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An End of the World Reading List

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1

by Russell Hoban

1,338 members

25 reviews

4.2

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Emily St. John Mandel

11,760 members

780 reviews

4.1

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ahef1963

3

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

3,625 members

134 reviews

4

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

82,158 members

1,274 reviews

4.2

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by José Saramago

13,055 members

390 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,015 members

773 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Albert Camus

18,529 members

249 reviews

4

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Ray Bradbury

54,040 members

1,000 reviews

4

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,432 members

1,144 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,769 members

308 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Children of Men

5,812 members

200 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

40,206 members

1,587 reviews

4.2

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Connie Willis

7,977 members

375 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Margaret Atwood

16,989 members

538 reviews

3.9

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

15

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

8,147 members

239 reviews

4.1

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,237 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,488 members

214 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

2,560 members

176 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,611 members

70 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin

665 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The City of Ember

by Jeanne DuPrau

10,741 members

412 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

3,572 members

96 reviews

4.1

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

64,681 members

3,488 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

24

by Suzanne Collins

49,281 members

1,793 reviews

4.2

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

25

4,898 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

26

The Prophet of Yonwood

by Jeanne DuPrau

3,116 members

66 reviews

3.2

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

27

9,640 members

293 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

28

6,323 members

198 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

29

3,414 members

158 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

30

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

by John Joseph Adams

1,552 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

31

Children of the Dust

by Louise Lawrence

288 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

32

by Cormac McCarthy

34,497 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

33

892 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

34

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

7,302 members

363 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

35

MaddAddam: A Novel

by Margaret Atwood

3,546 members

154 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

36

3,998 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

37

4,163 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

38

Tomorrow, When the War Began

by John Marsden

3,346 members

123 reviews

4

Member: CristaNoel

39

Z for Zachariah

by Robert C. O'Brien

1,814 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

40

by Naomi Alderman

4,777 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

41

The Gone-Away World

by Nick Harkaway

2,036 members

103 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

42

The Long Tomorrow

by Leigh Brackett

841 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

43

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

by Kate Wilhelm

1,786 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

44

by William Gibson

2,425 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

45

When the Wind Blows

by Raymond Briggs

695 members

20 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: CristaNoel

46

The People of Sparks

by Jeanne DuPrau

5,046 members

117 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

47

The Diamond of Darkhold

by Jeanne DuPrau

2,311 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

48

The Wool Trilogy

68 members

1 review

4.2

Member: CristaNoel

49

Predator's Gold

by Philip Reeve

1,588 members

34 reviews

4

Member: CristaNoel

50

by Philip Reeve

3,688 members

123 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

51

Infernal Devices

by Philip Reeve

1,326 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

52

A Darkling Plain

by Philip Reeve

1,183 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: CristaNoel

53

by Suzanne Collins

45,353 members

1,742 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

54

Y: The Last Man Omnibus

by Brian K. Vaughan

73 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

55

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster

676 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

56

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

3,368 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

57

by George R. Stewart

3,642 members

115 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

58

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,745 members

683 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

59

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

1,657 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

60

After the Flood

by P. C. Jersild

119 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: CristaNoel

61

The Memoirs of a Survivor

by Doris Lessing

1,185 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

62

by Tatyana Tolstaya

827 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

63

297 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

About This List

Started: CristaNoel
March 2020
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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