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There are lots of zombie books, but if you're looking for apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic books that don't have zombies in them, then this is the list for you.
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The Road
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,657,230 ratings
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 269,950 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 601,687 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 48,934 ratings
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The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 493,668 ratings
score: 861,
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The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 634,538 ratings
score: 857,
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 118,036 ratings
score: 790,
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The Children of Men
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3.67 avg rating — 51,728 ratings
score: 764,
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Lucifer's Hammer
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Dust (Silo, #3)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 133,546 ratings
score: 662,
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The Kill Order (The Maze Runner, #4)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 257,913 ratings
score: 661,
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Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
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Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 207,892 ratings
score: 590,
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6 people voted
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 132,934 ratings
score: 574,
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,044,494 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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score: 489,
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 116,382 ratings
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Alas, Babylon
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4.09 avg rating — 48,205 ratings
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Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 32,589 ratings
score: 479,
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The Postman
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 37,204 ratings
score: 470,
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Empty Cradle: The Untimely Death of Corey Sanderson
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Emmy Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 400,
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Earth Abides
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3.94 avg rating — 33,632 ratings
score: 388,
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The Death of Grass
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3.89 avg rating — 10,874 ratings
score: 387,
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Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
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Mike Mullin (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 26,501 ratings
score: 385,
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4 people voted
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The Maze Runner Files
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 15,208 ratings
score: 364,
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Picnic
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Lee Brait (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 300,
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The Wall
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4.02 avg rating — 30,997 ratings
score: 298,
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 132,029 ratings
score: 298,
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Empty Cradle: Shiloh in the Circle (Empty Cradle, #2)
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Emmy Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 297,
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MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 81,882 ratings
score: 295,
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Last Light (Last Light, #1)
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Alex Scarrow (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
score: 292,
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Half Way Home
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 14,892 ratings
score: 292,
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 203,283 ratings
score: 292,
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Second Shift: Order (Shift, #2)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 11,794 ratings
score: 291,
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Third Shift: Pact (Shift, #3)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 10,324 ratings
score: 288,
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The Dog Stars
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3.95 avg rating — 70,958 ratings
score: 287,
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Ashen Winter (Ashfall, #2)
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Mike Mullin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 11,912 ratings
score: 286,
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Shift (Silo, #2)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 149,015 ratings
score: 277,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,370,729 ratings
score: 274,
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In His Image (The Christ Clone Trilogy, #1)
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James BeauSeigneur (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
score: 200,
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Objects of Wrath
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Sean T. Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 200,
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The Dead Room (The Dead Room Trilogy, #1)
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Stephanie Erickson (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
score: 200,
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Out of the Dark
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Claire C. Riley (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 141 ratings
score: 200,
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Swan Song
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4.30 avg rating — 75,061 ratings
score: 200,
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Radio Hope
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Sean McLachlan (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 198,
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Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 96,484 ratings
score: 198,
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The Things That Keep Us Here
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Carla Buckley (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 5,377 ratings
score: 195,
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A Different Alchemy (The Great De-evolution)
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Chris Dietzel (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 380 ratings
score: 193,
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Sunrise (Ashfall, #3)
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Mike Mullin (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 7,259 ratings
score: 190,
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Blindness
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4.18 avg rating — 331,680 ratings
score: 189,
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Orbs (Orbs, #1)
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Nicholas Sansbury Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 4,019 ratings
score: 189,
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First Shift: Legacy (Shift, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 18,044 ratings
score: 188,
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The Hauntings of Playing God (The Great De-evolution)
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Chris Dietzel (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 403 ratings
score: 188,
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The Zona
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Nathan L. Yocum (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 264 ratings
score: 188,
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The Old Man and the Wasteland (The Wasteland Saga, #1)
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Nick Cole (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,521 ratings
score: 188,
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A Wrinkle in the Skin
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3.87 avg rating — 825 ratings
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The Birth of a Phoenix (Phoenix Chronicles #1)
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4.56 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Star Dwellers (The Dwellers, #2)
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David Estes (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
score: 100,
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Out of the Mouth of the Dragon
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Death's Twilight (Meechan Chronicles # 1)
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A.J. Leavens (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Ark
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Annabel Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Marian (The Marian #1)
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Taylor Hohulin (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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They Who Fell (They Who Fell, #1)
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Kevin Kneupper (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,653 ratings
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Fight for Power (The Rule of Three, #2)
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Tomorrow is Gone
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Huw Millward (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Iris
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Norman Crane (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Billy and the Cloneasaurus
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Stephen Kozeniewski (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Apocalypse Script (The Nisirtu #1)
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Samuel Fort (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Indexed: The end of social media
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Wim Verveen (Goodreads Author)
2.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Fourth Generation
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Chris von Halle (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Under Dark Sky Law
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Tamara Boyens (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Yesterday's Tomorrow
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G.W. Pomichter (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Supergod
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Pride and Post Apocalypse: A regency dystopian
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Lauren M. Flauding (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Darkness Begins (After the EMP Saga #1; After the EMP: Darkness #1)
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Stratification
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Ilsa Evans (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Burn (Earth 6.0 Trilogy #1)
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Helen Hyland (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Shadow City (Tales of the Shadow City #1)
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Anna Mocikat (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 237 ratings
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All the Empty Houses
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Alexander Fedderly (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Last One at the Party
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Driftwood
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Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 995 ratings
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Angela's Arm
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Roland Allnach (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Moon Dwellers (The Dwellers, #1)
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David Estes (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 4,427 ratings
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Lords of the Starship
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3.47 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
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Birth Of An Age (The Christ Clone Trilogy, #2)
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James BeauSeigneur (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 787 ratings
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Pulse (Pulse, #1)
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Patrick Carman (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 5,523 ratings
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Reunion
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Ken Lizzi (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Rule of Three (The Rule of Three, #1)
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The Dead Lands
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Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 3,945 ratings
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Flood (Flood, #1)
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The Omega Project
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Mad Max
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Terry Kaye (Pseudonym)
3.48 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Land (Stranded #1)
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Theresa Shaver (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,824 ratings
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The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Krishna wrote: "question, I was reading a book a while back where all power had gone out and even when firing weapons, the gunpowder did not work anymore.I was wondering if anyone has heard of that book and what ..."
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I was wondering if anyone has heard of that book and what it's called again.