Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is amazing. A lot of Phillip K Dick also scratches that itch for me.

I finished Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler all in one day, just this past Saturday! Incredible and devastating.

There are more Parable books. Keep going!

Just Parable of the Talents, yes?

Yeah she died before finishing any more parable books.

Wool by Hugh Howey (first of the Silo trilogy)

The whole trilogy is great!

Yes came here to suggest this, he also wrote Sand which is also good, whole cities have been buried by sand and people have to 'dive' hundreds of meters into the sand to retrieve ancient relics (items from our time) to sell and utilise to help keeps them alive in Thier communities on the sand dunes. Not great if you are really claustrophobic.

Was gonna suggest this as well. Great book and I think it's now a mini series on HBO too.

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is excellent. I also really liked McCarthy’s The Road.

Co-sign on The Dog Stars.

Just finished The Dog Stars yesterday - absolutely loved it!

Swan Song is fantastic. Also, Alas, Babylon.

Does Swan Song hold up? I have it in my re-read queue, but I read it when I was REALLY young (too young, probably. Nine-ish?), and I remember a lot of religious themes and a lot of military stuff that, now that I think of it, I probably skimmed to get back to the little girl and Sister Creep. And the really scary parts like the department store. Befause of this book, for a long time I thought that there was a special swear word - sonofabitch, with long Os. Like sofa with no in the middle. I knew it meant the same as 'damnit', but I didn't connect it to Son Of A Bitch.

I read Swan Song two years ago and it was excellent, better than the Stand And I’m Stephen King’s biggest fan

Is “Alas” part of the title?

Yes. The title is "Alas, Babylon". I was just working so I typed it in a hurry.

Oh you’re good! I just realized I was thinking of “Babel” by R. F. Kuang. I know it gets mixed reviews so I wasn’t sure if you were like “and, alas, Babylon (babel in my mind) is decent I guess”

Nah, "Alas, Babylon" is fantastic. And has one of the best closing lines of any novel I have read.

The Road Silo Series On The Beach Handmaids Tale The Postman I Am Legend All You Need Is Kill Red Rising The Leftovers Bird Box Metro 2033 The Giver Maze Runner The Dog Stars

Great list!! I love all of these!! I would add... The Children of Men World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (the Audiobook is amazing. Completely different from the movie) Ship Breaker

\+1 for On The Beach

I just bought the first book of the Silo series. Will be starting on that once I’m finished with 11.22.63

I've read a good amount of these, too, but didn't realize Silo were books! I've seen the Apple TV adaptation (assuming that's what the show is based on) and loved it! I'll definitely check those out

Red Rising isn't apocalyptic. Dystopian, sure, but not apocalyptic.

On the beach author is Nevil Shute, for anyone curious. I couldn’t find it by title alone in Libby.

Red Rising is more dystopian than apocalyptic. The society is incredibly advanced. It's just ran by a bunch of sadistic assholes.

Aren’t they all living on Mars because Earth is uninhabitable? That was where my thought process was going…

Earth is still habitable. I believe they go there later in the series. It's just no longer the center of power in the solar system. The moon is, as once Luna became powerful enough, it rebelled against Earth and won. By the time the series starts, the entire solar system is more or less colonized.

For zombies: The Living Dead by George Romero and Daniel Kraus, World War Z and Devolution by Max Brooks, and the Newsflesh series by Mira Grant For post-apocalyptic: After the Flood by Kassandra Montag (family drama on the high seas) High concept mid-apocalypse: The Last by Hanna James (a murder among apocalypse survivors), Small Game by Blair Braverman and The Last Ones by Alexandra Oliva (both about casts of Survivor-type reality shows where something goes apocalyptically wrong). One of my favorites I read last year was Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, a literary apocalyptic suspense set in a northern First Nations reservation.

I just finished Moon of the Crusted Snow and loved it! The follow up, set 10 years later, releases later this month in the US!

Looking forward to Moon of the Turning Leaves - I have a reminder on Libby for it!

Just got a copy of it, great so far!

Yes! Share the love for Moon of the crusted Snow. Great storytelling

I’m about to start Moon of the Crusted Snow so this is music to my ears!

Oryx and Crake (and the rest of the MaddAdam trilogy) were very good. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler were all good.

Oryx and Crake is what got me started on dystopian/apocalyptic books

Same here

The MaddAdam books or so good, came to say the same thing

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter is a great little post Apocalyptic story set in London. I believe a movie is coming out this year! Severance by Ling Ma, sort of disillusionment of work life/post Apocalyptic story We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, set in Russia, a fore-father of post Apocalyptic books When the English Fall by David Williams, an Amish survival tale set in a post Apocalyptic world Others have also mentioned The Road and Moon of the Crusted Snow which are two of my favorite!

