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The Unraveling by Hugh Howey
24 ratingsThere is a legend in their past of an uprising, a war they have learned about, but have learned nothing fromNobody knows what went wrong. Nobody talks about what happened. Such are the silo taboos.Now, nearly two hundred years later, the people of the Silo will get a chance to learn more about that distant uprising.They'll get to start one of their own.. -
Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey
20 ratingsIn July of 2011, a short story named WOOL was quietly released into the vast wilds of the Kindle Store. I never marketed this novelette; I failed to mention it on my website. What happened next was remarkable: People started reading it, and reviewing it, and talking about it.There was never any intention to create a series...Categorized as:
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Zero Hour by Mark Walden
16 ratingsOverlord is reborn, and has developed the chilling ability to move from body to body, erasing the host's personality and ultimately killing them, forcing him to hop from victim to victim. He must find Otto, the only host designed to contain him, and for that he needs the location of H.I.V.E...Categorized as:
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Extinct by R.R. Haywood
18 ratingsThe end of the world has been avoided—for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas…While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn’t make sense...Categorized as:
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The Void by Dirk Patton
8 ratingsIt's been a year since Robert Tracy (Agent Bering), saved from the executioner's needle, foiled the Cabal's plan to assassinate the President and take control of the country. Seizing the opportunity for a new life, he is happy and in love. But a rift in the very fabric of space-time, and an undefeated Cabal, conspire to strip away everything he cares about... -
The Final Trade by Joe Hart
18 ratingsThe thrilling sequel to the runaway bestseller The Last Girl.Zoey is not the woman she once was. She’s watched her friends die at the hands of their captors, been hunted, and returned from the brink of death. Now she must find the truth about who she is...Categorized as:
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The Lost Colony by A.G. Riddle
24 ratingsCan humanity survive on a new world?On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. It's a journey across space and time and into humanity's past and future--with a twist you'll never forget...Categorized as:
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The Risen by Erica Stevens
10 ratings*****This book is the final compilation and the conclusion to an ongoing serial story. This series must be read in order.*****With new challenges and threats arising every day, the survivors struggle to reach their destination in the hopes of finding somewhere safe to stay...Categorized as:
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Axis of Evil by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
10 ratingsThe Axis of Evil had the perfect strategy. Destroy the heartbeat of America. Invade with their million man army. But there was one thing they didn't count on ... Texas...Categorized as:
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Storm's Fury by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus
10 ratingsA young girl who saw her father die. A soldier who lost everything. Now, in the shadow of the apocalypse, they will fight to survive.The skies above America darken as powerful, corrupt forces inadvertently unleash a disaster of biblical proportions.In a quiet southern town, a lonely soldier lives each day in a bottle, forever regretting sins and losses of the past... -
The Song of the Orphans by Daniel Price
12 ratingsAfter their world collapsed in a sheet of white light, everything and everyone were gone—except for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from destruction by three fearsome and powerful beings, the Given sisters found themselves on a strange new Earth where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances...Categorized as:
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The Hunted by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
14 ratingsThe deadly hunt continues in book two of the bestselling Trackers saga...Five days ago North Korea detonated three nuclear warheads over the United States, triggering an electromagnetic pulse that crippled the country. A second attack destroyed the nerve center of America in a nuclear blast that flattened the nation's capitol...Categorized as:
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Surviving the Swamp by Grace Hamilton
6 ratingsSkin of Your Teeth Survival is a reality show made famous for pairing part-time survivalists with a real-life survival situation. Led by world-famous Prepper and Survivalist Wolf Henderson, season ten promises to be different: this time none of the contestants are survivalists—they’ve all been picked to fail...Categorized as:
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Blind Sided by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
6 ratingsAfter four years of life in a post-apocalyptic world, the one thing that both Mike and Sarah know for sure is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life has begun to settle down, a threat comes at them from a totally unexpected source. Not England, nor the US, not rampaging gypsies or even the Middle East... -
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The Gospel According to Artyom by Dmitry Glukhovsky
8 ratingsThe recently created and previously unpublished epilogue of METRO 2033, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky. This bonus piece was never published in English and comes exclusively on Amazon... -
The Price We Pay (Life After War, #7) by Angela White
10 ratingsWill Controlled Chaos Be Enough To Free Them? Angela has moved Safe Haven to the Mountains of Georgia to make their stand. She has put a plan in motion that will free them all or get them all killed. For her, everything since the apocalypse has come down to this moment. It's what she's been training for, what her men have tried to prepare her for, but only fate knows if it will be enough... -
