I need a good SHTF novel to read.

[ForceOfNature]

Neighborhood Watch books 1 & 2 were good. Am waiting on #3.

Black Hills Fall is another I enjoyed.

[Cali-Glock]

Another book in the Commune series by Joshua Gayou is coming out later this year.

Commune 5: The Battle of DC



I really liked the first few books, but must admit I was not as enthused by book #4. I have this pending book on my wish list, but I am not yet motivated enough to pre-order it.

[Keith4him]

Enjoying Jack Carr's Series, on the 4th book now. Also, the Gray Man series is great too, though the capacity to believe that he could survive all of those shootouts is a bit beyond the pale.

[bohoki]

listened to the one second after book its a bummer he didnt find a trailer with a propane refrigerator for the insulin if you run out of propane you can use a kerosene lamp if you run out of kerosene you can just use cooking oils the canabals scenario reminded me of lucifers hammer


listened to the old time radio show escape's the earth abides condensed version

[Cali-Glock]

Originally Posted by Keith4him

Enjoying Jack Carr's Series, on the 4th book now. Also, the Gray Man series is great too, though the capacity to believe that he could survive all of those shootouts is a bit beyond the pale.

I am listening to In the Blood - the 5th book in Jack Carr's series, and today I picked up my signed (and shot) hard copy from the Post Office.

[Cali-Glock]

Originally Posted by bohoki

listened to the one second after book its a bummer he didnt find a trailer with a propane refrigerator for the insulin if you run out of propane you can use a kerosene lamp if you run out of kerosene you can just use cooking oils the canabals scenario reminded me of lucifers hammer


listened to the old time radio show escape's the earth abides condensed version

I devoured Lucifers Hammer as a teen. I was not introduced to Earth Abides until fairly recently - it holds up pretty well for a 70+ year old book.

I really enjoyed all three of the books in the One Second After series. Forstchen's Day of Wrath is a much shorter book about terrorism - in many ways it is superior to and more disturbing than the One Second After books.

[Cali-Glock]

If you listen to Audible audiobooks https://freeaudiobookcodes.com/ is a great site. They have tons of books (changes hourly), and quite a few prepper, survivalism type fiction books.

They have codes for the books for two different markets: US and the United Kingdom. Often they will run out of US codes first but will still have UK codes. I can't count the number of times they would be out of US codes, but still have UK codes and I figured I was out of luck until someone explained I can setup an account with the UK version of Audible as well. Sure enough, simple to set up, I don't have a paid membership with Audible UK, but I can still get books there - I have gotten more than 80 free books so far on my UK account, many many times that on my US account.

[theLBC]

the stand

[Ralston]

Currently on the third book of Kurt Schlicter’s Kelly Turnbull series. Pretty good.

[squeeze]

Originally Posted by Cali-Glock

I devoured Lucifers Hammer as a teen. I was not introduced to Earth Abides until fairly recently - it holds up pretty well for a 70+ year old book.

I really enjoyed all three of the books in the One Second After series. Forstchen's Day of Wrath is a much shorter book about terrorism - in many ways it is superior to and more disturbing than the One Second After books.

I just about finished "One Year After". I get really upset when reading it and the previous. I know it is just fiction, Fiction right.........?

Getting upset is the reason I quit "Unintended Consequences" when it got to Ruby Mt. And there are those who want to give the government more power.

[Number Six]

Tagged

So how do you use the free audiobook codes on Audible. Been an audible subscriber for a long time. Never really noticed is there some place that you can enter a promo code?

[Cali-Glock]

Originally Posted by Number Six

Tagged

So how do you use the free audiobook codes on Audible. Been an audible subscriber for a long time. Never really noticed is there some place that you can enter a promo code?

Normally whoever is giving you an Audible code will provide the link but here it is: https://www.audible.com/ep/acx-redemption?

[FeuerFrei]

Walk Well My Brother / Farley Mowat & Never Cry Wolf / Farley Mowat
made into very good movies too

The Snow Walker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Walker

Never Cry Wolf
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Cry-Wol.../dp/0316881791

[ZapThyCat]

I enjoyed the "Rule of Three" series. More for teens, perhaps, but very realistic in many regards.