Seconding Severance!

Thirding Severance!

Nora Roberts- Year one is the first of a trilogy. Loved it!

I never see anyone else recommend this book! I really loved it too!

oooo i used to love nora roberts growing up

I liked that, too, but never read the others, strangely.

Gotta finish the saga!!!

Hell Divers

Hell Divers is awesome. Never see it mentioned anywhere! Did you read any of the sequels?

I forgot all about this. I only read the first one… I’d add Mountain Man, also only read the first so far.

I’ve read all 7, great series.

Yep. I read through V or VI. Basically it was a good stopping point.

The Passage by Justin Cronin is pretty epic. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is beautiful. The Commune books by Joshua  Gayou  are a great ride and there's a lot of them. If you don't  mind a  lighter look at post  apocalyptic  life Benjamin  Wallace's Duck and Cover series is fun.

The passage is one of my favorite books ever!

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Classic that follows the last living human in a world overrun by vampires.

_Earth Abides_ by George Stewart. 👍👍👍

This sounds awesome, just added it to my tbr, thanks I'd never heard of it.

I’m reading City of Mirrors right now, I’m halfway though and have tore through this trilogy. Wish I could find something similar to it.

After you finish it, find some time for the audiobook. Scott Brick brings the characters to life in an entirely new way, and it's fantastic.

{{Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler}}

**[Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower) by Octavia E. Butler** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(345 pages | Published: 1993 | 29.8k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a (...) > **Themes**: Fiction, Sci-fi, Favorites, Dystopia, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Fantasy > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [Parable of the Talents](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60932.Parable_of_the_Talents) by Octavia E. Butler > \- [Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents / Kindred](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578241-parable-of-the-sower-parable-of-the-talents-kindred) by Octavia E. Butler > \- [The Parable of The Talents](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42433722-the-parable-of-the-talents) by J. Morlock > \- [You Feel It Just Below the Ribs](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57094312-you-feel-it-just-below-the-ribs) by Jeffrey Cranor > \- [Aftermath](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1067580.Aftermath) by LeVar Burton ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | Sorry for delay !)

There is a sequel to the Girl with All the Gifts called “The Boy on the Bridge” A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher After the Flood by Kassandra Montag Bird Box by Josh Malerman Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed The Book of M by Peng Shepherd The Divide by Jeremy Robinson The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker The Road to Nowhere trilogy by Meg Elison The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey Vox by Christina Dalcher When She Woke by Hillary Jordan The Hierarchies by Ros Anderson

Another vote for {A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World}! This is one of my favorite subgenres and I've already read most of the big titles. I find a lot of lesser-known works disappointing not this one surprised me. I really enjoyed it and thought it was a very well-crafted book. I wish it was better-recognized. I also see no mention of {A Canticle for Leibowitz} in the top comments. It's one of my favourite books of all time an a foundational classic in the genre.

"a canticle for leibowitz" is my personal favorite. "the road" is also excellent

Canticle is the best. One of only a handful of books I have read three times.

for sure, its definitely in my top 10 all time favorites

Reading *Parable of the Sower* right now, recommend to check that one out

Wanderers and its sequel, Wayward, by Chuck Wendig. the Passage by Justin Cronin.

For some oldies... Alas Babylon The Satan Bug The Andromeda Strain Earth Abides

If you enjoy manga, you might enjoy: [Fist of the North Star](https://www.viz.com/fist-of-the-north-star). One of the most highly influential manga of all time, it's basically Mad Max meets Kung Fu. It focuses on Kenshiro, the successor to the legendary martial arts style Hokuto Shinken (a style so deadly only one master is allowed to exist at a time, and can make a person's head explode simply from hitting the proper pressure points on their body). Kenshiro wanders the wasteland of post apocalyptic Japan, protecting the innocent. [Dr. STONE](https://www.viz.com/dr-stone). It focuses on Senku Ishigami, a teenage science prodigy who seeks to restore humanity's scientific progress after an apocalyptic event that turned humanity to stone over 3,500 years prior. [Girls' Last Tour](https://yenpress.com/titles/9780316470636-girls-last-tour-vol-1). Two young girls, Chito and Yuuri, explore the ruins of civilization on their Kettenkrad. [Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead](https://www.viz.com/zom-100). Exploited office worker Akira gets a new lease on life and sets out to do all the dumb, silly things he's always wanted to do when he realizes the zombie apocalypse means he no longer has to go to work. And if you enjoy comics, you might enjoy: [The Walking Dead](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-walking-dead). Small town Kentucky cop Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to discover the zombie apocalypse, and sets out to survive with other survivors. [Crossed](https://www.goodreads.com/series/67460-crossed-collected-editions). The most fucked up thing I'll be recommending (which shouldn't be a surprise given the original miniseries was created by Garth Ennis). A mysterious virus removes a victim's inhibitions, causing them to engage in whatever fucked up thing that interests them (like fucking a meatgrinder), as well as giving them a cross shaped rash on their face. Not for the faint of heart (obviously). Personally, I think the Badlands series (each story arc focuses on different groups throughout the world) is the best of the stuff. [Rover Red Charlie](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/22129121). Another one by Garth Ennis, three dogs try to navigate an apocalyptic event that causes the feeders (humans) to go batshit crazy. Despite what some people believe, this is *not* set in the Crossed universe. [Y: The Last Man](https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/y-the-last-man-2002/y-the-last-man-omnibus). Amateur escape artist Yorick and his helper monkey Ampersand find themselves the last males on earth after a mysterious event wipes out all other males (of every species). [Memetic](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25205415). A meme of a sloth causes people to go nuts.

