fades to black by the time the sun sets. The world and humanity at large take an inexplicable turn, leaving the struggling single father to resort to desperate measures to get his family to safety.
Surviving the Fall: The Complete Bestselling Series (2019)
Surviving the Fall is an epic survival/thriller post-apocalyptic series that asks the “what if” question that lurks in the back of everyone’s mind.When a devastating attack cripples and destroys every Internet-connected device in the country, Rick Waters is stranded a thousand miles from his wife, Dianne, and their children.
End of Summer: A post viral-apocalypse story: Book One of the Seasons of Man (2019)
When a viral apocalypse kills 97% percent of the people on the planet, the survivor’s humanity is hanging by a thread. Fighting over the leftovers of civilization, what’s needed is a hero that’s more killer than saint. The people he finds become family and that is very bad news for those who think they are running things.
Winchester: Over (Winchester Undead Book 1) (2015)
The nuclear missiles killed millions. The chemtrails brought them back to life. When the end came, it was swift and brutal. The EMP from atmospheric detonations occurred just before Christmas. Chinese bombs spreading poison on major metropolitan centers follow, only hours later. Then the dead began to walk and to kill with terrifying speed. The government, from the President to the foot soldier, fell in three days. Nine out of ten – maybe more – were dead before Valentine’s Day.
The Survivors: Pandemic (2018)
“I didn’t realise how much I would miss grocery shopping until it was gone.” Life was pretty good. The love of Alice’s life had proposed, they were proud new homeowners, and she’d just landed a great promotion at work. Things were going to plan. Well, they were, until the Red Death struck. Billions dead in a matter of weeks. The survivors are few and far between. No one is safe. Life will never be the same again.
Forager (Forager Trilogy) (2013)
A century after an apocalyptic war devastates the planet and reduces all countries to smouldering ruins, Melbourne’s remnant population huddles behind twelve-foot walls. But are these walls for protection from the Skel savages who roam the city’s ruins, or to imprison the people and subject them to archaic rules enforced by the ruthless Custodians.
Best Apocalyptic Books You Should Read
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A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma
Author(s): Carlo Bonomi
ID: 3551067, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Apocalyptic California: Gender in Climate Fiction
Author(s): MaryKate Messimer
ID: 3711105, Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene
Author(s): Earl T. Harper (editor), Doug Specht (editor)
ID: 3229312, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 8 Mb, Format: pdf
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