Top 10 Greatest Prepper Fiction Books of All Time

July 14, 2024

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If you call yourself a prepper, it means you should be a perpetual student. There’s always something more that you can learn or more skills to master…

But, of course, you don’t want your life to be nothing but work and study. It’s okay to have fun and relax, and if you are a reader, hardly anything is better than settling down with a good novel.

And here, we are lucky you can read a cracking good story and still be improving your prepper IQ with the right books.

The following 10 titles all have survival, preparation, or desperately holding out against the odds as central plot points. It might be fiction, and some of them are even fantastical, but you can still learn some very important lessons and have a good time doing so. Let’s get right into it…

Darkness on the Edge of Town

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Darkness on the Edge of Town, by Brian Keene

A supernatural horror thriller that focuses on the rapidly dwindling population of a small town.

One day, out of nowhere and with no warning, a dome or ring of absolute and impenetrable inky darkness surrounds a town with no signals, and no people are able to get out or in. Those brave or foolish few who chance the darkness meet horrendously terrible ends.

The terror of the situation, along with rapidly dwindling supplies, leads survivors who are stuck within the town’s borders to cooperate at first, but this quickly devolves into tribalism and bloodlust as food, water, alcohol, and cigarettes run out.

It’s a terrifying tale written in a journal style, and a harrowing look at how dire things will get in any kind of survival scenario when the food starts to run out. Get the book here.

The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries)