The Way the World Will End

Explore 'The Way the World Will End' with this curated list of apocalyptic and dystopian books. Discover thrilling reads that imagine humanity's final days and ultimate fate.

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Migration of the Kamishi

by Gaddy Bergmann

In the Fifty-First Century, the planet has recovered from a three-thousand-year-old wound -- an asteroid strike. In the middle of the Twenty-First Century, the asteroid …
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Trials of the Warmland

by Gaddy Bergmann

The second book of the Feral World series, a world set in 51st-century America. The last remnants of the Kamishi tribe have reached the Warmland, …
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On the Beach

by Nevil Shute

A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
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I Am Legend

by Richard Matheson

Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every …
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Farnham's Freehold

by Robert A. Heinlein

A nuclear blast sends Hugh Farnham and his family flying two thousand years into the future where humans are forced into slavery as punishment for …
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Aftermath

by Charles Sheffield

An exploding star causes electromagnetic storms which destroy most of the world's computers. The novel traces the effect of this on various people, from patients …
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Into the Forest

by Jean Hegland

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two …
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Lucifer's Hammer

by Larry Niven

“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer The gigantic comet had slammed into …
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The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

For five days, American scientists struggle to identify and control a deadly new form of life.
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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival …
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Apocalypse 2012

by Lawrence E. Joseph

In this provocative work, Joseph reveals the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient …
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The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

The Time Machine, perhaps Wells' best known work, tells the story of the first time traveler. In the distant future the human race has evolved …
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Emergence

by David R. Palmer

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