(EMP scenario of a sort, btw, where the protagonist is a teen boy who just built an ultralight aircraft, and this gives him and his neighborhood an edge in their survival, also their next door neighbor is a former agent/spy who knows what to do.

[WartHog]

Originally Posted by Cali-Glock

Another book in the Commune series by Joshua Gayou is coming out later this year.

Commune 5: The Battle of DC



I really liked the first few books, but must admit I was not as enthused by book #4. I have this pending book on my wish list, but I am not yet motivated enough to pre-order it.

Just started book #1 and am liking it - thanks for the recommendation.

[WartHog]

Am currently reading book seven of eight in Franklin Horton's Mad Mick Series. Has been quite entertaining and I highly recommend it!

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07PHLPJ...6473154&sr=8-3

[vino68]

I started reading the series Heartland Aliens, by Joshua James. The first book, Invasion, reads fast. I am on the second in the series, Uprising. It is free with Kindle Unlimited.

[Garand Hunter]

Did you watch the series back about four yrs ago ? Prepping programs. I watched them until the Cable outlets cancelled them. I don't remember the real name of the series.

Psalm 1

[nikonmike5]

Originally Posted by Garand Hunter

Did you watch the series back about four yrs ago ? Prepping programs. I watched them until the Cable outlets cancelled them. I don't remember the real name of the series.

Psalm 1

Doomsday Preppers?

[Vindad]

Mad Mick Series the garage door opener seriously had me thinking. Universal multiple frequencies easy to come by.

[Kokopelli]

Bible, the book of Revelation.

1/3 of mankind wiped out.
Oceans turn to blood.
A storm of meteors weighing 100 pounds.
Sky turns black.
Monsters released.

It doesn’t get more SHTF/TEOTWAWKI than that.

[WartHog]

Currently reading Reversion, book one of the Stonemont Series by Steven Smith. It's yet another EMP based SHTF scenario but is pretty well-written, espouses Conservative values, and is holding my interest so far. Free on Kindle Unlimited.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B076FM6F...u_mi_aw_edp_ku

[JDHCA]

Just a suggestion.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kurt-S...alEnabled=true

[echo1]

Not a novel but a great short story, PAX

http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.p...20.0;topicseen

[croue]

How about a manual instead? Classmate of mine wrote “the SHTF art of war”

https://www.amazon.com/S-H-T-F-Art-W...f-544da2f377fc


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[Spaffo]

A Long Time Until Now by Michael Williamson has a lot of prepper-type details. A mixed squad of soldiers in Afghanistan are transported back to the paleolithic. The second book in the series, That Was Now, This Is Then was good also.

[TheChief]

Originally Posted by Spaffo

A Long Time Until Now by Michael Williamson has a lot of prepper-type details. A mixed squad of soldiers in Afghanistan are transported back to the paleolithic. The second book in the series, That Was Now, This Is Then was good also.

Yeah, those were both good books. If you like modern folks transported back in time, look into the 1632 Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint. A modern town in West Virginia gets popped back to Europe in 1632, in the throws of the 30 years war. AR15s against flintlock muskets...hehehe. It is a long series though, some where around 90+ books and counting! I stopped after the 20th book or so.

After reading the first couple of books, my prepper tick started firing and I picked up an older edition of Encyclopedia Britannica

[Spaffo]

Reading Red Metal now. It's like a present day Red Storm Rising. Really good action with detailed tech, etc.

[elx144]

It's post collapse, I have a couple chapters left in "The Wrath of the Wendigo" by Clay Martin. I read one of his other books but it was less fiction and more instruction on how to deal with collapse as its happening. That one is "Prairie Fire".

I went back and got physical copies of the Matt Bracked "Enemies" series. Actually for about $120 I was able to get signed copies of all his books. The physical ones can't be deleted off Amazon.

[jonnyt16]

Originally Posted by elx144

I went back and got physical copies of the Matt Bracked "Enemies" series. Actually for about $120 I was able to get signed copies of all his books. The physical ones can't be deleted off Amazon.

