Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,836 members
577 reviews
3.9
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Blindness
by José Saramago
14,628 members
432 reviews
4.1
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller
13,262 members
343 reviews
3.9
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
10,428 members
673 reviews
3.9
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The Children of Men
by P. D. James
6,468 members
215 reviews
½ 3.6
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On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
5,414 members
192 reviews
3.9
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The Postman
by David Brin
4,543 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
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Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
4,077 members
129 reviews
3.9
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One Second After
by William R. Forstchen
2,789 members
153 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Dies the Fire
by S. M. Stirling
2,680 members
95 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,977 members
1,513 reviews
4.1
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
17,559 members
763 reviews
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The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
16,056 members
402 reviews
½ 3.7
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Cell
by Stephen King
13,077 members
280 reviews
½ 3.4
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,570 members
318 reviews
4.1
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The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
8,192 members
380 reviews
3.9
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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
by Tim LaHaye
8,089 members
131 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
6,957 members
325 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Stand
by Stephen King
5,701 members
123 reviews
½ 4.3
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I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
5,592 members
215 reviews
4
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Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
5,508 members
156 reviews
4
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Y: The Last Man Vol. 01: Unmanned
by Brian K. Vaughan
4,017 members
115 reviews
4
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The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3,800 members
118 reviews
½ 3.7
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Planet of the Apes
by Pierre Boulle
3,249 members
85 reviews
3.8
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The Brief History of the Dead
by Kevin Brockmeier
2,723 members
181 reviews
½ 3.6
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In the Country of Last Things
by Paul Auster
2,006 members
29 reviews
3.8
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Empire
by Orson Scott Card
1,675 members
62 reviews
3.2
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Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
1,650 members
58 reviews
3.8
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Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,484 members
28 reviews
4.2
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Clay's Ark
by Octavia E. Butler
1,445 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
1,113 members
113 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
1,103 members
27 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Stone Gods
by Jeanette Winterson
1,101 members
46 reviews
½ 3.5
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World Made By Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
1,053 members
56 reviews
½ 3.5
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Flood
by Stephen Baxter
1,038 members
46 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
1,030 members
119 reviews
3.9
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A Friend of the Earth
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
1,028 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Pesthouse
by Jim Crace
947 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
626 members
7 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Execution Channel
by Ken MacLeod
582 members
26 reviews
½ 3.5
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Sleepless
by Charlie Huston
521 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
315 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
199 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Suicide Collectors
by David Oppegaard
172 members
15 reviews
3.2
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Darkness & Dawn
by Andre Norton
171 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Summer of the Apocalypse
by James Van Pelt
159 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
150 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
87 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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