Apocalyptic

Apocalyptic is from the word apocalypse, referring to the end of the world.

Apocalyptic fiction focuses on the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or other global catastrophic risk.

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of religious writing centered on visions of the end of time.

Many apocalyptic stories focus on stories that are on the brink of the end of the world of the civilization. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Also called 'Holocaust'

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This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
Dating After the End of the World
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Edge of Valor (Edge of Collapse, #7)
Edge of Survival (Edge of Collapse, #6)
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
59 Minutes
The Light Pirate
How High We Go in the Dark
American Rapture
Defiance of the Fall 2 (Defiance of the Fall, #2)
Defiance of the Fall (Defiance of the Fall, #1)
System Change (System Universe #1)
The Last Bookstore on Earth
Hearing Red
The Road
Station Eleven
The Stand
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Swan Song
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
One Second After (After, #1)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Stand by Stephen  KingWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Post-Apocalyptia
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One Second After by William R. ForstchenSwan Song by Robert McCammonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankOn the Beach by Nevil Shute
Nuclear Apocalypse
70 books — 175 voters
The Stand by Stephen  King1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Adult Dystopian Books
147 books — 248 voters


The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth.
Eric J. Martindale

Victor Gischler
Mortimer had maxed three credit cards stocking the cave with canned goods and medical supplies and tools and everything a man needed to live through the end of the world. There were more than a thousand books along shelves in the driest part of the cave. There used to be several boxes of pornography until Mortimer realized that he'd spent nearly ten days in a row sitting in the cave masturbating. He burned the dirty magazines to keep from doing some terrible whacking injury to himself. ...more
Victor Gischler, Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse

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