I'm in the process of rereading The Stand. It deals with the end of the world as we know it. Any other books dealing with this type of scenario? Almost everyone being wiped out from disease, disasters, nuclear war, etc? Have it actually happen, not one of those stories where they stop it at the last second.

"Swan Song" by Robert R. McCammon -- great book

Also, "100 Years of Solitude" is somewhat similar, if only in the fictional geographic locations specific to the novel

A hearty second for Swan Song. Just an outstanding read all the way around...

How about The Road by Cormac McCarthy?

I was thinking that, too, but it's more "post-apocalyptic," in which case a book like "Emergence" by David R Palmer would also qualify. Still all worth reading, tho, def!

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besides The Stand I like Lucifer's Hammer by Niven & Pournelle

Day of the Trifids by John Wyndham -- first a mysterious comet (or perhaps a malfunctioning orbital weapons platform) causes everyone to go blind, save a few people who didn't go outside to see the pretty lights in the sky; then predatory plants begin to take over the countryside, finding easy pickings in the blind while the few sighted survivors build holdfasts.

If you've seen 28 Days Later, you should know that Danny Boyle ripped off this book extensively, just changing the predatory plants to zombies. The opening scene is straight out of the novel.

On The Beach by Nevil Shute

The Last Ship by William Brinkley was an excellent read.
It is a bit dated being written in 1988 but the story plays out the psychology of survivors of a nuclear winter.

Don't judge it by the movie but L. Ron Hubbards Battlefield Earth is another good read.

Right after seeing the title of this thread I came very close to merging with that earlier thread you've cited but decided instead that someone might care to update the list I made there and post it here. I'll do it myself if I get the opportunity over the holidays.

There is also a link from one of my posts in that earlier thread to a mega list from rec.sf.arts.sf.written that was saved in DejaGoogle.

Loved Swan Song.

I'll second "Day of the Triffids" and "On the Beach."

"The Forge of God" by Greg Bear
"Moonseed" by Stephen Baxter

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

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Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller. A true classic, with very intriguing religious themes.

Cat's Cradle.

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon is a great book.

I read this one book that ended with these guy dying on a row boat. They just come from a sub. If I recall correctly a nuclear cloud drifted over the Earth and killed everyone. Read it when I was like 9 so details aren't real clear.

Sounds to me like Nevil Shute's "On The Beach".

Yep that is the one.

Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito is an excellent (and humorous) book.

"World War Z" -- Zombie apocalypse
"Dies the Fire" -- Technology stops working
"The Postman" -- post-nuclear holocaust
"Monster Island -- Zombie apocalypse
"Children of Men" -- mankind becomes sterile
"Year Zero" -- killer virus from biblical times

How about where it ends before halfway through the novel?

You must read the classic The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/pro...ud,672245.aspx

It's been an influence on every "last man on earth" scenario. The first half of the book is an amazingly haunting journey through an earth littered with corpses. "I was used to the silence of the ice; and I was used to the silence of the sea; but I was afraid of the silence of Europe."