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- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (1951) It feels mildly ridiculous now—or maybe just mild—but Wyndham’s killer-plant-cum-blindness-inducing-meteor-strike apocalypse is a classic for a reason: it’s terrific fun.
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954) At this point, Matheson’s pandemic/vampire/zombie novel is more famous for being source material than for being actual material, probably because it is overflowing with ideas.
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014) Your favorite novel in which a flu pandemic wipes out civilization in a matter of weeks (yikes) and a band of entertainers wander the decimated land, putting on Shakespeare plays for the survivors.
- Wilson Tucker, The Long Loud Silence (1952) Everything east of the Mississippi has been destroyed by a nuclear attack; the scant survivors have been dosed with a bioweapon that has infected them with the plague (just to be safe, I suppose).
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- Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica. ‘In the end, meat is meat. It doesn’t matter where it came from.’ That quote is enough to leave any reader hooked on what Bazterrica’s post-apocalyptic future holds, and it is so much more than you can imagine.
- Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Written before the pandemic, Leave The World Behind still manages to capture every emotion of the panic and uncertainty the world seems gripped in today.
- The Memory Police by Yogo Ogawa. Memory serves as our most important tool for keeping in touch with our past. But what happens when you can’t trust that memory anymore?
- When The Rain Stops by J.S. Sutton. Sutton’s new novel takes on a question few can debate and even fewer target head on: climate change. In a futuristic world destroyed by climate change and nuclear war, humanity lives in a world in the clouds.
- Zombie Books. Read the guide: The 21 Best Zombie Books. Zombie books are stories in which the undead play a significant role in the plot. This can be anything from a full-fledged zombie apocalypse to a single zombie character.
- Nuclear War Books. Read the guide: The 19 Best Books About Nuclear War. Post-apocalyptic fiction was largely birthed during the cold war. The threat of nuclear war, hanging like the sword of Damocles, was a constant source of anxiety for many people, and as such, it was only natural that this fear would find its way into the stories being told.
- EMP Books. Read the guide: EMP Books: 6 Essential Books About Electromagnetic Pulses. An EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, is a sudden burst of electromagnetic energy that can disable or destroy electronic equipment.
- Climate Fiction Books. Read the guide: The 8 Best Climate Fiction Books. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today, and it’s only natural that it would find its way into post-apocalyptic fiction.
Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in a non-technological future world or a world where only scattered elements of society and technology remain. Various ancient societies, including the Babylonian and Judaic, produced apocalyptic literature and mythology which dealt with the end of the world and human society, such as the Epic of ...
Luckily for those who’d need some quick survival tips, we at Reedsy have compiled a list of the 10 best post-apocalyptic books to read before the world ends: so that if it does, you’ll find yourself prepared.
Post Apocalyptic genre: new releases and popular books, including The Failures by Benjamin Liar, Private Rites by Julia Armfield, Service Model by Adrian...
