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A American Books in Order

Explore all A. American books in order, from The Survivalist novels to Charlie's Requiem and standalones, with summaries, series background, and simple guidance on where to start reading.

Last updated: December 16, 2025

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21 books

Exploring Home

by A American

2023

With babies on the way and the farm growing, Morgan’s settlement finally dares to think about the future. Tension spikes when the U.S. Army arrives with its own plans, pushing Morgan and Sarge to test just how much authority they’re willing to accept over the home they’ve rebuilt.

Contagion

by A American

2023

As the central government and its foreign backers start losing control, they unleash a new horror: a designer disease spread by infected mosquitoes. Caught between occupation forces and a spreading plague, Charlie and the resistance must fight both enemies at once to keep their people alive.

Engineering Home

by A American

2022

As Morgan Carter’s community stabilizes, attention shifts from day‑to‑day survival to long‑term projects—power, tools, and infrastructure that could make life truly livable again. Those gains draw interest from outsiders, forcing the group to protect what they’re building without losing sight of why they started.

Ramblin' Man

by A American

2020

In this compact story, Angery American leaves the homestead for the open road, following a wanderer moving through a fractured, uneasy America. Each stop shows another way the old normal has failed—and how hard it is to stay free when the country is coming apart.

Decline and Decay

by A American

2020

This non‑fiction handbook looks at recent unrest and institutional failure, then lays out practical strategies for facing whatever comes next. From mindset to basic gear and planning, it’s written for readers who don’t expect anyone else to rescue them when things go bad.

Retribution

by A American

2018

Occupation forces and state‑sanctioned gangs now rule the streets, and Charlie has lost too many friends to simply run. Joining a growing underground, she helps take the fight back to the occupiers, knowing every act of retribution brings hope to some and deadly retaliation to others.

Home Coming

by A American

2018

Years into the collapse, Morgan Carter is no longer just trying to get home—he’s trying to define it. Old enemies, new alliances, and the long shadow of war force him to confront what he’s willing to risk so his family and community can finally stop merely surviving.

Resistance

by A American

2017

The city Charlie once knew has become a battlefield where gangs, corrupt officials, and would‑be warlords carve up the ruins. With food running out and capture a constant risk, she and her companions must decide whether to gamble on fleeing the city or stay and resist rising tyranny.

Home Invasion

by A American

2017

With a repaired power plant and a thriving farm, Morgan Carter finally sees a sliver of light at the end of the tunnel. But local rivals are plotting against him, and powerful outside forces are moving into Central Florida, turning his hard‑won refuge into a target.

Conflicted Home

by A American

2017

News of nuclear strikes and foreign troops on U.S. soil shatters any illusion that Morgan’s troubles are merely local. As fallout fears and armored columns reshape the map, he and his friends are dragged into missions far from home that could cost them everything they’ve built.

Hope

by A American

2016

While Morgan struggles in Florida, this companion novel follows Neal on the opposite side of a shattered America. Months of hardship and loss have left him drifting through a harsh new world, until a chance meeting on a desert highway offers one last reason to keep going.

Democide

by A American

2016

In the second Charlie’s Requiem story, the new regime shows just how little individual lives matter. As roundups, disappearances, and quiet killings spread through the city, Charlie and her small group must choose between keeping their heads down or confronting a system built on fear.

Cry Havoc

by A American

2016

Set against a backdrop of rigged elections, economic ‘fixes,’ and creeping restrictions on everyday life, Cry Havoc imagines how quickly faith in the system can evaporate. As banking freezes and new gun controls hit, ordinary people are forced to decide what they’ll tolerate—and what they won’t.

Avenging Home

by A American

2016

A bombing at the market and a brutal attack on his daughter drag Morgan Carter back into open conflict. Old enemies are stronger than ever, and as his community braces for another round of bloodshed, Morgan is determined to drive the last threats out of his valley for good.

Enforcing Home

by A American

2015

Life in Lake County is fragile but holding—until Morgan Carter is unexpectedly made sheriff. Suddenly he’s juggling scarce resources, old grudges, and the lingering presence of federal agents, trying to enforce real justice without becoming another heavy‑handed boss in a ruined world.