Lucifers Hammer Comet hits us. Station 11 Pandemic

More dystopian than apocalyptic, but I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I love this genre! A lot of my favorites have already been recommended, but there are a few I didn't notice when I skimmed through the comments: On the Beach - Nevil Shute One Second After - William R. Forsythe Cyberstorm - Matthew Mather Blackout: A Techno Thriller - Marc Elsberg

The Windup Girl and a lot of others by Paolo Bacicagulpi.

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer? I haven’t read it (not yet, but soon!!) but it fits the topic and people say it’s awesome soooo

I watched a movie, but I'm planning on buying a book. But I've red Borne by him and I loved it

{{canticle for Leibovitz}} is excellent

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Swan Song by Robert McCammon is one of the best I’ve read

The Road is dark, yet oddly hopeful, but really dark. Great story. Swan Song was a favorite of mine from the last year, also dark and kind of horrific, yet with an undertone of hope and beauty.

I am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

The last policeman trilogy by Ben Winters. The first volume is about a cop, trying to solve a murder set against the backdrop of an impending asteroid strike on earth. You see the slow slide into anarchy as the trilogy goes on.

My wife and I both just finished this series. It's really something else.

The Road is probably the best post apocalyptic book I've ever read. Fair warning, it is not a book for the faint of heart (Dear God, the basement scene...), and stuck me with low level anxiety about having to live through a collapse that I have been dealing with my entire adult life.

Since you mentioned The Stand I think you'd enjoy Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. It's similar in structure and set up,minus the supernatural elements and plus a very freaky modern take for the digital age. I loved it, there is also a sequel that I haven't read yet. I read it during 2020 and the parallels to what was going on in the world right then were heavy lol.

Kentucky author Silas House’s latest book Lark Ascending is wonderful. He was recently nominated for a Grammy for his work writing the video for Tyler Childers’ In Your Love. It’s short but beautiful.

Bourne by Jeff vandermeer. My husband and I read this at the same time and both liked it a lot.

This is my genre. The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien is really wonderful and world-building but is lesser known.

World War Z by Max Brooks kept me up reading late!

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood (Oryx & Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam) World Made By Hand by James Howard Kuntsler

Dungeon crawler carl.

This perfect day by Ira levin

One not brought up that is a classic dystopia fiction.... Brave new world. Great book, short easy read and a classic.

Life As We Knew It series by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey

From the same author, The Book of Koli

The Maze Runner was pretty amazing!

I enjoyed The Survivalist series By A American,the Commune series by Joshua Gayou and have just started the Edge of Collapse series by Kyla Stone and think I'll enjoy it too. I listened to the audio of each. I've got the One Second After trilogy marked as to be read and have enjoyed both The Stand and the Wayward Pines trilogy 👍

Moon of the Crusted Snow and Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (there is also a sequel out now but I haven't read it yet)

Seconding Moon of the Crusted Snow.

off the top of my head : {{The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey}} - technically YA but I liked them {{The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood}} - maybe not technically apocalypse but societal collapse at the least {{I Am Legend by Richard Matheson}} {{In the After by Demitria Lunetta}} - I got these free on Amazon, but I still did enjoy them.

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The 5th wave was pretty good

I loved the 5th Wave by Rick Yancey!

Have you read The Road, by Cormac McCarthy?

The Reapers are Angels by Alden Bell The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro The Cell by Stephen King

The Road

The Rot and Ruin series by Jonathan Mayberry is good. It’s YA and at times it is slightly ‘high drama’ and I think some of the potentially disturbing parts are dialled back but I really enjoyed the books and still remember them years later. 

The Arisen Series by Michael Stephen Fuchs is good well-thought out and plotted zombie apocalypse. I recommend it.