Shoot, it might be close to 20 years since I read that series. I remember the first two books were great, the third...not so much.

[elx144]

Originally Posted by jonnyt16

Shoot, it might be close to 20 years since I read that series. I remember the first two books were great, the third...not so much.

He's got two more in a new series that starts with "Castigo Cay". It's pretty good but I don't think he's writing any more.

[jonnyt16]

Originally Posted by elx144

He's got two more in a new series that starts with "Castigo Cay". It's pretty good but I don't think he's writing any more.

That's a shame. I wish John Ross (Unintended Consequences) was still writing as well.

I just finished reading this and loved it... https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/....php?t=1843464

[bohoki]

just finished up the "going home" "surviving home" series well not the last one yet i grew tired of it after 9 or so


https://audiobookss.com/surviving-ho...-american.html

[WartHog]

Originally Posted by jonnyt16

That's a shame. I wish John Ross (Unintended Consequences) was still writing as well.

I just finished reading this and loved it... https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/....php?t=1843464

Unfortunately, John Ross passed away in April 2022 - RIP...

[RG22]

Originally Posted by Lone_Gunman

I'm a big reader, and I've read a LOT of SHTF novels, but I'm in the mood for a other one.
I've read
lucifer's hammer
Alas Babylon
The road
The postman
Lights out
One second after
The books in the Patriots series by Rawles
The books in the 299 days series

Also a bunch of different zombie books, and others.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

Have you heard of the Stonemont Series by Steven Smith? There are 5 total and a 6th is soon to publish. I follow him on YouTube and Patreon.

[sealocan]

I haven't read every post on this thread but I do enjoy the post-apocalyptic genre but I don't always enjoy a zombies or if the story turns into a multi-person soap opera with so many different people in the story it's almost like a big city of characters. (* for example The Walking Dead TV series was great when it was only one or a few humans but then it became way overcrowded with mini cities and love stories and save your drama for your mama type of BS).

My thing about post-apocalyptic stories is that you're supposed to reduce the population so the writer can then condense/ concentrate the whole human versus nature or other humans eternal struggle type story. Or at least that's my take on it.

It's like those cartoons where the person is on a very small deserted island, so it's a concentration of the story down to just the one or two humans all alone.

Anyhow I digress, what I came here to post.
I recently found a book where the population is almost completely eliminated and it starts off with just one young man alone. I haven't finished it yet and I was not able to find an audible version so I had to pay $3.99 for the Kindle version but so far so good, Especially if you like just a few characters or possibly even just one character type (and No zombies) apocalypse / apocalyptic /end of the world stories...
When I finish it I'll come back and give a full review without any spoilers but since I'm already enjoying it I figured I'd share so here's the Goodreads review page of it where you can read how it's gotten high ratings and a brief synopsis. Lastly if you go to the Amazon Kindle link it gives you the first few pages for free.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-everyone-died

[menancyandsam]

Originally Posted by dwalker

DOGSOLDIERS by James Tarr

Sword of the Caliphate by Clay Martin

Thanks dwalker for recommending the above. Very enjoyable books.

Dodsoldiers follows a small militia group as they try to fight for freedom against the US military. Character development is great & the events that follow are very realistic. Really a great book that should get more attention. Also includes subtle (not in your face) references of the importance of protecting our rights or suffer the whirlwind's of govt. overreach.

Sword of the Caliphate I was hesitant to read, but as long as you can suspend disbelief regarding the biological agent that wrecks havoc on the world, then it becomes a great action pack gun fun adventure that becomes a page turner.

[jonnyt16]

Originally Posted by WartHog

Unfortunately, John Ross passed away in April 2022 - RIP...

Ugh, that is terrible! I was totally unaware. Unintended Consequences is such an iconic work. It is the only book I keep in my safe.

In the same vein (conservative/gun culture/liberty vs tyranny) I highly recommend Wrath of the Wendigo by Clay Martin. Just came out last year. It's a short novel but a total page turner and the ending does NOT disappoint.

[echo1]

Noy a novel but a good short story. PAX
http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.p...20.0;topicseen