3.71 avg rating — 10,028 ratings

""The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, loot and trample for lentil 'steaks' and are controlled by sinister barbed wire dropped from the sky.""

4.19 avg rating — 289,691 ratings

""...set in a near-future California (starting in 2024) ravaged by climate change, social inequality, and economic collapse, following a young woman named Lauren Olamina as she develops a new religion called Earthseed.""

4.20 avg rating — 5,693,839 ratings

""...who secretly rebels against the omnipresent "Big Brother" through forbidden love and a quest for individuality, ultimately leading to his capture, torture, and psychological destruction.""

3.89 avg rating — 11,559 ratings

""...a virus that wipes out all grasses, leading to global famine and societal collapse. The story follows the Custance family as they flee London for a remote farm, witnessing the rapid descent into barbarism as civilization breaks down... ""

3.95 avg rating — 5,016 ratings

""Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world—her music, her purpose—is closed off forever.""

3.52 avg rating — 1,253 ratings

""The end of man was not signaled by marauding gangs or explosions, but with silence. People simply grew older knowing a younger generation would not be there to replace them.""

3.67 avg rating — 5,894 ratings

""America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse—the stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point.""

3.77 avg rating — 32,350 ratings

""...a violent pandemic of rage turns everyday citizens into homicidal maniacs. The story follows the Colclough family... desperately trying to survive mobs and reach safety after their names are broadcast on a kill list.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,076,870 ratings

""...an unnamed father and son journeying through a desolate, ash-covered America after an unspecified cataclysm. The story focuses on their struggle for survival against starvation, extreme cold, and violent, cannibalistic survivors...""

3.39 avg rating — 14,467 ratings

""In a contaminated Japan, centenarian Yoshiro cares for his frail great-grandson Mumei, as a covert group seeks a cure to save the nation's dying children...""

3.96 avg rating — 2,076 ratings

""...the world's oil supply is cut off, causing civilization to collapse into chaos.""

3.93 avg rating — 46,094 ratings

""...a climate-ravaged future sees Indigenous people hunted for their bone marrow, which holds the key to the lost ability to dream, a power the rest of humanity desperately needs.""

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings

""Set in a dystopian mid-21st century, it follows a resistance movement fighting against a fascist, corporate-controlled New World Order that rises from the chaos of a new World War...""

2.83 avg rating — 12 ratings

""When the H-bombs struck America, they wiped out not only the cities but law and order and inhibitions. The few who survived were faced with a fierce fight for SURVIVAL... And for too many others, survival meant the beginning of an open season on plunder, murder, and assault – as civilization had ceased to exist!""

4.26 avg rating — 329,428 ratings

""...set in an England which has survived through a nuclear war which devastated the majority of the rest of the world.""

3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings

""A holocaust known as the Great Contamination forced the remnants of humanity into the City of Domes. A hundred years later in the year 2080, having grown sick of the regimented and stifling society inside the city, a woman named Axa flees into the untamed wilderness.""

3.61 avg rating — 30,168 ratings

""...a young Ojibwe woman, Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who is pregnant in a near-future America where evolution is reversing, causing women to give birth to primitive-looking babies... society collapses and the government begins rounding up pregnant women...""

3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings

""We see society on the brink of collapse due to civil wars, mass starvation, and climate degradation. The story features... this whole crew of people gives us pieces to solve this mystery of how society as we know it fell apart.""

3.56 avg rating — 40,241 ratings

""This novel includes similar themes, as well as deforestation, the gross mistreatment of migrants and climate refugees, poverty and class disparity, insufficient public infrastructure, and gentrification, along with various resistance movements in India...""

3.81 avg rating — 4,910 ratings

"Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace—sheriff and perhaps last citizen—patrols a city's ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair. Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere... What Makepeace finds is a world unraveling... hidden work camps laboring to harness the little-understood technologies of a vanished civilization.""

3.81 avg rating — 47,551 ratings

""A mysterious event cuts off a remote community. As winter sets in, the community faces starvation and internal strife, while outsiders arrive seeking refuge, leading to a power struggle.""

3.94 avg rating — 558,975 ratings

""...the core story is of a complicated love triangle. But... the backdrop is full of socio-political corruption, environmental destruction, morally-corrupt politicians, and self-interested businessmen who extract without limits. In the end, deforestation and out-of-control hunting results in the previously lush environment stripped back to nothing.""

3.76 avg rating — 10,747 ratings

""Inertia;" "People who have survived a disfiguring epidemic are living peaceably in compounds walled-off from the rest of America that suffers increasing levels of violence. A doctor sneaks in to research why.""

3.50 avg rating — 213 ratings

""... investigation leads to a mysterious job offer in a newly-formed government department, and here the truth of the oncoming catastrophe is revealed. The country is rife with uncertainty and distrust - then the water levels start to drop.""

3.71 avg rating — 519 ratings

""...each of these ten stories is a reflection of individual choice in the face of man-made apocalypse...""

3.75 avg rating — 79,013 ratings

""Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.""

3.69 avg rating — 7,648 ratings

""...When Earth ran dry of oil, the age of the automobile came to an end; electricity flickered out. With deprivation came desperation—and desperation drove humanity backward to a state of existence few could have imagined.""

3.81 avg rating — 822 ratings

""...a reclusive billionaire, Steven Glass, who builds an underground sanctuary to survive the apocalypse, only to be discovered by two children who try to stop him from destroying the world.""

3.91 avg rating — 43,120 ratings

""The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean, in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity—or whatever remains of it.""

4.09 avg rating — 14,616 ratings

""...adventure following mercenary troubleshooters Gonzo Lubitsch and his best friend as they fight monsters, ninjas, and pirates to save the world from a fire on the Jorgmund Pipe, a vital structure that keeps the wasteland at bay.""

3.73 avg rating — 2,784 ratings

""Set in a future where humanity has spread across the stars, it follows the journey of a diverse cast of characters as they navigate political intrigue, interstellar conflicts, and the mysteries of ancient alien civilization...""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings

""What happens when the world is ending, but society wants to move on and ignore it? Apocalypse Still explores the fears, rage, and hopes of Black women and girls who must address the defeating circumstances of their apocalyptic worlds.""

3.92 avg rating — 66,391 ratings

""...something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up. Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?""

3.82 avg rating — 137,243 ratings

""Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine.""

4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings

"Under the shimmering Grid drawn by the swarm satellites encircling the planet, with fading memories of an apocalyptic California, the Australian outback, and the jungles of Mexico, their obsessions form strange patterns, dangerous relationships, and alliances across time and species." "Rather than a singular explosive event, California's fate is a surreal, environmental, and societal unraveling...""

3.86 avg rating — 130,773 ratings

""...a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over there lives, an “airborne toxic event” that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys—the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constitute the music of American magic and dread.""

3.96 avg rating — 1,048 ratings

""A cutting-edge cancer research facility becomes the epicenter of a zombie apocalypse after a human trial is sabotaged, leading to a catastrophic outbreak...""

3.80 avg rating — 25,662 ratings

""...follows a New York City family's struggle for survival during a massive, simultaneous cyberattack and blizzard that cripples the city's power and communications.""

4.12 avg rating — 2,661 ratings

""...while the end of the world happens, it is also a dance of renewal. The anthology operates on the foundational truth that Indigenous people have already survived multiple apocalypses (such as colonization and residential schools)...""

3.68 avg rating — 154,784 ratings

""Rather than featuring a sudden cataclysm like a nuclear war or zombie outbreak, it portrays a quiet, creeping apocalypse where a society's history, language, and reality gradually fade into nothingness.""

3.69 avg rating — 3,721 ratings

""After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around him, heads west on foot toward Beatrix, a woman he met and fell hard for during a chance visit to his school.""

3.91 avg rating — 62,418 ratings

""...in a desolate, harsh wasteland called the Dust Lands...humanity is struggling to survive in the ruins of a past, destroyed civilization..." "Because traditional structures, laws, and technology are long gone, society has regressed to a lawless and feudal state...""

3.93 avg rating — 42,582 ratings

""...takes place in a far-future, post-climate-apocalypse wasteland. Humanity is dying out, the natural world has been decimated, and an all-powerful biotech corporation (known only as "the Company") churns out twisted, grotesque monstrosities that further corrupt the environment.""

3.14 avg rating — 173,192 ratings

""These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter. But with the TV and internet down, and no phone service, the facts are unknowable.""

3.99 avg rating — 2,351 ratings

""Earth, long after a major catastrophe ("The Storm") has ended a technologically advanced civilization, leaving behind mysterious ruins and altered human societies." "...the result of scientific hubris, possibly involving extreme technological warfare or toxic, world-altering radiation waves.""

3.87 avg rating — 90,814 ratings

""Triggered by a global economic collapse and a highly contagious microbe, the disaster renders all humans worldwide infertile, driving the species into a peaceful, biological extinction.""

4.16 avg rating — 279 ratings

""...the apocalypse is a global ecological collapse known as "The Death of the Seas". Caused by corporate greed and uncontrolled pollution, this mass extinction event suffocated over 93% of living creatures, leaving the surface world a desolate, slime-covered wasteland with poor air quality.""

3.39 avg rating — 3,328 ratings

""...set in an overgrown, ruined city on Earth long after humanity's collapse. It follows Aria, a lone survivor who lives in abandoned subway cars alongside her pet cat, Jelly Beans, as she searches for an ancient, high-powered relic to complete her mission.""

3.69 avg rating — 4,325 ratings

"Post-apocalyptic romance. Huh."

3.88 avg rating — 466 ratings

""...depicts a postcataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing home—all of them apparently immortal—resolves to create an avenging grandson fashioned of lint and rags.""

3.90 avg rating — 303,300 ratings

""Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city...""

3.69 avg rating — 6,679 ratings

""On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction.""

3.98 avg rating — 28,428 ratings

""After encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, he eventually lands to find an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, a crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society.""

3.91 avg rating — 5,850 ratings

""...prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of Earth. In this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and everyone seems to suffer from some form of ailment.""

3.19 avg rating — 5,266 ratings

""Vera and her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country that has collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Water is hoarded by governments, rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky.""

3.71 avg rating — 665 ratings

""This near-apocalypse forced the survivors into the Clawback—a brutal era of rationing, forced cooperation, and global reconstruction.""

4.26 avg rating — 1,348 ratings

""On a quiet evening like any other, virtually anything that uses fuel goes up in flames, killing billions in the first twenty-four hours alone. Remnants of governments reel as they try to deal with the destruction of their countries and decimation of their military infrastructure as their cities burn to the ground.""

3.85 avg rating — 2,415 ratings

""...the apocalypse in Carpenter’s Gothic is entirely man-made." "...frames modern American culture as an apocalyptic landscape driven by willful ignorance, religious fundamentalism, and unchecked capitalism...""

3.66 avg rating — 14,677 ratings

""...two young women, Inesa and Melinoë, caught in a deadly, livestreamed assassination game called the "Lamb's Gauntlet," orchestrated by a powerful corporation that controls society through debt...""