Books like The end of the world by Leslie, John

A weary father and his young son journey across a bleak, post‑apocalyptic America, battling cannibals, starvation, and a harsh winter in a desperate quest for safety and a glimpse of remaining civilization.

After a catastrophic flu outbreak devastates the world, survivors must choose between two leaders—an elderly black woman heading to Boulder or the sinister Randall Flagg in Las Vegas—setting the stage for a struggle between good and evil.

After a catastrophic pandemic, former actress Kirsten Raymonde joins a traveling troupe that performs Shakespeare for scattered communities, only to confront a ruthless prophet in a desperate quest for survival.

Set centuries after a nuclear apocalypse, the monks of St. Matthew’s preserve the remnants of 20th‑century science, safeguarding knowledge for future generations amid a feudal society.

In a future where corporations weaponize genetic engineering, Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* explores the ethical and societal consequences of bioterrorism and gene hacking.

An unforgettable love story in a future overrun by genetic engineering.

Robin Wall Kimmerer blends scientific inquiry and Indigenous wisdom, illustrating how listening to plant and animal languages can deepen our ecological stewardship.

After a zombie plague, a small squad of sweepers, led by Mark Spitz, clears the walled‑off Zone One in lower Manhattan to prepare the area for resettlement.

When a global nuclear war has devastated the world, a small group of survivors in Australia must confront the relentless march of radiation as it threatens to reach their beaches.

In a near‑future India, a mysterious plague makes people's shadows vanish, stripping them of memory and granting an ominous new power. As society unravels, a husband and wife race through a war‑torn world to protect each other and find a cure.

In an alternate history where Nazi Germany reigns supreme, a young agent named Daniel Carter infiltrates a German secret service to expose a covert plot surrounding a powerful scientific initiative.

There have been five great extinctions in the long history of life on earth, the most recent 65 million years ago, when all dinosaur species perished in an astonishingly brief period of time. Each of these great extinctions was unimaginably catastrophic - at least 65 percent of all species living vanished in a geological instant; in the Permian extinction, nearly 95 percent of all species were obliterated. The agency for these extinctions, the why, is hotly debated - sudden climate change, asteroids, evolutionary inadequacy - but the patterns are remarkably consistent. Now, as Leakey and Lewin show with inarguable logic based on irrefutable scientific evidence, the sixth great extinction is underway. And this time the cause is beyond dispute: By the lowest estimate, thirty thousand species are wiped out by human agency every year - a rate that matches the patterns of the other five great extinctions with frightening exactitude. As the authors show, such dramatic and overwhelming extinction threatens the entire complex fabric of life on earth, including the species at fault, Homo sapiens. Unless we come to realize the devastating consequence of our rapacious behavior, we will follow the mastodon, the great auk, the carrier pigeon, and our other victims into the oblivion of extinction.