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Book about last people on earth?

Does anyone know of books that tell a story about the last person on earth, or maybe some people left but not many. Kind of like the movie I am legend without the monsters. I am looking for just end of man kind.. but with a few people, not mutation, or living underground because of nuclear stuff. Do you know any books, movies, or anything like that?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Here is just a list of a few that i got off of wikipedia! I hope this help! Im not sure if any of these deal with monsters.... mutations or nuclear warfare =/ sorry :(

    Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man

    The 1885 novel After London by Richard Jefferies

    Stephen Vincent Benét's short story "By the Waters of Babylon

    Published in 1898, H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds depicts an invasion of Earth by inhabitants of the planet Mars

    The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

    Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

    In 1978, Stephen King published The Stand, which follows the odyssey of a small number of survivors of a world-ending influenza pandemic.

    Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is an example of dystopian post-apocalyptic fiction.The framing story is set after a genetically modified virus wipes out the entire population except for the protagonist and a small group of humans that were also genetically modified. MUTATION! Dont read lol

    The White Plague (1982) a novel by Frank Herbert. When a bomb planted by the IRA goes off, the wife and children of molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill are killed on May 20, 1996. Driven insane by loss, he plans a genocidal revenge and creates a plague that kills women.

    René Barjavel's 1943 novel Ravage

    S. M. Stirling, Dies the Fire

    Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

    When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer

    One in Three Hundred, by J. T. McIntosh

    Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven (1977) is about a cataclysmic comet hitting the Earth, and various groups of people struggling to survive the aftermath in southern California.

    and there is just a few

  • 4 years ago

    Last Man On Earth Book

  • 1 decade ago

    City of Ember series. It consists of four books and the first is even a movie. Don't just watch the movie and write it off, either. Make sure to read it. The books are almost always better than the movie. Check it out: (:

    http://www.jeanneduprau.com/books.shtml

  • 1 decade ago

    Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien -- a toxin wipes out the entire world except for one valley. One girl is left when everyone else leaves to investigate. Eventually another survivor makes his way there. Be warned, this book scared me!

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    1 decade ago

    Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer

    and the rest of this series, which perfectly fits your description

    The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

    Everlost by Neal Shusterman.... not really "end of mankind" but similar

  • 1 decade ago

    One more book I'd like to add to the list:

    I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

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