If you're religious at all, I'd recommend the Left Behind Series.

Otherwise, don't come near it with a ten-foot pole.

 

Ok, Asimov will be my next author then. After I finish some harry turtledove books I'll look into that foundation series. but my library sucks lol.
@Lyndon
Ya, I like that series, I'm anti-religion but pro-god if that makes any sense to you lol. Makes perfect sense to me.

 

That sounds.... fantastic. Holy shit.

Also, Evran, have you read 1984? More dystopia than post-apocalyptic, but it has those leanings.

 

1984 never caught my interest, not that I won't read it.

 

Xiph0: How so? I've never read any of his stuff, myself.

Evran: Well, it's not the happiest of stories, hehe. But it pioneered a lot of ideas, like the whole 'Big Brother' thing. I dunno, it's just kind of neat. Though I will never drink gin because of it.

 

World War Z comes to mind.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction

If you run out of recomended books.

 

This. The style in which it was written is pretty damn cool, does a lot for the book. Also, if you're kind of into Stephen King, Cell is pretty interesting too. It starts out normally, and then Cell phones promptly drive most of humanity completely insane, with little scattered bits of survivors running around, looking for family and trying to figure out what happened.

Alas, Babylon is another one, with a town in Florida surviving a nuclear war.

 

The Stand, by Stephen King, is also very decent. At the start a biological weapon developed by the Us army is leaked and starts spreading, with 95.5% or something similar who have no immunity to it and die.

What you are left with are two sides, one with an crazy insane guy, Randall Flagg, stockpiling Nukes in Las Vegas and using magic to lure people to his side, and another group of survivors on the opposite coast trying to find a way to survive, rebuild humanity and stop the bad dude.


Probably one of my favourite books.

 

Sree, your mother was brutal.

I Am Legend, the novel.

 

Great book for the ending, sort of a tough read for the overabundance of descriptive detail. Can drag at points.

The prequel (kind of) to World War Z is the The Zombie Survival Guide, which is a fun read as well.

 

Brutal was a poor choice of words. Usually, people gravitate to that genre when they are older and on their own, but the fact it was read at your bedside is kind of funny in a macabre way.

 

The Road by Cormac Mccarthy has come extremely highly recommended to me before, although I have never actually read it. Anyone else have thoughts on it?

 

Vampire Earth series. It's a...Unusual twist on the idea of a decimated Earth. I really enjoyed it.

 

World War Z was recced to me before, even though zombie movies are annoying, maybe a book would be better.
But I was looking for more like post nuke war/post asteroid type books. Like Alas Babylon.
But I think I got enough recommendations lol. Don't need this thread to grow any more do we?