8 Best Post-Apocalyptic Books of All Time

There are dystopian stories, and then post-apocalyptic ones. Some might be a bit of both at the same time, if they play out over a sufficiently long period, but the main difference is that dystopian fiction is about a world falling apart, to the extent that it might soon end, while post-apocalyptic fiction is about surviving that end. The world does pretty much have to collapse, at some point in the story or potentially before the events depicted, for something to be post-apocalyptic.