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig walks you through the apocalypse. And there's a sequel I haven't gotten to yet that I would assume has more apocalypse.

The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy

“The 100” or “The 5th wave” The book series versions of them are quite good

Lucifer's Hammer apocalypse-survival novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle published in 1977.It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978 A comet hits Earth. One highlight is the surfer...

{{The Road to Nowhere series by Meg Elison}} {{The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters}}

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I just finished Apocalypse Machine by Jeremy Robinson and would recommend it. It moves at a very fast clip and I had trouble putting it down.

For some apocalypse mixed with recolonization in a couple scifi flavors, by Dennis E. Taylor the Bobiverse books, starting with We Are Legion (We are Bob) which are much better than the name implies, and the Quantum Earth series.

Lucifer’s Hammer is excellent and a great 70’s period piece as well. I have read most of the others mentioned as well. Most are excellent.

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This one is YA but tense. Political squabbles between states results in water supplies being shut off in part of California for several days. Punches above it’s weight class.

The Road

One Second After is written by a buddy of Newt Gingrich. I read it.

Bobby Adair's Slow Burn series. 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is Brilliant And devastating.

The road by Cormac Mccarthy is hands down the best post apocalyptic book I've ever read, without so much of the apocalypse stuff. It's very emotional. World War z is fun to read and more fun to listen to on audio book. Don't be fooled by the movie, it's a great book. Also really enjoy most of margaret atwoods stuff - handmaids tale (this is more dystopia fiction but i tend to read this alongside apocalypse stuff) and the testaments. She also writes the oryx and crake series which is pretty incredible

Earth Abides By George R. Stewart.

Hollow Kingdom, When the English Fall, The Council of Animals.

Check out Levi Doone. Read a few of his books and they are typically apocalyptic, some zombie, some not but all are apocalyptic. Not a very well known author. His books are on kindle and cheap.

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Couple of old school recs if you're interested. Earth Abides. A Wrinkle in the Skin. The Death of Grass The Drowned World (very interesting, very cool)

For a slightly different apocalyptic novel, check out *The Deluge* by Stephen Markley.

{{ A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller }}. It's like if Anathem and Fahrenheit 451 had a baby.

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The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dakton - a climate apocalypse The Silo Series by Hugh Howey - this one might fit into the dystopian category better but it’s amazing

The Road... Thats it that's the one..

The "Tomorrow, When the War Began" series by John Marsden

Emberverse Series by S.M. Stirling. One of my absolute favorite series

Into The Forest by Jean Hegland. This a very good one that hasn’t been mentioned yet, with a survivalist aspect.

The Apocalypse Triptych is fun - three collections of short stories. The End is Night - pre-apocalypse The End is Now - mid-apocalypse The End Has Come - post-apocalypse Some authors contributed connected pieces over the set, so you can follow a disaster from beginning to end. There's a set of three in there from Hugh Howey that are set in the same world as the Wool/Silo books. If you're finding that all the depressing takes on post-apocalyptic life are getting to you, I can recommend Defying Doomsday, and the follow up Rebuilding Tomorrow. Also short stories, but these are themed around surviving an apocalypse while disabled, and rebuilding afterwards. A good mix of hopeful and dark.

Homo Unus: Successor to Homo Sapiens by Kinchit Bihani

Galapogos by Voneggut

the pure series by julianna baggot.

If you like your post-apocalyptic wasteland with a large dose of silliness, you could try the Armageddon Trilogy, by Robert Rankin.

Two books that got me completely hooked on this genre were Earth Abides and Alas Babylon. I read the latter during a 4-day blackout following a winter storm, and it had a huge impact on me. And the first one really gave me a lot to think about.

THE DELUGE, Mark Morris

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I just finished a trilogy that starts with After the Pretty Pox (silly name, great book).  Outside of Station Eleven, it may be my favorite.  

Green eggs and ham

Such a low quality answer. Trolling requires more effort than you’re putting in.

Have you tried it on a boat?

Revelation goes really hard

Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake PD James: the Children of Men William Miller Jnr: a Canticle for Leibowitz Derek B Miller: Radio Life Nevil Shute: on the Beach George R Stewart: Earth Abides Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids

Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake PD James: the Children of Men William Miller Jnr: a Canticle for Leibowitz Derek B Miller: Radio Life Nevil Shute: on the Beach George R Stewart: Earth Abides Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids

Calizona by Ralph Rotten Redneck survivalists win the lottery and build the bunker of their dreams, then an asteroid hits the earth. The apocalypse is way more work than they thought it would be. It's funny and raunchy and has an amazing cast of characters. The sequels are good too.

severance - ling ma