Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic
These narratives focus on the end of civilization, either through a catastrophic event (apocalyptic) or in the aftermath of such an event (post-apocalyptic).
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
- The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
- The World in Winter by John Christopher
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- 48 by James Herbert
- The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Wool by Hugh Howey
- Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
- Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Domain by James Herbert
- Davy by Edgar Pangborn
- Destroyer of Worlds by Mark Chadbourn
- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
- Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
- The Peripheral by William Gibson
- Pandemonium by Chris Wooding
- MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
- City by Clifford D. Simak
- The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
- Homeward Bound by James Axler
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- Tomb of Time by James Axler
- Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
- Always Forever by Mark Chadbourn
- Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
- Spear by Nicola Griffith
- Dust by Hugh Howey
- Dancing Bears by Fred Saberhagen
- The Psychotechnic League by Murray Leinster
- A Meeting at Corvallis by S. M. Stirling
- Desolation Road by Victor Milan (as Richard Austin)
- Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
- Flesh by Philip Jose Farmer
- A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
- Star Man's Son by Andre Norton
- Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams
- The Night of the Triffids by Simon Clark
- Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling
- The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy
- The Drift by C J Tudor
- The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
- The Rift by Walter Jon Williams
- The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
- Day After Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds
- The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
- The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
- Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
- The City Not Long After by Pat Murphy
- The Protector's War by S. M. Stirling
- Silent City by Sarah Davis-Goff
- The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance
- Engine Summer by John Crowley
- After The Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh
- Exile to Hell by James Axler
- The Postman by David Brin
- City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Shadow World by James Axler
- Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines
- Postsingular by Rudy Rucker
- Hello America by J.G. Ballard
- The White Plague by Frank Herbert
- Voyage from Yesteryear by James P. Hogan
- Vault of the Ages by Poul Anderson
- Cugel's Saga by Jack Vance
- Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad
- Rim of the World by James Axler
- Metronome by Tom Watson
- Hammerfall by C.J. Cherryh
- Destiny Run by James Axler
- The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
- The Silence by Tim Lebbon
- Neutron Solstice by James Axler
- Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas
- Aftermath by Charles Sheffield
- Cold as Ice by Charles Sheffield
- Red Holocaust by James Axler
- The Stone God Awakens by Philip Jose Farmer
- Ice and Fire by James Axler
- Earthworks by Brian Aldiss
- Divine Endurance by Gwyneth Jones
- Black Tide Rising by John Ringo
- Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen
- Pomegranates by Priya Sharma
- Way of the Wolf by James Axler
- In the Rift by Marion Zimmer Bradley with Holly Lisle
- The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
- World's End by Mark Chadbourn
- Pony Soldiers by James Axler