List of Nuclear Holocaust Fiction - Novels

Novels

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (The world is in a state of permanent war amongst the 3 Superstates - Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia. It is stated in the book that whereas Rocket Bombs are allowed and are used against the civilian population (as are other conventional weapons), Nuclear Weapons are banned from use. The book mentions that there was a Nuclear War during the 1950s (Winston has a childhood memory of Colchester being destroyed by a nuclear weapon) just before the Revolution that brought Ingsoc to power in Oceania.)

• A Gift Upon the Shore by M. K. Wren
• Agviq by Michael Armstrong
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem (regarding Hatfork)
• Arc Light by Eric Harry
• Armageddon's Children By Terry Brooks (2006) (Genesis of Shannara Trilogy book 1)
• The Ashes Series by William W. Johnstone
• Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1960)
• Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
• Commander-1 by Peter George
• The Conquered Place by Robert Shafer (1954 novel in which the United States east of the Mississippi has been occupied by totalitarian armies. Syracuse, New York is a 'bombed-out shell', and Boston, Massachusetts is a 'yawning radioactive crater'. There is a resultant complete breakdown of morality and social institutions. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)
• Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny
• Dark December by Alfred Coppel
• Dark Mirrors by Arno Schmidt
• Davy and other works by Edgar Pangborn
• The Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles by Robert Moore Williams
• Deathlands series by a variety of authors writing under the pen name James Axler
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
• Domain by James Herbert
• Doomday Wing by George H. Smith
• Doomsday Plus Twelve by James D. Forman
• Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
• Earthwreck! by Thomas N. Scortia
• Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
• End of the World by Dean Owen (novelization of the film Panic in Year Zero!)
• Endworld series by David Robbins
• Eon by Greg Bear
• The Erthing Cycle by Wayland Drew
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (the book mentions that there is an ongoing war with an unnamed aggressor, and that there has been a previous Nuclear War before (it does not mention when but it appears to be in the 1960s), and in the end of the book it has Montag and one of the living books looking out of the camp towards the City which has been struck by a nuclear weapon.)
• Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
• Fire Brats by Scott Siegel and Barbara Siegel
• "Free Flight" by Douglas Terman
• The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
• God's Grace by Bernard Malamud
• The Guardians series by Richard Austin
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Judas Syndrome by Michael Poeltl (Post-nuclear coming of age trilogy)
• The Last Children of Schewenborn by Gudrun Pausewang
• The Last Ship by William Brinkley
• Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
• Light's Out by David Crawford
• The Long Loud Silence by Wilson Tucker
• The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
• Long Voyage Back by George Cockcroft, under the pen name Luke Rhinehart, 1983
• Malevil by Robert Merle
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Not This August by C.M. Kornbluth
• Obernewtyn and subsequent novels in the series by Isobelle Carmody
• On the Beach by Nevil Shute
• One Second After by William R. Forstchen
• The Outward Urge, by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes
• The Pelbar Cycle, Book One (Beyond Armageddon) by Paul O. Williams
• Plan of Attack, a 2004 thriller by Dale Brown
• The Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin
• Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno
• Red Alert, by Peter George
• Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Prime Directive, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (A Star Trek novel where an alien civilization is apparently destroyed by a sudden, unexpected nuclear war among its own people.)
• Pulling Through, by Dean Ing (first half of the book is a novel on a family surviving a nuclear blast, the second half was a non-fiction survival guide)
• The School for Atheists by Arno Schmidt
• Second Ending, by James White
• The Seventh Day by Hans Hellmut Kirst (original title Keiner Kommt Davon)
• Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril (1950) A novel about a young housewife's ordeals in the aftermath of nuclear attack
• Single Combat by Dean Ing (second in the Ted Quantril trilogy)
• A Small Armageddon by Mordecai Roshwald
• Star Mans Son by Andre Norton (1952) a post-apocalyptic novel that takes place about two centuries after the Great-Blowup. This story is also entitled Daybreak - 2250 AD in reprint editions.
• "The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun" by Christopher Anvil
• The Survivalist by Jerry Ahern
• Swan Song by Robert McCammon
• Systemic Shock by Dean Ing (first in the Ted Quantril trilogy)
• Tengu by Graham Masterton
• Test of Fire by Ben Bova
• There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson
• This Is the Way the World Ends (novel) by James Morrow
• This Time Tomorrow by Lauran Paine
• Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
• Trinity's Child by William Prochnau (1983)
• Triumph by Philip Wylie
• The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove
• Vaneglory by George Turner
• Viper Three by Walter Wager
• Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
• When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs
• Wild Country by Dean Ing (Third in the Ted Quantril Trilogy)
• The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson
• The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
• Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove (alternate history: World War II turns nuclear in 1943, another nuclear war in the 1960s)
• Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
• The Zone series by James Rouch
• The Silo Series by Hugh Howey(2011) A nuclear exchange is used to cover up a nano-bot attack