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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...
  • Chaos Rising by Kyla Stone

    Chaos Rising by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    In a heartbeat, everything grinds to a halt... On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Vehicles stop working. Communications break down. Reclusive former soldier Liam Coleman doesn't want to be anywhere near bustling downtown Chicago the day before Christmas. But his twin brother and his pregnant sister-in-law need him, so he makes the trip...
  • 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...
  • Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Something is rotten in the state of California… The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite right...
  • 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...
  • New World by Kate L. Mary

    New World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New World, book five 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 weeks on the road and devastating losses, the survivors have finally found safety. But as winter falls on Colorado, it brings with it both new challenges, and new hope...
  • 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...
  • Hunted by Lisa Harris

    Hunted by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He promised to protect her.But what happens when the hunter becomes the prey?Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO.From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There were a few things that got Owen Quade through his multiple combat tours. One was the dream of riding a custom motorcycle on a winding mountain road. The former Marine had finally managed to complete that goal, and along the way he’d gained his own bike shop and the mechanic to go with it. She was a rare beauty, and he wasn’t talking about his bike either...
  • 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...
  • Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Mason Sykes had served many years in the Marine Corps for his country. His loyalty and sacrifice had left him disfigured—inside and out. He didn’t harbor regrets, especially since he’d finally found the peace and quiet he’d always desired on a Nebraska farm. Brenna Helm was a country girl through and through, right down to her cowgirl boots...
  • 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...
  • Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A new romantic action adventure for fans of romance thriller suspense and family romance series! One of six Italian brothers and a sister, JT Luciano is a widowed environmental biologist with a touch of the Sight who is preparing for an apocalyptic event he knows is coming...
  • Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, brings you the gripping, sensual conclusion to her apocalyptic trilogy. Amber Tate never dreamed their heart-wrenching escape from the enemy’s attack would lead them to the most beautiful place she’s ever seen, marred by one ugly fact; it’s under enemy control...
  • 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...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • Odium III by Claire C. Riley

    Odium III by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this life, nothing is simple...not even DEATH In the third instalment of the Odium series, having distanced herself from Mikey, Nina is on a mission. She's seeking a woman who could be the answer to all their problems...or just another nightmare made reality. Travelling alongside Nova, the two women are faced with countless threats and inexplicable circumstances..
  • 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 9 by Yumi Tamura

    7Seeds, Buku 9 by Yumi Tamura

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    7SEEDS (Seven...
  • Warrior's Reign: A Sci Fi Alien Romance by Emma Alisyn, Sora Stargazer

    Warrior's Reign: A Sci Fi Alien Romance by Emma Alisyn, Sora Stargazer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Redemption. Assassination. A bond forged under fire. Reign is given a second chance to save her career when a royal friend offers her a job on an elite team of personal guards. Determined to prove her worth, she fends off sneaky sabotage by the implacable head of security, Vykhan, who thinks she is dangerous and hot-headed...
  • A Wilderness Within by Emma Castle

    A Wilderness Within by Emma Castle

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    The world he knows and loves is gone… Lincoln Atwood survived the contagion that wiped out the nine tenths of humanity. As the last survivor in a secret government bunker and a Delta Force soldier, he knows that the other survivors are scared, angry and dangerous, just like him. After weeks alone with the mummified bodies of his colleagues, he escapes the bunker...
  • 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...
  • Imperfect Match by Jordan Castillo Price

    Imperfect Match by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A man whose future is assigned - A heart that yearns to be free. Lee Kennedy’s destiny is controlled by the Algorithm. It’s the reason he’s still in college, regardless of his good academic performance. He’s switched his major repeatedly and stalled on his Master’s thesis, but there’s only so much longer he can hold out. Because once he graduates, the Algorithm must be triggered...
  • 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...
  • Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ten years ago, a deadly virus wiped out the majority of the human race, with the exception of an unlucky few with a natural immunity to the plague. Sandy McDermott is one of them, a solitary survivor who has braved the last decade alone. Now, finally, she’s found something she truly cares about. After years of loneliness, she has a new family...
  • Compromised by H.R. Savage

    Compromised by H.R. Savage

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    We left our home in a blaze of fire…Gunner and I clung to the hope that we were leading our group to safety. However, in the unfamiliar mountains we find something we weren't expecting--a hidden group of people…and someone I thought was dead.Creekside Camp offers the promise of new beginnings for our injured and hungry people, and Gunner and I are thrust into a new normal...
  • Elite by Nicola Claire

    Elite by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Have you been a model Citizen today? Selena Carstairs has been raised an Elite. She lives the life of privileged luxury, never wanting for anything. Respected. Admired. Honoured. But life is not what it seems... The island of Wánměi has a strict set of rules. Be a model Citizen and all will be rewarded. Disobey the law and the consequences are dire...
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