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Apocalypse

Kyle West · 262 pages

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Three

Jay Posey · 448 pages

"The world has collapsed, and there are no heroes any more. But when a lone gunman reluctantly accepts the mantle of protector to a young boy and his dying mother against the forces that pursue them, a hero may yet arise.."--Publisher website.

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Time Siege

Wesley Chu · 431 pages

"Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future, one in which Earth is a toxic, sparsley inhabited wasteland- the perfect place for a fugitive ex-chronman to hide from authorities. James has enemies. They include the full military might of a benighted solar system ruled by corporate greed and a desperate fear of what James will do ne

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Out of the Ashes

William W. Johnstone · 480 pages

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Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve · 373 pages

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Hollowland

Amanda Hocking · 321 pages

Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland of America, and nothing will stand in her way--not violent marauders, a spoiled rockstar, or an army of flesh-eating zombies.

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The Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

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The Wasteland Saga: Three Novels

Nick Cole · 661 pages

"Nick Cole sends us on a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of post-apocalyptic America in this three-part adventure. Forty years after a devastating nuclear Armageddon, mankind has been reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. In a style that's part Hemingway and part Cormac McCarthy's The Road, The Wasteland Saga chronicles the struggle of the Old Man, his granddaughter, and a myst

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The Border

Robert McCammon · 441 pages

The Border is the saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations. But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, e

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Blood Red Road

Moira Young

To escape, she will have to fight. To survive, she will have to lead. Saba's world is shattered when her twin brother, Lugh, is captured by four cloaked horsemen. Determined to rescue him, Saba sets off into the lawless, wasted landscape left behind by the Wreckers. It's a brutal world where Saba discovers some surprising things about herself: She's a fierce fighter, a cunning opponent, and above

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Hiero's Journey

Sterling E. Lanier · 280 pages

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World After

Susan Ee · 336 pages

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Dust & Decay

Jonathan Maberry · 519 pages

In post-apocalyptic America, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland.

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Valentine's Rising

E.E. Knight · 360 pages

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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 352 pages

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The Gunslinger

Stephen King · 238 pages

***The Gunslinger is the first book of the Dark Tower series. "Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read." Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, is in relentless pursuit of the man in black through his strange and desolate world that is oddly similar to our own. He enc

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Poison Princess

Kresley Cole · 384 pages

She could save the world—or destroy it. Sixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they’re still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-si

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The Twelve

Justin Cronin · 624 pages

The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the

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Sea of Rust

C. Robert Cargill · 365 pages

"A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been

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Hell Divers

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 399 pages

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers—men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to

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Sky Jumpers

Peggy Eddleman · 288 pages

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Fallocaust

Quil Carter · 827 pages

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Blood Honor

Russell Blake · 250 pages

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