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This is a list of post apocalyptic or dystopian fiction that are set right at the point where everything starts to go wrong, or when a tipping point occurs where everything starts sliding into chaos.
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 132,883 ratings
score: 488,
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Dust
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3.82 avg rating — 685 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
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Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 41,046 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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The Strain (The Strain #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 89,857 ratings
score: 184,
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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
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Nancy Kress (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 2,868 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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Swan Song
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4.30 avg rating — 74,949 ratings
score: 172,
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2 people voted
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The Last One
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Alexandra Oliva (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 17,468 ratings
score: 169,
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2 people voted
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The Things That Keep Us Here
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Carla Buckley (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 5,376 ratings
score: 168,
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2 people voted
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The 40 Minute War
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 201 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Gilded Harvest
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Richard Myerscough (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Entangled Earth
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David Lea (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Last Martian Sunset
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Jon Vassa (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Angela's Arm
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Roland Allnach (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Pod
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Stephen Wallenfels (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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3.84 avg rating — 10,952 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Eruption (Supervolcano, #1)
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3.15 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Bangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World
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James Frenkel (Editor)
3.88 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Doomsday (Endworld, #28)
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David Robbins (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Memoirs of a Survivor
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3.58 avg rating — 3,559 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Ghost Country (Travis Chase, #2)
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Patrick Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 6,624 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Night of the Living Trekkies
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Kevin David Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Down to a Sunless Sea
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3.89 avg rating — 971 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Zoo (Zoo, #1)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 48,347 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Doomsday Chronicles
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4.24 avg rating — 174 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Kraken Wakes
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3.76 avg rating — 11,436 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
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Mike Ashley (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 617 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Dead Sea
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Brian Keene (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 5,800 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 10,610 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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The Vanishings: Four Kids Face Earth's Last Days Together (Left Behind: The Kids, #1)
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Jerry B. Jenkins (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,086 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands, #2)
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3.78 avg rating — 1,570 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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How I Live Now
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Meg Rosoff (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 46,893 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Level 7
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3.95 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
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Emmy Laybourne (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 24,748 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The World Jones Made
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3.65 avg rating — 3,951 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The End is Nigh (The Apocalypse Triptych, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 3,387 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Last Light (Restoration, #1)
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Terri Blackstock (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 13,532 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Land (Stranded #1)
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Theresa Shaver (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Noise
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Darin Bradley (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 358 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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Collision Course
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3.42 avg rating — 273 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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In the After (In the After, #1)
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Demitria Lunetta (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 13,632 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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End of Days
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3.86 avg rating — 1,893 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Odd Billy Todd
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N.C. Reed (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 1,817 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Zombie Fallout (Zombie Fallout, #1)
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Mark Tufo (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 12,945 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Flu (Flu, #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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The Wall
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4.02 avg rating — 30,637 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Nightfall (Dark Age Dawning, #1)
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Ellen Connor (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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Jam
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3.71 avg rating — 5,008 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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Green Angel (Green Angel, #1)
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 12,174 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Signal Boost (Off the Grid, #2)
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Alyssa Cole (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 646 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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Hearts of Darkness (Deadglass, #1)
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Kira Brady (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 872 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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Grasshopper Jungle
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3.64 avg rating — 18,854 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 1
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3.74 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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Black Monday
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3.40 avg rating — 539 ratings
score: 65,
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1 person voted
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Winter World (The Long Winter, #1)
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A.G. Riddle (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 35,247 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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The Solar War (The Long Winter, #2)
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A.G. Riddle (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 20,539 ratings
score: 63,
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