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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBrother in the Land
Robert Swindells · 160 pages
Warday
Whitley Strieber, James W. Kunetka · 447 pages
Riveting account of a limited nuclear war between the US and the USSR and what came after.
One Second After
William R. Forstchen · 352 pages
*New York Times* best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages... A war based upon a weapon, an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the
Down to a Sunless Sea
David Graham
Review:This book was published in 1981 so is a little dated but well worth reading and very frightening. A post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 362 pages
Mary Shelley, the author of [*Frankenstein*][1], wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826. Its first person narrative tells the story of our world standing at the end of the twenty-first century and - after the devastating effects of a plague - at the end of humanity. In the book Shelley writes of weaving this story from a discovery of prophetic writings uncovered in a cave near Naples. Th
Z for Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien · 240 pages
A girl named ann thought she was the only one left after the war, but that becomes a mystery because she found some one!
Level 7
Mordecai Roshwald · 189 pages
A chillingly calm first person account of Armageddon, from the point of view of a low-level military functionary. This account should make you think, and should terrify you.
Domain
James Herbert · 412 pages
Man versus rat—the balance of power has shifted The long-dreaded nuclear conflict has come. The city is torn apart and its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets—if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that
To Sail a Darkling Sea
John Ringo · 374 pages
Book 2 of the Dark Tide Rising series. This is the continuing story of rebuilding the US military (mainly Navy/Marines/Coast Guard) after the release of a bio-weapon turns people into "zombies". They are not zombies, though. They are dangerous, infected people with damaged minds who have turned animal. The main characters are Faith "Shewolf" Smith, a 13 year old girl who is provisionally grante
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
Half Past Midnight
Jeff Brackett · 336 pages
The Purple Cloud
M.P. Shiel · 236 pages
Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early "last man" science fiction novel. Foretold by a priest as being against the will of God, Adam Jeffson's Arctic expedition unleashes a terrible fate on the world - a mysterious purple cloud that spreads far into the heavens and across the earth. Jeffson returns to the horror of finding the entire crew dead onboard his ship, and, as he gr
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr. · 320 pages
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As the story opens to a world run on a basically fuedal lines, science is again beco
Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank · 295 pages
A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.
The Kill Order
James Dashner · 384 pages
Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth, killing most of the population. Mark and Trina were there when it happened. They survived. But now a virus is spreading. A virus that fills humans with murderous rage. They’re convinced that there’s a way to save those who are left—if they can stay alive. Because in this new, devas
Ashes
Ilsa J. Bick · 480 pages
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
Children of the Dust
Louise Lawrence · 176 pages
Farnham's Freehold
Robert A. Heinlein · 304 pages
Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.