Brace for Impact by Harley Tate
10 ratingsWhat if an EMP was only the first strike? With a credible threat to the United States and a plane stuck on the tarmac, Grant Walton is thirty seconds from full-blown panic mode. He’s the only one in the airport who knows the truth. When the power goes out, he can’t waste another second. It’s the beginning of the end and every man for himself. A nuclear attack will rip the country apart...Categorized as:
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Strung II: The Valley of Death by Per Jacobsen
10 ratingsThirteen months after the events in the first book of the series, Randall Morgan and his family still live a life of uncertainty. A life in which they–like the other scattered groups of survivors–must be constantly on guard.One day, however, they make a macabre discovery that leads them to believe that their pursuers will not pose a threat much longer... -
Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz
11 ratingsTwo hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until a series of murders reveal the reemergence of the Paratwa...Categorized as:
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Ice Country by David Estes
12 ratingsDazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler...Categorized as:
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Destiny by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale
14 ratingsAs the Earth plunges toward Saturn, Jessica struggles to decide whether to save the ones she loves, or save the human race... -
Outbreak by Baileigh Higgins
6 ratingsA survivor is born...The Black Tide. That’s what they called it. We thought we were prepared. How wrong we were...Saddled with the care of her kid sister, Ava struggles to cope with the demands placed upon her young shoulders. When an unstoppable disease sweeps across the globe, decimating the population, her life takes a terrifying turn for the worse...Categorized as:
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This Fallen World by Christopher Woods
6 ratingsThe world has Fallen, but life goes on… Matthew Kade was a corporate assassin—one of the best agents Obsidian Corporation had. But then the bombs began falling, and the old world ended. Now he must navigate the new world he finds himself in, a world where the strongest survive, and the weaker do their bidding…or die...Categorized as:
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Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce
6 ratingsDick, AKA Devil Dog's world changes drastically when the EMP takes out the power grid. The loss of electricity brings out the darker side of human nature across the city. A homeless Marine veteran living in the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago, he's far better prepared than most people. Good folk have survived, but they are often outnumbered and outgunned...Categorized as:
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Tsunami Storm by D.F. Capps, David F. Capps
6 ratings*Bronze medal winner in the 2017 Reader's Favorite Book Awards for fiction - thriller - general. *The US has launched secret weapons of mass destruction on other countries. And awaits what might be cataclysmic retaliation…China is devastated by an 8.0M earthquake that leaves 70,000 people dead with hundreds of thousands injured and untold property destroyed...Categorized as:
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The Shades by Amy Cross
6 ratingsOne late September day, the entire population of the United States vanishes, leaving behind nothing but empty streets. For the rest of the world, there's no explanation for how 300m people could simply vanish in the blink of an eye. While international organizations dither over what to do next, a powerful company pays for a small team of investigators to head to the U.S. and learn the truth... -
Nightfall by Daniel Barnett
6 ratings"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment...Categorized as:
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Pandemia by Johnathan Rand, Christopher Knight
6 ratingsThe world was warned. The last great flu epidemic kelled millions. Now the bird flu has mutated into the super flu and spreading fast. Four teenagers are caught in a world gone wild. They head north... -
The Ark by Christopher Coates
8 ratingsIn the not too distant future, technology has developed to the point where a person can be placed in a Sleep State, which is a cross between suspended animation and a drug induced coma. Theoretically a person can be put to sleep for any length of time and age only a couple of days for each year that they are asleep...Categorized as:
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The Benders by Katie French
8 ratingsThe third book in the award-winning, best-selling dystopian series. They’ve escaped the Breeders. They’ve broken out of the Citadel. Now, after all they’ve been through, Riley, Clay, and Ethan know one thing for sure: nothing tastes sweeter than freedom. And no one can rest easy with Auntie Bell in bondage. The group journeys home to rescue her and liberate Clay’s town from the cruel Warden... -
Final Chaos by Ryan Westfield
8 ratingsWhen society falls, how will you protect those you love?They knew the solar flair was coming, but no one knew the effect it would have. The EMP kills the lights and all electronics. Now it’s only a matter of time before chaos erupts.Jim owns a small electronics repair store in Rochester, NY. Unlike his friend, he quickly realizes the reality of the situation... -
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
8 ratingsFounded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent... -
Resistance by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale
14 ratingsThe fight for the future of humanity begins... Jessica Rollins has made it to safety inside the Sanctuary system with the help of Ufuk Erdogmus, but is her mysterious savior really who he says he is? What secrets does he hide? And how is he connected to Dr. Muller? Jess doesn't have much time to ponder these questions, as soon she is fighting again for her life.. -
Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King
