The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
2015
Books with the “Post-Apocalyptic World” trope
After a global disaster, the survivors build a new life among the ruins of the old world.
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Setting and place · Post-Apocalyptic World
Books with this trope
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2006
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
2014
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
2009
Blindness
José Saramago
1995
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
1954
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
2009
Bird Box
Josh Malerman
2014
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2015
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
1993
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
2003
Wool
Hugh Howey
2011
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
1968
The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey
2013
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
1959
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
1951
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
1955
Earth Abides
George R. Stewart
1949
The Postman
David Brin
1985
The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
2014
Severance
Ling Ma
2018
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