Poll Results: SurvivalBlog Reader’s Favorite Survivalist Fiction

Here are the results of our recent poll. Thety are listed in no particular order, but each book listed below received at least two votes. Those that are marked with an asterisk are suitable for teenagers.

• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank*
• Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• One Second After by William R. Forstchen (An EMP scenario.)
• Earth Abides by George Stewart*
• Dies the Fire series by S.M. Stirling
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows
• The Survivalist series (Most recommended just the first 10 books) by Jerry Ahern
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Lights Out by David Crawford (a.k.a. HalfFast, (Post-EMP attack shareware serialized e-book, hosted by Frugal Squirrel’s)
• The Rackham Files by Dean Ing (includes the the novel previously published as “Pulling Through”)
• Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party
• Last of the Breed by Louis L’amour
• The Postman (Bantam Classics) by David Brin
• Wolf And Ironby Gordon Dickson
• World Made by Handby James Howard Kunstler
• Farnham’s Freeholdby Robert Heinlein*
• Out of the Ashes (Ashes Series #1) by William Johnstone
• On the Beach by Nevil Shute
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Unintended Consequences by John Ross (Warning: Graphic violence and sexually explicit)
• Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
• Things Fall Apart by Fred Heiser (Also available as a PDF e-book.)
• The Rift by Walter J. Williams
• Malevil by Robert Merle
• Swan Song by Robert McCammon
• Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
• Deep Winter and Shatter by Thomas C. Sherry
• Warday: And the Journey Onward by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
• Enemies Foreign and Domestic series by Matt Bracken
• Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein*
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
• Solar Flare by Larry Burkett
• The New Madrid Run by Michael Reisig
• The Collapse by Jeff Stanfield
• Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
• The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card
• The Restoration Series by Terri Blackstock
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein*
• Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
• The Last Canadian by William C. Heine
• Survivors by Terry Nation
• Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History by S.M. Stirling
• ED Day-Dead Sydney by Darryl Mason (Post flu pandemic shareware serialized e-book.)
• Fallen Angels by Niven and Pournelle
• King Rat by James Clavell
• The Guardians Series by Richard Austin
• There Falls No Shadow by David Crossley
• Long Voyage Back by Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft)
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• The Frontiersmen by Allan Eckert
• Vandenberg by Oliver Lange (Note: It was later republished under the title: “Defiance: An American Novel”)
• There Will Be Dragons by John Ringo
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Not This August by C.M. Kornbluth
• After War by Janet Morris
• Neither Predator Nor Prey by Mark Spungin
• After the Bomb: Week One by Gloria Miklowitz
• Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• A Secret History of Time to Come Robie MacAuley
• Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys (Plague scenario)
• 1632 (The Assiti Shards) by Eric Flint
• Cold Creek Cash Store by Russell Hill
• Patriots by James Wesley, Rawles

Thanks for all your input. As I recently mentioned in an interview on the Laura Ingraham show, one of the best ways to inspire preparedness newbies is to put a piece of survival fiction in their hands. It gets them thinking through some potential “what if” situations.