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Jan 22, 2018 · A complete list of the best post apocalyptic books, including old classics, popular dystopian fiction, best sellers, and lesser-known post-apocalyptic books worth reading.
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) Suzanne Collins.
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Suzanne Collins.
- Divergent (Divergent, #1) Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Suzanne Collins.
- Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica. ‘In the end, meat is meat. It doesn’t matter where it came from.’ That quote is enough to leave any reader hooked on what Bazterrica’s post-apocalyptic future holds, and it is so much more than you can imagine.
- Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Written before the pandemic, Leave The World Behind still manages to capture every emotion of the panic and uncertainty the world seems gripped in today.
- The Memory Police by Yogo Ogawa. Memory serves as our most important tool for keeping in touch with our past. But what happens when you can’t trust that memory anymore?
- When The Rain Stops by J.S. Sutton. Sutton’s new novel takes on a question few can debate and even fewer target head on: climate change. In a futuristic world destroyed by climate change and nuclear war, humanity lives in a world in the clouds.
- Earth Abides. by George R. Stewart – 1949. After being bitten by a rattlesnake in the mountains above Berkeley, California, Isherwood Williams gets a measles-like disease.
- The Road. by Corman McCarthy – 2006. A nameless son and father wander a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth.
- A Canticle for Leibowitz. by Walter Miller Jr. – 1959. This is Miller’s first and only novel, but he didn’t hold back: it spans thousands of years, chronicling the rebuilding of civilization after an apocalyptic event.
- Blindness. by José Saramago – 1995. By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness,” which spares no one.
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