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Apocalyptic Fiction Books
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The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 � 983,135 ratings � published 2006
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 50 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 � 805,080 ratings � published 1978
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 � 551,299 ratings � published 2006
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 � 576,894 ratings � published 2014
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 � 218,907 ratings � published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 � 9,417,971 ratings � published 2008
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 � 238,576 ratings � published 2014
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 � 279,399 ratings � published 2003
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 � 357,858 ratings � published 2012
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 � 72,167 ratings � published 2009
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 � 202,729 ratings � published 2014
Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
by (shelved 20 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 � 47,539 ratings � published 1959
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 � 72,980 ratings � published 1987
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 � 136,997 ratings � published 2013
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 � 471,922 ratings � published 2013
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 � 115,352 ratings � published 1959
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 � 222,621 ratings � published 1993
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 � 4,239,087 ratings � published 2011
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 � 3,508,917 ratings � published 2010
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 � 129,932 ratings � published 2009
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 � 3,914,941 ratings � published 2009
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 � 113,689 ratings � published 1951
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.66 � 93,789 ratings � published 2012
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 � 47,443 ratings � published 1957
Dust (Silo, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 � 122,674 ratings � published 2013
The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 � 104,097 ratings � published 2012
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 � 2,262,813 ratings � published 1985
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 � 44,858 ratings � published 1977
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 � 131,773 ratings � published 2006
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 � 307,933 ratings � published 2015
Earth Abides (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 � 32,319 ratings � published 1949
The Fireman (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 � 62,831 ratings � published 2016
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 � 1,580,898 ratings � published 2012
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 � 335,790 ratings � published 1898
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 � 134,536 ratings � published 1954
The Dog Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 � 68,672 ratings � published 2012
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 � 423,875 ratings � published 1963
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 � 1,620,151 ratings � published 2009
Cell (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.66 � 231,483 ratings � published 2006
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 � 2,660,248 ratings � published 1953
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 � 801,486 ratings � published 1990
Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 � 28,592 ratings � published 2019
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 � 80,309 ratings � published 2013
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 � 1,250,974 ratings � published 2011
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 � 10,499 ratings � published 2008
Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 � 242,124 ratings � published 1995
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 � 118,384 ratings � published 2018
The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 � 88,927 ratings � published 2009
The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 � 59,518 ratings � published 2016
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.60 � 1,111,380 ratings � published 2013
“Like all apocalyptic writers, the author despises people in general and fantasizes about the destruction of everyone different from him and his chosen group.”
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
“—which is to say I’ve had the opportunity to speak with a great many people about postapocalyptic literature. I’ve heard a great many theories about why there’s such interest in the genre. One person suggested to me that it had to do with economic inequality, that in a world that can seem fundamentally unfair, perhaps we long to just blow everything up and start overâ€�”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
