Anyone know of any good fictional books about SHTF scenarios ?

depends on what you are looking for...

i read wolf and iron about two weeks ago becasue it was mentioned here...heavy on primitive living skills in an individual or isolated setting.

lots of neat stuff abotut wolf behavior, too. was written by an established sci-fi author so it reads well and the informatioin is accurate.

The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern, i have 21 books in my set so far and i know the set is far more extensive.

peperback but some arent cheap. i have a few spares kicking aroun here somewhares are you interested??

Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collaps - James Wesley Rawles
Farnham's Freehold - Robert Heinlein

Warday : And the Journey Onward by Strieber, Whitley; Kunetka, James

Wet Work by Philip Nutman

Wasn't this the one with the limited nuclear exchange with the USSR, and the two protagonists were journeying across the west.  The entire west coast was controlled by the Japanese, and people with diseases were "quarantined" in camps.  Good book.

THats the one, Amazon has used copies for $5.00

Imbroglio, just ordered a copy on your recommendation, will give it a read.

I read Alas Babylon in high school.  I remember really enjoying it and I still think about it sometimes.

The Stand - I read this alone in the dark when I was a computer operator working 2nd shift, no one else in the building. I was 18 and the thing really had my skin crawling. I could hear things in the warehouse...

Both are entertaining and make you think about what it would be like.

I also read "Alas, Babylon" in college. Great SHTF book. A really memorable book as I can still remember the entire story 30 years later!
"We killed them" - I'll never forget it.

Dang...I know we just had this topic come up a few weeks ago, but I can't find it with a search.  

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Haven't read very many of these, but here's a list.

48 - James Herbert
8.4 - Peter Hernon
A Hunter's Fire - Floyd R. Dale
Aftermath - Charles Sheffield
Aftermath - LeVar Burton
After the Bomb(series) - Gloria D. Miklowitz
Alas Babylon - Pat Frank
Amerika - Brauna E. Pouns
Arc Light - Eric L. Harry
Armageddon(short stories) - Drake & Mosiman
Ashes, Ashes - Rene Barjavel
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Breakdown - William W. Johnstone
Cold Creek Cash Store - Russell Hill
Dark December - Alfred Coppel
Death on a Warm Wind - Douglas Warner
Death Wind - William C. Heine
Defiance(also as Vandenberg) - Oliver Lange
Domain - James Herbert
Down to a Sunless Sea - David Graham
Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
Emergence - David R. Palmer
Famine - Graham Masterton
Firebrats(series) - Barbara & Scott Siegel
First Angel - Ed Mann
Free Flight - Douglas Terman
Heartland - David Hagberg
I, Martha Adams - Pauline Glen Winslow
In Iron Years - Gordon R. Dickson
Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
Invasion - Eric L. Harry
Jenny, My Diary
Level 7 - Mordecai Roshwald
Long Loud Silence - Wilson Tucker
Long Voyage Back - Luke Rhinehart
Lucifer's Hammer - Niven and Pournelle
Malevil - Robert Merle
Mister Touch - Malcolm Bosse
No Blade of Grass - John Christopher
Not This August - C.M. Kornbluth
Omega Sub(series) - J.D. Cameron
One Just Man - James Mills
Out of the Ashes(series) - William Johnstone
Pandemic - Geoffrey Simmons
Path of the Pale Horse - Paul Fleishman
Patriots - James Wesley Rawles
Resurrection Day - Brendan DuBois
Some Will Not Die - Algis Budrys
Storm Rider(series) - Robert Baron
Survival 2000(series) - James McPhee
Survival Margin - David Graham
Survivors - John Nahmlos
Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
The City, Not Long After - Pat Murphy
The Day of the Star Cities - John Brunner
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
The End of the World(short stories) – Wollheim
The Freeman - Jerry Ahern & Sharon Ahern
The Iron Rain - Donald Malcolm
The Kraken Awakes - John Wyndham
The Last Ranger - Craig Sargent
The Last Ship - William Brinkley
The Long Winter - John Christopher
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Postman - David Brin
The Rift - Walter J. Williams
The Sheep Look Up - John Brunner
The Stand - Stephen King
The Survivalist (series) - Jerry Ahern
The Steel, The Mist, and the Blazing Sun - Christopher Anvil      
The Survivalist (series) - Jerry Ahern
The Turner Diaries - Andrew MacDonald
The Wild Shore - Kim Stanley Robinson
Those Who Favor Fire - Marta Randall
Time Capsule - Mitch Berman
Tomorrow! - Philip Wylie
Vector - Henry Sutton
War Day - Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka
When the Almond Tree Blossoms - David Aikman
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
Wrath of God - Robert Gleason
Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O'brien

The Stand by Stephen King, fuck the movie, READ THE BOOK, by far his best work.

For those who have objected to the "secondhander" comment then I'll second ally the Ayn Rand recommendations.  Objectivism.  You must see by now, all you White trash hick dirtbag Confederate scum, that I am far from left wing.  You will continue to suck from us as long as your cus'n's children shall live for forwarding your cause in a literate manner.  You need us to forward your view.
Also, if you're interested in a good story, then I'd suggest Nelson DeMille's books, particularly "The Lion's Game".  Read it. Yes, some mention of Glock .40's and M1A's and FBI and CIA and NYPD and all of the intrugue, but also published in 2000, before the WTC attacks, but still aware of the first failed bombing.  Corey is hilarious, and you you might find yourself compelled to read "Plum Island" after you finish.  Head on out to your library, yes, I know that it's far from the woods that most of you live in, (Read a book?  What?  That's for liberals!!!)  and support an author who is a former U.S Army lieutenant who served in Vietnam.  Better yet, buy the book with your blue collar money.

Oh, and for all of you who appeal to authority, the book has been listed on the #1 Bestseller and NYT Bestselling author lists.

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Got a recommendation for you too, little buddy:

"What Lithium can do for you", by Nancy Ann Luft.

Now go and take your "I'm better than you" attitude and hie thee to Europe :P

Sorry Gunga Din, I'm a Yankee. You've enjoyed the hospitality of my state. With that "GO BLUE!" perhaps my home town. Wouldn't want you to hit the wrong people with that sawed off shotgun of a mouth of yours.

Ayn Rand despised the Roosevelts and would have thrown up at Hillary Clinton becoming a Senator from NY. Clearly with your little love sonnet defense of those two (and their socialist organization memberships) you are [u]not[/u] an objectivist.

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canticle for leibowitz.

Agreed, another in the long line of, "great book, horrible movie"

Reign Of The Dead by Len Barnhart

Lurker beat me to it!

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller.

Would On the Beach by Neville Shute count?

Wow, I just posted a review from 1999 of the Pat Frank SHTF 'Alas, Babylon' and then came over here to see that [b]Attman[/b] and [b]Fly-n-hitch-hiker[/b] remembered reading it, and it appears on [b]blkbrd's[/b] list.

Go see that review of the book I posted!

Eric The(Nostalgic)Hun[>]:)]