Perhaps Stephen King’s most popular book, The Stand imagines the worst: a computer error in a Defense Department lab unleashes a superflu that wipes out more than 99% of the world’s population, paving the way for an edge-of-doom clash between good and evil. “I got a chance to scrub the whole human race,” King said of the book, which was inspired by fantasy epics like The Lord of the Rings. “And man, it was fun.”
Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Books
There's something satisfying in imagining the end of the world. These ten books did it best.