Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,761 members
577 reviews
3.9
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Blindness
by José Saramago
14,582 members
431 reviews
4.1
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller
13,224 members
341 reviews
3.9
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
10,400 members
672 reviews
3.9
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The Children of Men
by P. D. James
6,446 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
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On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
5,395 members
192 reviews
3.9
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The Postman
by David Brin
4,533 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
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Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
4,061 members
129 reviews
3.9
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One Second After
by William R. Forstchen
2,774 members
153 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Dies the Fire
by S. M. Stirling
2,669 members
94 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,783 members
1,509 reviews
4.1
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
17,486 members
763 reviews
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The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
15,967 members
399 reviews
½ 3.7
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Cell
by Stephen King
13,008 members
280 reviews
½ 3.4
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,440 members
316 reviews
4.1
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The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
8,160 members
382 reviews
3.9
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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
by Tim LaHaye
8,052 members
130 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
6,926 members
322 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Stand
by Stephen King
5,668 members
123 reviews
½ 4.3
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I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
5,566 members
214 reviews
4
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Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
5,487 members
156 reviews
4
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Y: The Last Man Vol. 01: Unmanned
by Brian K. Vaughan
4,003 members
115 reviews
4
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The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3,784 members
118 reviews
½ 3.7
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Planet of the Apes
by Pierre Boulle
3,243 members
85 reviews
3.8
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The Brief History of the Dead
by Kevin Brockmeier
2,720 members
181 reviews
½ 3.6
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In the Country of Last Things
by Paul Auster
1,995 members
29 reviews
3.8
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Empire
by Orson Scott Card
1,663 members
62 reviews
3.2
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Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
1,647 members
57 reviews
3.9
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Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,478 members
28 reviews
4.2
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Clay's Ark
by Octavia E. Butler
1,436 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
1,113 members
114 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Book of Dave: a revelation of the recent past and the distant future
by Will Self
1,102 members
27 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Stone Gods
by Jeanette Winterson
1,099 members
46 reviews
½ 3.5
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World Made By Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
1,055 members
56 reviews
½ 3.5
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Flood
by Stephen Baxter
1,035 members
46 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
1,029 members
121 reviews
3.9
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A Friend of the Earth
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
1,025 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Pesthouse
by Jim Crace
946 members
43 reviews
½ 3.5
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Far North
by Marcel Theroux
665 members
53 reviews
3.8
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Fiskadoro
by Denis Johnson
623 members
7 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Execution Channel
by Ken MacLeod
581 members
26 reviews
½ 3.5
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Sleepless
by Charlie Huston
518 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Things That Keep Us Here
by Carla Buckley
456 members
53 reviews
4
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The Witch of Hebron
by James Howard Kunstler
317 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
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Salvation City
by Sigrid Nunez
291 members
37 reviews
3.2
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The War After Armageddon
by Ralph Peters
201 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
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Darkness & Dawn
by Andre Norton
171 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Suicide Collectors
by David Oppegaard
171 members
15 reviews
3.2
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Summer of the Apocalypse
by James Van Pelt
158 members
7 reviews
3.8
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The Island at the End of the World
by Sam Taylor
154 members
19 reviews
3.2
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Ultimatum
by Matthew Glass
148 members
13 reviews
3.2
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Snowfall
by Mitchell Smith
117 members
3 reviews
3.2
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Kingdom River
by Mitchell Smith
86 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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Moonrise
by Mitchell Smith
71 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
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Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire
by Lee Konstantinou
62 members
6 reviews
3.2
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Buyout: A Novel
by Alexander Irvine
47 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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But Not for Long
by Michelle Wildgen
47 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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