Post-apocalyptic
Every post-apocalyptic author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Post-apocalyptic stories begin after the fall, with survivors working out what's left and what comes next. The order is the story here.
Terry Hayes
Terry Hayes is an English-Australian author of thriller novels and a screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, Hayes worked as a...
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Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is an American author of horror and science fiction. Raised in New England, he is a graduate of...
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist and screenwriter who gave a generation its defining coming-of-age story with The Perks of...
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John J. Gobbell
John J. Gobbell writes naval thrillers steeped in the authenticity only a former Navy weapons officer can deliver. He served...
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Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton is a British author who writes high-concept mysteries that twist time, identity, and logic into something entirely new....
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Susan Ee
Susan Ee is an American novelist who writes young adult fantasy and was a lawyer before turning to fiction full-time....
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Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith is an English novelist who writes historical fiction and thrillers. He was born in 1979 to a...
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Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez is an American author of techno-thriller novels, drawing on a lifelong interest in both technology and writing. Before...
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Richard Bard
Richard Bard is an American thriller novelist best known for his Brainrush series, which explores themes of second chances and...
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Derek B. Miller
Derek B. Miller is an American author and international affairs specialist who writes crime fiction. He spent over a decade...
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Natasha Pulley
Natasha Pulley writes historical fiction with a commitment to authenticity that takes her around the world. Born in Cambridge and...
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James Wesley Rawles
James Wesley Rawles is an American author of survivalist fiction and nonfiction. He is also a rancher and the founder...
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Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee is an American novelist who writes thriller novels. During his twenties, Lee sold two screenplays in Los Angeles,...
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J. Todd Scott
J. Todd Scott is an American crime novelist and screenwriter who brings three decades of federal law enforcement experience to...
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Veronica Rossi
Veronica Rossi is an American author who writes young adult dystopian fiction with romance at its heart. Born in Rio...
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Ryan Winfield
Ryan Winfield is an American author who writes the Jane's Melody series and the Park Service trilogy. Growing up, books...
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Jenny Offill
Jenny Offill writes novels that feel like overhearing someone's sharpest, most private thoughts. Raised across multiple states by two private-school...
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Drew Magary
Drew Magary is an American author and columnist who writes both speculative fiction and nonfiction, moving between dystopian novels and...
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C. Robert Cargill
C. Robert Cargill is an American science fiction writer who first reached readers with Dreams and Shadows in 2013, though...
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Michelle Hodkin
Michelle Hodkin is an American author of young adult paranormal romance novels. She studied law, lived in Florida, New York,...
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Rosamund Hodge
Rosamund Hodge writes young adult fantasy novels, often drawing on mythology and fairy tales for inspiration. She grew up in...
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Taylor Stevens
Taylor Stevens is an American thriller novelist who launched her Vanessa Michael Munroe series in 2011 with The Informationist, a...
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Nadine Brandes
Nadine Brandes is an American author of young adult novels who once spent four days as a sea cook for...
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Matt Richtel
Matt Richtel is an American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes mysteries and thrillers. Richtel's reporting for The New...
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Christine Carbo
Christine Carbo is an American crime novelist who writes atmospheric thrillers set in the wild terrain of Montana. At twelve...
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Mario Giordano
Mario Giordano is a German author and screenwriter whose books blend humor with suspense, most notably in his Auntie Poldi...
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David Arnold
David Arnold writes contemporary fiction novels for young readers. Before turning to writing, he worked as a freelance musician and...
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Joan He
Joan He made her debut as a novelist in 2019 with Descendant of the Crane, a YA fantasy that introduced...
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Melissa Grey
Melissa Grey is an American author of young adult fantasy novels. Raised in New York City, she began writing stories...
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Cindy Pon
Cindy Pon is an American author who writes young adult fantasy and thrillers centered on Asian characters and worlds rarely...
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Mary Miller
Mary Miller is an American author known for her novels, including The Last Days of California and Biloxi, and her...
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Laura Pohl
Laura Pohl is a Brazilian author who writes young adult science fiction and fantasy. Born in Germany to Brazilian parents...
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Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder is an American author of fiction whose work arrives with a sharp, satirical edge that cuts through the...
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Dave Bara
Dave Bara is an American author of science fiction novels. He grew up watching the Gemini and Apollo space programs...
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Alechia Dow
Alechia Dow is a young adult and middle grade author who made her debut in 2020 with The Sound of...
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Adrian Phoenix
Adrian Phoenix is an American writer of urban and paranormal fantasy who brings a genuine fascination with the supernatural to...
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Order Of Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an Oscar-nominated writer and director who brings a cinematic grandeur to literature. He is known for directing...
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Wayne Simmons
Wayne Simmons is an Irish author of horror novels whose work has been published internationally. Before releasing his debut novel,...
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Coco Ma
Coco Ma is a Canadian author who writes YA fantasy and made her debut at fifteen with Shadow Frost, published...
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