By Max Brooks. A cross of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Sci Fi, this novel tells the story of the Zombie war and its aftermath with a series of individual accounts.

By David Brin. A book turned into a movie, this is the story of one man who tries to bring a sense of normality to a world devastated by a holocaust.

By Jack McDevitt. A quest story taking place after a massive plague a thousand years from now. A party sets out to find Haven, where the secrets to lost technology can be found.

By Kim Stanley Robinson. An interesting three-parter that tells the story of three different Californias after a nuclear war.

By Pat Frank Alas. This novel depicts life in a small town after a nuclear war and discusses how to survive once a sense of normalcy has disappeared.

By Richard Matheson. A plague caused by biological weapons causes an apocalypse, the protagonist vaccinates himself just in time, but the other survivors have a light sensitivity and are out to get the protagonist.

By Walter M. Miller Jr An award winning and religious themed novel where a post-nuclear monastic society has preserved knowledge, there is a kind of Renaissance and a new technological age.

By Cormac McCarthy. The story of a father and son as they journey across a burned and ravaged America.

By John Wyndham. A few thousand years after an apocalypse, Labrador has a new fundamentalist Christian society that is so focused on normalcy that any deviations are snuffed out--permanently. This is the story of what happens when some children have a genetic mutation that gives them telepathy.

By Thomas M. Disch. An alien race commits genocide against humanity in order to use Earth as a crop planet.