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Apocalyptic Fiction Books
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The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,010,465 ratings — published 2006
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 54 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 819,559 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 — 559,405 ratings — published 2006
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 596,440 ratings — published 2014
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 221,066 ratings — published 2010
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 241,957 ratings — published 2014
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,674,320 ratings — published 2008
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 283,381 ratings — published 2003
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 74,080 ratings — published 2009
Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
by (shelved 21 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,035 ratings — published 1959
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 206,451 ratings — published 2014
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 74,532 ratings — published 1987
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 267,045 ratings — published 2012
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 117,388 ratings — published 1959
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,629,419 ratings — published 2010
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 146,492 ratings — published 2013
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,310,859 ratings — published 2011
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,581 ratings — published 1957
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,051,933 ratings — published 2009
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 245,824 ratings — published 1993
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 476,138 ratings — published 2013
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 131,531 ratings — published 2009
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 115,778 ratings — published 1951
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.66 — 94,314 ratings — published 2012
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,349,372 ratings — published 1985
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,127 ratings — published 1977
Dust (Silo, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 131,266 ratings — published 2013
The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 105,224 ratings — published 2012
Earth Abides (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,340 ratings — published 1949
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 132,702 ratings — published 2006
The Fireman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 64,036 ratings — published 2016
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,748,596 ratings — published 1953
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 322,038 ratings — published 2015
The Dog Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 70,418 ratings — published 2012
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 343,142 ratings — published 1898
Cell (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.66 — 234,469 ratings — published 2006
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,592 ratings — published 2008
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,412 ratings — published 1954
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 430,721 ratings — published 1963
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,603,561 ratings — published 2012
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,646,950 ratings — published 2009
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 — 814,058 ratings — published 1990
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 40,100 ratings — published 2018
Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,401 ratings — published 2019
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 81,483 ratings — published 2013
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,275,353 ratings — published 2011
Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 244,693 ratings — published 1995
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 125,448 ratings — published 2018
The Strain (The Strain #1)
by (shelved 8 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 89,655 ratings — published 2009
The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as apocalyptic-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 60,417 ratings — published 2016
“The Voice of Prophecy kept not sounding like what one would expect a voice of prophecy to sound like. Where were all the thees and thous?”
― The Four Myths
― The Four Myths
“—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 over—”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
