American post-apocalyptic novels

2008 novel by Suzanne Collins

science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick

2009 novel by Suzanne Collins

2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy

1978 novel by Stephen King

Mockingjay is a 2010 dystopian young adult fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series, following 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire. The book concludes the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to unify the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol.

2011 novel by Veronica Roth

1950 novel by Ray Bradbury

1954 novel by Richard Matheson

2009 novel by James Dashner

1950 novel by Isaac Asimov

2020 novel by Suzanne Collins

1959 novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

1912 novel by Jack London

2006 novel by Max Brooks

non-fiction work by Alan Weisman

series of 16 novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, published 1995-2007

Sunrise on the Reaping is a 2025 dystopian novel written by American author Suzanne Collins and the second prequel novel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, following The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020). Set about 24 years before the events of the first novel, the narrative delves into themes of political manipulation, the power of propaganda, and the complexities of societal control under a totalitarian regime and centers on the 50th Hunger Games, in which Haymitch Abernathy competed. It was released on March 18, 2025, and published by Scholastic.

novel by Kurt Vonnegut

2009 novel by Paolo Bacigalupi

1971 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

1985 novel by David Brin

1967 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

novel by Philip K. Dick

1982 novel by L. Ron Hubbard

Uglies is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. It is set in a futuristic post-scarcity world in which everyone is considered an "Ugly" until they are then turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery when they reach the age of 16. It tells the story of a teenager, Tally Youngblood, who rebels against society's enforced conformity after her friends Shay and David show her the downsides to come a "Pretty".

1956 novel by Philip K. Dick

science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny

1976 novel by Kate Wilhelm

novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny

2003 novel by Jeanne DuPrau

1967 novel by William F. Nolan

1972 novel by Norman Spinrad

novel by Fritz Leiber

1976 novella by James Tiptree, Jr.

2010 novel by Justin Cronin

2010 novel by Isaac Marion

1977 novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

1959 novel by Mordecai Roshwald

1970 novel by Alexander Key

1994 novel by John Barnes

2014 novel by Josh Malerman

1959 novel by Pat Frank

1960 novel by Philip K. Dick

1957 novel by A. E. van Vogt

1970 novel by Wilson Tucker

1922 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs

novel series by Kass Morgan

1968 novel by Richard Brautigan

1949 novel by George Rippey Stewart

1964 novel by Robert A. Heinlein

1985 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

novel by Philip K. Dick

2004 novel by Jeanne DuPrau

novel by Robert A. Heinlein

1995 novel by Jonathan Lethem

Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. It features an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by an unknown catastrophe. It is number 33 on the 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction list.