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Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

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1

by Margaret Atwood

16,990 members

538 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, bismarckfairy

2

by José Saramago

13,055 members

390 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, bismarckfairy

3

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,769 members

308 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, bismarckfairy

4

by Justin Cronin

9,408 members

635 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, bismarckfairy

5

The Children of Men

5,812 members

200 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, bismarckfairy

6

4,898 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: bismarckfairy, littlefalls

7

4,163 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: bismarckfairy, littlefalls

8

by George R. Stewart

3,642 members

115 reviews

3.9

2 Members: bismarckfairy, littlefalls

9

by S. M. Stirling

2,478 members

87 reviews

3.8

2 Members: bismarckfairy, littlefalls

10

One Second After

by William R. Forstchen

2,388 members

139 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: bismarckfairy, littlefalls

11

by Cormac McCarthy

34,498 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

Member: bismarckfairy

12

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15,506 members

713 reviews

4

Member: bismarckfairy

13

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,840 members

357 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bismarckfairy

14

by Stephen King

11,633 members

263 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bismarckfairy

15

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

8,147 members

239 reviews

4.1

Member: bismarckfairy

16

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days

7,352 members

120 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bismarckfairy

17

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

7,303 members

363 reviews

3.9

Member: bismarckfairy

18

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,237 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bismarckfairy

19

4,950 members

144 reviews

4

Member: bismarckfairy

20

by Richard Matheson

4,838 members

190 reviews

4

Member: bismarckfairy

21

by Stephen King

4,598 members

101 reviews

4.2

Member: bismarckfairy

22

Y: The Last Man Vol. 01: Unmanned

by Brian K. Vaughan

3,599 members

107 reviews

4

Member: bismarckfairy

23

The Years of Rice and Salt

by Kim Stanley Robinson

3,488 members

106 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bismarckfairy

24

Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

2,796 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: bismarckfairy

25

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

2,560 members

176 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bismarckfairy

26

In the Country of Last Things

1,845 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bismarckfairy

27

Into the Forest

by Jean Hegland

1,539 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: bismarckfairy

28

by Orson Scott Card

1,537 members

60 reviews

3.2

Member: bismarckfairy

29

by Russell Hoban

1,338 members

25 reviews

4.2

Member: bismarckfairy

30

by Octavia E. Butler

1,233 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bismarckfairy

31

The Book of Dave: a revelation of the recent past and the distant future

1,038 members

26 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bismarckfairy

32

by Ninni Holmqvist

1,035 members

106 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bismarckfairy

33

by Jeanette Winterson

1,016 members

44 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bismarckfairy

34

World Made By Hand

by James Howard Kunstler

974 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bismarckfairy

35

A Friend of the Earth

960 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bismarckfairy

36

The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel

954 members

114 reviews

3.9

Member: bismarckfairy

37

by Stephen Baxter

933 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bismarckfairy

38

892 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bismarckfairy

39

by Marcel Theroux

618 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: bismarckfairy

40

by Denis Johnson

557 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bismarckfairy

41

The Execution Channel

552 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bismarckfairy

42

by Charlie Huston

488 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: bismarckfairy

43

The Things That Keep Us Here

by Carla Buckley

433 members

52 reviews

4

Member: bismarckfairy

44

The Witch of Hebron

by James Howard Kunstler

281 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bismarckfairy

45

by Sigrid Nunez

275 members

37 reviews

3.2

Member: bismarckfairy

46

The War After Armageddon

by Ralph Peters

179 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bismarckfairy

47

The Suicide Collectors

by David Oppegaard

161 members

13 reviews

3.2

Member: bismarckfairy

48

Darkness & Dawn

by Andre Norton

157 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bismarckfairy

49

The Island at the End of the World

151 members

20 reviews

3.2

Member: bismarckfairy

50

Summer of the Apocalypse

by James Van Pelt

149 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: bismarckfairy

51

by Matthew Glass

139 members

12 reviews

3.2

Member: bismarckfairy

52

by Mitchell Smith

111 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: bismarckfairy

53

by Mitchell Smith

84 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: bismarckfairy

54

by Mitchell Smith

68 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bismarckfairy

55

Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire

by Lee Konstantinou

57 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bismarckfairy

56

Buyout: A Novel

by Alexander Irvine

48 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: bismarckfairy

57

But Not for Long

by Michelle Wildgen

47 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bismarckfairy

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Started: bismarckfairy
February 2016
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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