Charlie's Requiem

by A American

2015

Hard‑driving sales rep Charlie is on the road when an EMP plunges the country into darkness. Stranded with two strangers, she has to fight through collapsing suburbs, violent gangs, and power‑hungry officials to reach the safety of a friend’s remote farm before the city consumes them.

Resurrecting Home

by A American

2014

Morgan Carter and his neighbors finally begin building something that feels like a community—gardens, defenses, even a bit of normal routine. When a massive wildfire bears down on their settlement, they’re forced to decide what’s worth saving and how much they’re willing to sacrifice.

Forsaking Home

by A American

2014

Having weathered the first weeks after the grid failure, Morgan thinks reuniting his family will ease the pressure. Instead he’s pulled into a deadly clash between desperate refugees, a predatory government camp, and the small band of allies willing to risk everything to shut it down.

Surviving Home

by A American

2013

Back with his wife and daughters after that brutal walk, Morgan Carter knows the worst is still ahead. Neighbors are hungry, tempers are rising, and as word of a wider national disaster leaks in, he must defend his home without starting a war on his street.

Escaping Home

by A American

2013

Martial law, secretive camps, and roving gangs turn Morgan Carter’s quiet community into a powder keg. When government ‘refugee’ centers start to look more like prisons, he and his friends face a wrenching choice: dig in and fight, or abandon their homesteads and disappear.

Going Home

by A American

2012

When an EMP wipes out the power grid, survivalist Morgan Carter finds himself 250 miles from home with a dead car and only his bug‑out bag. His trek across a collapsing Florida becomes a test of skills, loyalty, and how far he’ll go for family.

Where should I start?

If you want the core Survivalist story: Going HomeSurviving HomeEscaping HomeForsaking HomeResurrecting Home.
If you like small‑town rebuilding and tactics: Enforcing HomeAvenging HomeHome InvasionConflicted HomeHome Coming.
If you want all things Morgan Carter: read the above in order, then continue with Engineering HomeExploring Home.
If you’re curious about side stories and standalones: HopeCry HavocRamblin' ManDecline and Decay.
If you want the grittier urban spin‑off: Charlie's RequiemDemocideResistanceRetributionContagion.

Author bio

A. American is the pen name of Chris Weatherman, a lifelong prepper who turned his what‑if scenarios into some of the most widely read survival fiction of the last decade.

He started getting serious about preparedness in the early 1990s, long before it was a buzzword. An avid outdoorsman, he spent years learning how to live off the land—identifying edible and medicinal plants, practicing primitive fire‑making, and testing gear in the woods rather than just reading about it.

Before writing full time he worked close to the thing his novels so often take away: the power grid. For nearly twenty years he helped build power plants and did line work for utility companies, eventually supervising the commissioning and start‑up of new projects. That hands‑on experience with how electricity is generated and moved shows up throughout his books.

Weatherman’s path to publishing wasn’t mapped out in advance. He began posting chapters of what would become Going Home on an online forum, mostly to entertain other preppers. The response was immediate and intense, and those early readers pushed him to finish the story and bring Morgan Carter’s 250‑mile journey across a blacked‑out Florida into print.

The result grew into The Survivalist series, which follows Morgan and his family as they adapt to a world where the grid has failed and help isn’t coming. Middle entries like Forsaking Home and Resurrecting Home reached national bestseller lists, and the series as a whole has sold well over a million copies, spawning spin‑offs, companion novels, and audiobooks.

Along the way he has co‑written projects such as Hope with G. Michael Hopf and the Charlie’s Requiem books with Walt Browning, as well as non‑fiction like Decline and Decay, which distills decades of thinking about real‑world preparedness.

Away from the keyboard, Weatherman teaches and learns in equal measure. He travels to preparedness expos and small local events around the country, signing books, swapping ideas with readers, and working with instructors and students on everything from homestead layout to security planning.

His love of hard skills carried him onto national television as a contestant in the first season of the survival series Alone, where he put many of the same techniques from his books to work under real pressure.

Today he lives in the southeastern United States with his family, not far from national forest land, where he still hunts, fishes, and tests new gear. For him, the novels are another way to run the scenarios all the way out—so readers can think through the bad days before they ever arrive.

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