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An End of the World Reading List

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1

by Russell Hoban

1,315 members

24 reviews

4.2

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Emily St. John Mandel

11,055 members

756 reviews

4.1

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ahef1963

3

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

3,424 members

125 reviews

4

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

79,945 members

1,246 reviews

4.2

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by José Saramago

12,761 members

378 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,698 members

754 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Albert Camus

18,093 members

236 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Ray Bradbury

52,347 members

971 reviews

4

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

41,354 members

1,116 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,461 members

305 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Children of Men

5,681 members

198 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

38,884 members

1,559 reviews

4.2

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Connie Willis

7,809 members

369 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Margaret Atwood

16,884 members

526 reviews

3.9

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

15

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

7,634 members

222 reviews

4.1

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,081 members

297 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,237 members

209 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

2,522 members

174 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,533 members

68 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin

628 members

31 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The City of Ember

by Jeanne DuPrau

10,449 members

406 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

3,394 members

92 reviews

4.1

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

62,247 members

3,449 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

24

by Suzanne Collins

47,091 members

1,770 reviews

4.2

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

25

4,803 members

174 reviews

3.9

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

26

The Prophet of Yonwood

by Jeanne DuPrau

2,989 members

65 reviews

3.2

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

27

9,302 members

289 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

28

6,071 members

196 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

29

3,244 members

155 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

30

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

by John Joseph Adams

1,508 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

31

Children of the Dust

by Louise Lawrence

285 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

32

by Cormac McCarthy

33,627 members

1,388 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

33

880 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

34

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

7,152 members

360 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

35

by Margaret Atwood

3,424 members

152 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

36

3,945 members

246 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

37

4,095 members

88 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

38

Tomorrow, When the War Began

by John Marsden

3,271 members

122 reviews

4

Member: CristaNoel

39

Z for Zachariah

by Robert C. O'Brien

1,776 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

40

by Naomi Alderman

4,473 members

239 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

41

The Gone-Away World

by Nick Harkaway

1,978 members

102 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

42

The Long Tomorrow

by Leigh Brackett

811 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

43

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

by Kate Wilhelm

1,747 members

65 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

44

by William Gibson

2,280 members

93 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

45

When the Wind Blows

by Raymond Briggs

670 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: CristaNoel

46

The People of Sparks

by Jeanne DuPrau

4,876 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

47

The Diamond of Darkhold

by Jeanne DuPrau

2,219 members

63 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

48

The Wool Trilogy

66 members

1 review

4.2

Member: CristaNoel

49

Predator's Gold

by Philip Reeve

1,533 members

34 reviews

4

Member: CristaNoel

50

by Philip Reeve

3,536 members

118 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

51

Infernal Devices

by Philip Reeve

1,275 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

52

A Darkling Plain

by Philip Reeve

1,134 members

32 reviews

4.2

Member: CristaNoel

53

by Suzanne Collins

43,667 members

1,718 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

54

Y: The Last Man Omnibus

by Brian K. Vaughan

65 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

55

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster

644 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

56

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

3,237 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

57

by George R. Stewart

3,558 members

114 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

58

by David Mitchell

17,287 members

671 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

59

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

1,629 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

60

After the Flood

by P. C. Jersild

117 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: CristaNoel

61

The Memoirs of a Survivor

by Doris Lessing

1,165 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

62

by Tatyana Tolstaya

807 members

26 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

63

288 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

About This List

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

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