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  • Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

    Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks...
  • The Light We Lost by Kyla Stone

    The Light We Lost by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The sun gives life. It is also capable of profound destruction.With little warning, a solar super flare erupts from the sun. A billion tons of superheated plasma hurtles through space toward Earth…When all lights fail, who will save you?Thirteen-year-old Shiloh wakes with a dead body beside her, her brother missing, and no memory of what happened...
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  • The Dark We Seek by Kyla Stone

    The Dark We Seek by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Darkness spreads across the globe...After explosive solar flares strike Earth, half the planet goes dark. Store shelves gather dust, pharmacies run out of life-saving medications, and banks and gas stations shut their doors.As tens of millions of people grapple with a new reality without power, a serial killer hunts in the chaos...
  • Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    If you need some zombies killed, who do you call? The Lucky Thirteen. A few weeks have passed since the events in Aurora, and Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The odd mall to raid, cattle to herd, provisions to deliver—all no match for our trusty group of scavengers. The world is yours for the taking when killing zombies becomes routine...
  • The World We Burn by Kyla Stone

    The World We Burn by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the world burns, the only thing that matters is family. In the gripping finale to the Lost Light survival series, the remnants of humanity cling to survival after a cataclysmic solar flare. With half the planet shrouded in darkness, the enclave of survivors of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have endured violence, starvation, and lawlessness...
  • Forgotten World by Kate L. Mary

    Forgotten World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Forgotten World, book six in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After the longest winter of her life, Vivian is thrilled to have Ginny back at her side...
  • Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Not so lucky anymore… Civilization is on the brink of crumbling—and this time not just due to the zombie apocalypse. The roads have become dangerous, and what havens have been established are no longer safe. Murmurs of unrest—or maybe even a brewing civil war—are getting loud. No longer are zombies the only thing preying on those that think to brave the world outside the settlements...
  • Lost World by Kate L. Mary

    Lost World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lost World, the fourth book in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has destroyed the world and the dead have come back to claim it as their own... With their shelter destroyed and their sense of security shattered, Vivian, Axl and the group set off in search of a safe place...
  • Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...
  • The Hope We Keep by Kyla Stone

    The Hope We Keep by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Only in darkness can you see the stars...Don't miss the stunning conclusion to the Lost Light trilogy!When massive solar flares strike the planet, a million tons of superheated plasma rips through the Earth’s atmosphere. As power grids fail across the Northern Hemisphere, the entire world balances on the brink of chaos...
  • Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book two of The City Series is here! Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead. Add in the less-than-sociable new neighbors only blocks away, and the hunt for sustenance has come to feel more like a race than a ramble...
  • The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series! A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead. Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. It’s been six months since Reagan Willow fled the Colony and Matthias Allen’s tyrannical clutches. Six months since she broke Hendrix Parker’s heart. Six months since she watched Kane Allen sacrifice his life to save hers...
  • Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and Page are still trapped with Kane in the cabin in the woods and they have no idea if help is coming or if anyone will be able to find them. Besides the utter boredom and eerie solitude, they have to deal with Kane’s crazy mom and the danger Kane poses to Reagan, in more than just the physical sense...
  • Vindicta by A.L. Masters

    Vindicta by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nashville is falling.Herds are forming.Humanity is facing extinction.They might be the last chance at salvation the city has left.Kate, Storm, and the rest of the Special Forces detachment head to Nashville to bolster the city’s final defense, but when they arrive they find that things haven’t gone according to plan...
  • Silent World by Kate L. Mary

    Silent World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book Seven in the Broken World Series... When Jim ran out of that farmhouse in Forgotten World, not only did he leave the promise of safety behind, but he was sure he was about to meet a horrible end. Amira has lived most of her life surrounded by silence, and this new world has dangers lurking around every corner that could mean the end for her...
  • The Eve by Keary Taylor

    The Eve by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality...
  • Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After making it through winter, Rowan, Devon, and Kiaya have settled into a routine and are looking forward to creating a future full of hope, new relationships, and even a brand new life. Too bad it’s impossible to escape trouble completely during a zombie apocalypse...
  • Angus: A Broken World Novel by Kate L. Mary

    Angus: A Broken World Novel by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BrotherAssholeSurvivorSaviorPrisonerGodAngus James has played many roles in his life, but none have prepared him for the one he now finds himself in. Alone for too long, traveling the wastelands of what was once the United States, he’s all but given up hope of ever seeing another living person.Then he finds her...
  • The Replication by A.L. Masters

