Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Total War | 1981 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 2 | The Nightmare Begins | 1981 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 3 | The Quest | 1981 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 4 | The Doomsayer | 1981 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 5 | The Web | 1983 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 6 | The Savage Horde | 1983 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 7 | The Prophet | 1984 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 8 | The End is Coming | 1984 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 9 | Home Invasion | 2017 | Sharon Ahern | N/A |
| 10 | Earth Fire | 1984 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 11 | The Awakening | 1984 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 12 | The Reprisal | 1985 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 13 | The Rebellion | 1985 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 14 | Pursuit | 1986 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 15 | The Terror | 1987 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 16 | Overlord | 1987 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 17 | The Arsenal | 1987 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 18 | The Ordeal | 1988 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 19 | Mid-Wake | 1988 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 20 | The Struggle | 1989 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 21 | Final Rain | 1989 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 22 | Firestorm | 1990 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 23 | To End All War | 1990 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 24 | The Legend | 1991 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 25 | Brutal Conquest | 1991 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 26 | Call to Battle | 1992 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 27 | Blood Assassins | 1992 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 28 | War Mountain | 1993 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 29 | Countdown | 1993 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 30 | Death Watch | 1993 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 31 | The Inheritors of Earth | 2013 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 32 | Earth Shine | 2014 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 33 | The Quisling Covenant | 2014 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 34 | Deep Star | 2015 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 35 | Lodestar | 2016 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 36 | Blood Moon | 2018 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
| 37 | Operation Phoenix | 2019 | Sharon Ahern | Buy |
Sharon Ahern’s Survivalist series launched in 1981 with Total War and grew steadily through the 1980s and early 1990s, reaching 30 books by the time Death Watch was published in 1993. The first run of novels appeared at a rapid clip, with four books in 1981 alone and multiple releases nearly every year after that.
After a 20-year gap, the series returned in 2013 with The Inheritors of Earth and continued with seven more books through 2019, ending with Operation Phoenix. The later entries picked up where the original run left off while bringing the story into a new era. With 37 books in total, the Survivalist series is one of the longer-running fiction series by a single author, and reading from the beginning gives the fullest picture of how the story unfolds.