16 ratingsAll hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty... -
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Blood by Francine Pascal
12 ratingsGaia Moore is genetically incapable of feeling fear. Following the death of a friend, for which she holds herself responsible, Gaia is in the grip of depression. She spends her days looking for fear, and it's becoming a death wish...Categorized as:
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Resident Evil: Genesis by Keith R.A. DeCandido
12 ratingsThe Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes.But something has gone fatally wrong... -
State of Panic by Jack Hunt
10 ratings"Fans of Alas Babylon and One Second After will enjoy this terrifyingly real, on the edge-of-your-seat, tale of survival and human courage."A nation in darkness. A community in danger. Everyone in a state of panic.After a U.S anti-missile system in Europe malfunctions and fires upon Germany, a deadly retaliation follows in the United States with a series of coordinated attacks... -
Resistance by Richard Stephenson
10 ratingsBook two in the New America Series.Eighteen months after the Collapse of 2027, the former United States is divided. On one side is the evil and tyrannical Unified American Empire, controlled by President Simon Sterling, the man responsible for the death of the last legitimate president, Malcolm Powers...Categorized as:
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The System by Shelbi Wescott
10 ratingsLucy King’s saga continues as she searches for her family and for the truth in Book Two of the Virulent trilogy.It took one week to demolish the world and obliterate the earth’s population. And it took two weeks to solidify the ties of friendship and build-up a small society of survivors who must rely solely on each other to navigate the future’s unknown terrain...Categorized as:
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Missing by Francine Pascal
10 ratingsNobody knows where I am. Nobody knows how to find me. Nobody knows my real identity.Including me... -
The Last Layover by Steven C. Bird
8 ratingsThe Last Layover is the first book of The New Homefront series where patriotic Americans struggle to survive in a collapsing world while taking a stand against the evil and tyranny that quickly follows. The Last Layover is a fiction novel based on real places and potential scenarios where an out of control government pushes America to the brink of financial and social collapse... -
Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham
8 ratingsKyle Tait, having survived the harrowing, cross-country journey home to his family, must now struggle for existence in a post-EMP world that no one could have imagined just three short months prior. Each day brings new challenges – how to fight the bitter cold, where to scavenge food for the table, how to best fend off intruders and keep their community safe...Categorized as:
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Code Breakers: Delta by Colin F. Barnes
6 ratingsThe fourth and final novel in the Code Breakers series. Gabriel and Petal have tracked Gabe’s mother back to Hong Kong. But to find her Gabe has to face his old gang and the ghosts he thought he had laid to rest years before. While helping him, Petal stumbles on a way of getting Gerry’s mind out of her head, but like Gabe, she too has to return to a place full of ghosts: Libertas...Categorized as:
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Resonance by A.J. Scudiere
6 ratingsThe shift is coming. Soon. Dr. David Carter knows this. However, he’s a geologist, so ‘soon’ means anywhere from tomorrow to a thousand years from now. People are dying. Now. Drs. Jordan Abellard and Jillian Brookwood are standing at the edge of SuperAIDS. Or are they? They won’t be able to figure it out if they can’t get some authorization signed - and soon...Categorized as:
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Sleeper Agenda by Tom Sniegoski
6 ratingsTeenager Tom Lovett suffers from a rare form of narcolepsy that can knock him out for days at a time. At least, this is what his parents and doctors have always told him. But Tom’s about to make a shocking discovery: He’s actually a sleeper assassin. His narcoleptic "fits" are cover for his horrific missions. In fact, his entire life has been a lie...Categorized as:
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Hammer of Angels by G.T. Almasi
6 ratingsIn G. T. Almasi’s thrilling alternate reality, the United States, the USSR, and the Republic of China share a fragile balance of power with Greater Germany, which emerged from World War II in control of Europe and half of the Middle East...Categorized as:
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Corridor by Robin Parrish
6 ratingsTHE ONLY WAY OUT IS TO RUN.On the eve of his seventeenth birthday, Troy Goggin finds himself inexplicably transported to an impossibly huge, miles-long structure called the Corridor. But what is the Corridor, and why was he brought to it?It’s a place of mystery, wonder, and heart-stopping danger. It will test him and push him both mentally and physically...Categorized as:
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The Passion to Survive by Dana L. Elgrod
6 ratingsAdventure, love, passion... What else do you need in life? When Eva gets pulled out of the water and learns that she was rescued from a destructive tsunami wave that demolished the island of Tenerife, her paradise turns into hell...Categorized as:
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Sketches by Teyla Branton
6 ratingsSomeone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth.Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency)...Categorized as:
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Rath's Trial by Piers Platt
6 ratingsRath thought that defeating the Janus Group and stealing back his hard-earned fortune might help ease his guilty conscience. But when he returns to the planet Scapa to find the woman he loves, his past crimes finally catch up to him. And the police aren't Rath's only concern: someone's put a price on his head. Rath will need to figure out who his new enemy is if he wants to stay alive...Categorized as:
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