    The Replication by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can they stay sane in an insane world? Do they even want to?JaredThey made it out of the rubble alive. Mostly. The survivors had lost everything in the disaster. All of it destroyed in one horrific blink of an eye. They were going to have to regroup somewhere and heal, gather more supplies. Cheyenne Mountain, and the answers it would hopefully bring, could wait a little longer...
  • The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The survivors, with an unexpected last-minute change to their travel plans, move toward Fort Carson, Colorado in search of answers. It is a thousand-mile journey that provides unforeseen opportunities, unexpected losses, and tangled alliances. They must find the strength to endure the worst that the startling new world has to offer and to survive with their humanity—and lives—intact...
  • Far from Lost by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Lost by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How far would you go to save what you thought you’d lost during the apocalypse?After learning her father is alive, going with Heath had seemed like a no-brainer to Rowan. Her dad was all she had left, after all. The only remaining piece of the life she’d loved so much...
  • Shattered by Lisa Harris

    Shattered by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO.From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic new series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again.In the prequel to the series, The Last Day, Chase said good-bye to Hope and left Shadow Ridge for an overnight prisoner transport to San Angelo. . .the day before the grid went down...
  • Far from Home by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Home by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Now a COMPLETE series!How far would you go to survive the apocalypse?As the only child in an upper-middle class family, Rowan has had it easy. Doted on by a mother who never wanted anything but a child to love, she's never wanted for anything. Kiaya’s life, however, has been anything but easy...
  • The Passengers by John Marrs

    The Passengers by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide. When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course...
  • The Turning by A.L. Masters

    The Turning by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When humanity is threatened by an explosion at a Russian research laboratory, co-workers and friends in a small southern town must band together for survival. They realize too late that this is no ordinary plague...and that the enemy they have to fight may not be the only thing they need to worry about.Book One of The Salvation Plague series...
  • Gray: Part III by Lou Cadle

    Gray: Part III by Lou Cadle

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Idaho CityThe sign was metal, the words still visible through scorching that had happened during The Event's long fire.The words spoke of the old days, seven months ago, when civilization was intact and the world robustly populated. The sign looked normal--or would have, had it not been for the pair of human feet attached over the first two words...
  • Far from Safe by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Safe by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After traveling the country in hopes of reaching the safety of home, Rowan finds herself in a world turned upside down. Her parents are gone, and she’s surrounded by people she barely knows, and the only refuge she’s ever known is anything but safe...
  • Deception by Lisa Harris

    Deception by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s been over a year since Sam McQuaid has been back home to Shadow Ridge, and this time, he’s returning with a bounty on his head.Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO.From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic new series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again...
  • Far from Over by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Over by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After barely escaping Heath with their lives, Rowan, Kiaya, and Devon are thrilled to have a safe place to live as winter sets in. With plenty of supplies, a group that works together well, and the security of their new home, things are looking up. Even better? The freezing temperatures might have taken care of the zombies once and for all...
  • Far from Done by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Done by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than a year has passed since a deadly virus swept the globe, killing almost everyone and turning them into monsters. Rowan, Devon, and Kiaya have lost, loved, and worked hard to build lives out of the shattered pieces of the former world, and they’re determined to do whatever it takes to make sure nothing destroys what they’ve built.But the threat is still out there...
  • Survival by Rita Potter

    Survival by Rita Potter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Forty-eight hours after the Upheaval, reality is beginning to set in at the Whitaker Estate. The world, As We Know It, has ended.Dillon Mitchell and her friends are left to survive, after discovering most of the population, at least in the United States, has mysteriously died...
  • Odium II by Claire C. Riley

    Odium II by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fortune favors…the DEAD! Some secrets are too horrific to ever be forgiven, and some people should never be trusted. Tortured, starved, and on the run, Nina thinks she’s faced the worst that mankind has to offer, but she’s wrong. She may have survived this long, but she hasn’t come out of it unscathed, and there’s worse to come...
  • Odium IV: The Dead Saga by Claire C. Riley

    Odium IV: The Dead Saga by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dead Aren’t the only thing to fear… A kid, an old lady, and a heartbroken man…what could possibly go wrong? Mikey is holding true to his promise to Nina, and is doing everything he can to keep the group alive. But when something attacks the threesome in the middle of the night, things begin to take a turn for the worst. Luckily a new group—the N.E.O...
  • 7Seeds, Buku 7 by Yumi Tamura

    7Seeds, Buku 7 by Yumi Tamura

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • 7Seeds, Buku 9 by Yumi Tamura

    7Seeds, Buku 9 by Yumi Tamura

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    7SEEDS (Seven...
  • Crowded, Vol. 2: Glitter Dystopia by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein

