Apocalyptic Women Fiction

★★★★★ "The most engaging post apocalyptic/dystopian thriller I've ever read!" ★★★★★ "Holy Cow!" No Power. No Telephone. No internet. No T.V. No Transport. Nothing. What will you do when the world as we know it stops? For Kate Wolfe, the answer is simple - whatever it takes to protect her family. For Bob Jackson and his militia, it's the day they've been planning for. The day they take control. When the two collide, as the city of Boise falls to ruin, nobody can predict how things will end. ★★★★★ "I put Murray in the same class as Brad Thor, James Rollins, David...

This apocalyptic book contains three separate stories, including a volcano disaster thriller, a tsunami story, and a tornado disaster thriller that takes place in a dystopian setting.

I was asleep when the world burned. Zain Stone is a rising star at tech giant Thanatos Industries, developing the technology to stop death. But when the building comes under attack, he risks life and limb to protect his research. When he wakes in a cryo chamber, twenty years into the future, everything has changed. The world, which once valued technology so much, has come to despise it. And the girl who woke him up–the beautiful Amy, with strawberry blonde hair and a sweet disposition–might be a cyborg he designed himself. Soon, Zain finds that it’s not just that he needs to survive ...

Riley and Will are motorcycle buddies on a mission to rescue Riley's nephew, who's been kidnapped by his father. When a solar flare throws them all together, there's going to be problems.

She lived before history. He’s yet to be born. Their destiny was forged in battle. Their love, written in the stars. Journey 24,000 years into the dawn of humanity—a prehistoric world of lost tribes and star-born gods. When a falling star shatters her world, Kaya—a warrior fighting to save her tribe—meets Ethan, a young man from a dying future. What begins as a fight for survival becomes an impossible romance that spans all of human history. A fearless heroine. A love that defies fate. An epic time-travel fantasy that begins Beneath a Fractured Sky. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “...

Johnny gets stuck in a 10 day quarantine with his neighbor Lily, making life even harder than usual for both of them. They get along well, and he'd much rather have company over ten days of isolation. There's no explanation for why they have to stay inside, and they can't keep their power on for long enough to listen to the news. In the morning, Lily sleeps in. He goes to her bedroom to check on her around noon, and finds her in a rabid state, staring back at him with hungry eyes. He hasn't been with a woman in a long time, and it's obvious she's desperately in need. Primal desires involves...

A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe. Strap in for a gripping murder...

A deadly world. A fragile bond. A promise that might cost everything. Kenshiro never asked for a companion especially not one like Elliott, a quirky teen with a strange gift and a mountain of trauma. But in the ruins of La Veta, Colorado, a dead woman’s note changed everything. Now, Kenshiro has made it his mission to keep Elliott alive. And it’s getting harder by the day. Wounded, exhausted, and reeling from an encounter that nearly ended them, Kenshiro begins to doubt his ability to protect the boy he never meant to care for. As the safety of their new life crumbles, they’re forced ...

Shane Riley lost everything when the solar flare hit. Stranded in Bureau County, Illinois, he and his best friend, Will Mead, were lucky to find Allison's little community. Accepted into the group when they needed help, they were able to return the favor and provide what the group needed. Now he stands to gain more than he ever had. Will he find what he is looking for or will a serial killer stand in his way?

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirls following their tour turn into something monstrous. After their parents remarry, two step-sisters, one a girl and one a wolf, develop a dangerously close bond.

Brave Enough to Run Hannah Starr finds herself in the same demise as Rylee Cooper when the Universal Army searches for her, hunting her down like a criminal, when the only thing she did was to refuse to accept the government's ruling. Is this how Rylee, her friend who disappeared months ago, felt when she escaped into the wilderness, running from the hands of the government? Hannah’s only choice is to run or be killed. How will she survive the wilderness alone, with no food or water, and desperately looking for her friend? Rip Maxwell pushes aside his anger and the need for revenge to ...

The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland - a lethal illness that seems to effect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic - and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien - a women's world.

The war against the undead may be turning, but for Elle Russo, the real battle has just begun. Reeling from the death of her sister and the destruction of The Prescott, Elle finds herself stranded on a military aircraft carrier, safe but hollow. Every inch of the ship reminds her of who she’s lost and who didn’t make it out. Grief has turned her inward, until an explosive encounter with a man she thought was behind bars jolts her back to life and back into trouble. Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Jones isn’t here to coddle survivors. Hardened by years on the front lines, Nick sees in Elle the...

Betrayed. Hunted. Surrounded by the dead. Kenshiro was supposed to lead a routine supply run until everything went wrong. Trapped behind enemy lines in a city overrun by the undead, he quickly discovers that the mission was a setup. Betrayed by those he once called allies, Kenshiro must survive an impossible escape and confront a truth that shakes him to his core. But he has no time to process the betrayal because somewhere out there, Elliott is in danger. Back at The Prescott, Elle is blindsided when she's locked away cut off from everyone she loves and powerless to intervene. When Elliott...

The world may have ended, but hope is just beginning. After months of hardship, betrayal, and unimaginable loss, Lucy and her makeshift family turn their backs on the corrupted base that once promised safety. With little more than determination and a vision for something better, they head west—risking everything for the chance to rebuild, to reclaim what it means to be human, and to prove that the end isn’t the end after all. On a highway haunted by dangers both living and dead, every mile tests their courage and their faith in each other. But even as the shadows of the old world ...

Looking for a strong woman to take on the Apocalypse? They survived the solar flare. They survived without power. They survived bandits. But can they survive a dictator who is determined to become the king of their state? Allison and her community have worked together to build a life after the flare. Can a ruthless man and the inmates he freed from the local prison take away everything they worked for?

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the...

“Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!” —Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations...

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories...

In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom, the animal kingdom's "favorite apocalyptic hero"is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic (Helen Macdonald). Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named...