    Crowded, Vol. 2: Glitter Dystopia by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eleven minutes into the future, Charlie Ellison is the subject of a million dollar crowdfunded REAPR campaign on her head. Low-rated DFEND bodyguard Vita is keeping her safe for 30 days from a desperate population looking to get rich quick with a gun and a dream...
  • Gantz/16 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/16 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    It’s hard to tell who the heroes and villains are in Gantz these days. Some members of the alien-hunting team are trying to kill protagonist Kei’s girlfriend, and it’s possible he might not be able to stop them! Plus, Kei finds out about a very powerful secret related to his achieving the one--hundred--point goal...
  • Gray: Part II by Lou Cadle

    Gray: Part II by Lou Cadle

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A dense black cloud boiled up in the southeastern sky. It rose high and fast, like a time-lapse movie of the birth of a thunderhead. But it was no rain cloud. Wholly black, it reached up and up until it loomed over her, blocking out the sun. Somehow, she knew, it was Death coming for her. Three months have passed since the mysterious event transformed life on Earth...
  • ARV-3 by Cameo Renae

    ARV-3 by Cameo Renae

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The beginning of the end. The Apocalypse. A nuclear fallout wiped out every living thing on the planet, except for a few thousand of us who took shelter in underground bunkers across the globe. Now, after thirteen long years, we were finally able to return to the topside to begin to rebuild. We thought we were alone. We were never more wrong...
  • In the End by Tracey Ward

    In the End by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Jordan and Alissa made it out of Portland, away from ground zero where The Fever still rages on. But they couldn't beat the quarantine. Now barriers are being built and the remaining survivors of the outbreak are trapped. And the undead just keep coming. The wave of infected is building as city after city is devoured...
  • Justice by Gillian Zane

    Justice by Gillian Zane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There is unfinished business for the S-Island survivors and it centers around Lakeview. The New Orleans' neighborhood has been taken over by a sadistic group of bikers called the Southern Clan. Hannah Klink, who everyone calls Baby no matter how many times she punches them, is training her fellow survivors to defend themselves and work as a unit...
  • Palpitations by S.K. Munt

    Palpitations by S.K. Munt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Good girls don't smoke Good girls get their injections Good girls are excited on the eve of their wedding. Good girls die in the first five minutes of the zombie apocalypse Charlotte's naughty streak is either going to pay off, or get her devoured. And there are worse things going bump in the night than the red-eyes. A hostage. A viral outbreak...
  • Crowded, Vol. 3: Cutting-Edge Desolation by Christopher Sebela, Triona Farrell

    Crowded, Vol. 3: Cutting-Edge Desolation by Christopher Sebela, Triona Farrell

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Fired and ditched by Charlie, Vita sets off in hot pursuit of her former client and some answers. But Charlie’s not alone. She’s hired a brand new bodyguard, Circe, unaware she’s a killer who has been stalking Charlie since her crowdfunded assassination campaign began...
  • Gantz 12 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz 12 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Dinosaurs, terrorism, and blood-Gantz doesn't let up one bit as it climbs into its second "season" of cryptic, frenetic, sexy, and violent storytelling. This time, there's a guy who's a fanatic about the Gantz phenomenon, to the point where he tries to get himself inserted into the alien-hunting game. The question is: will he succeed? The only way to be part of the Gantz universe is to die first...
  • Crowded, Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein

    Crowded, Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ten minutes in the future, the world runs on an economy of job shares and apps, while crowdfunding has evolved into Reapr: a platform for assassination that's trickled down from politicians, celebrities and CEOs to everyday life and all its petty resentments. A world where anyone with enough backers and the money they contribute can kill anyone else...
  • Gantz/28 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/28 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    With America in ruins and Gantz teams the world over slaughtered, an armada of war machines the size of skyscrapers rains down on Japan and begins the systematic extermination of the population...
  • The Raid by Keary Taylor

    The Raid by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cities have become the most dangerous places on Earth, infested with thousands of Bane, and people must now survive in the mountains and wilderness. But ammunition and medicine are essential to survival and they don’t grow on trees. Eve, as an elite defender of Eden, must go on a raid with a small team into the city for supplies that will keep their people alive...
  • Gantz/26 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/26 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The shape-shifting 100-point alien boss has finally been destroyed—along with much of Osaka—and Kei Kurono is back on the team, resurrected after his second death...
  • Gantz/29 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/29 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    As the aliens' merciless war machine continues its systematic slaughter of humanity, Gantz teams from across Japan are assembled against their will for a desperate assault, a strike at the heart of the invaders' mother ship...
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