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An End of the World Reading List

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1

by Russell Hoban

1,373 members

26 reviews

4.2

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Emily St. John Mandel

12,294 members

791 reviews

4.1

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ahef1963

3

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

3,856 members

138 reviews

4

3 Members: yarb, CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

84,390 members

1,289 reviews

4.2

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by José Saramago

13,404 members

398 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

55,263 members

782 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Albert Camus

18,994 members

250 reviews

4

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Ray Bradbury

55,636 members

1,023 reviews

4

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

43,798 members

1,166 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

12,083 members

315 reviews

3.9

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Children of Men

5,925 members

202 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

41,536 members

1,602 reviews

4.2

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Connie Willis

8,114 members

376 reviews

4.1

3 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Margaret Atwood

17,331 members

543 reviews

3.9

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

15

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

8,593 members

242 reviews

4.1

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,393 members

306 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,766 members

220 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

2,590 members

178 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,665 members

69 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin

714 members

32 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The City of Ember

by Jeanne DuPrau

11,113 members

412 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

3,781 members

97 reviews

4.1

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

66,752 members

3,503 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

24

by Suzanne Collins

51,106 members

1,808 reviews

4.2

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

25

5,009 members

179 reviews

3.9

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

26

The Prophet of Yonwood

by Jeanne DuPrau

3,251 members

67 reviews

3.2

2 Members: CristaNoel, ManWithAnAgenda

27

10,037 members

296 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

28

6,595 members

201 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

29

3,580 members

158 reviews

3.8

2 Members: CristaNoel, ahef1963

30

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

by John Joseph Adams

1,588 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

31

Children of the Dust

by Louise Lawrence

295 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

32

by Cormac McCarthy

35,403 members

1,419 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

33

905 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

34

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

7,465 members

364 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

35

by Margaret Atwood

3,668 members

155 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

36

4,052 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

37

4,241 members

94 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

38

Tomorrow, When the War Began

by John Marsden

3,425 members

122 reviews

4

Member: CristaNoel

39

Z for Zachariah

by Robert C. O'Brien

1,868 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

40

by Naomi Alderman

5,016 members

261 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

41

The Gone-Away World

by Nick Harkaway

2,063 members

105 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

42

The Long Tomorrow

by Leigh Brackett

863 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

43

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

by Kate Wilhelm

1,827 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

44

by William Gibson

2,552 members

97 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

45

When the Wind Blows

by Raymond Briggs

714 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: CristaNoel

46

The People of Sparks

by Jeanne DuPrau

5,224 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

47

The Diamond of Darkhold

by Jeanne DuPrau

2,424 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

48

The Wool Trilogy

70 members

1 review

4.2

Member: CristaNoel

49

Predator's Gold

by Philip Reeve

1,658 members

35 reviews

4

Member: CristaNoel

50

by Philip Reeve

3,824 members

125 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

51

Infernal Devices

by Philip Reeve

1,376 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

52

A Darkling Plain

by Philip Reeve

1,226 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: CristaNoel

53

by Suzanne Collins

47,026 members

1,757 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

54

Y: The Last Man Omnibus

by Brian K. Vaughan

79 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: CristaNoel

55

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster

712 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

56

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

3,504 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CristaNoel

57

by George R. Stewart

3,721 members

119 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

58

by David Mitchell

18,127 members

684 reviews

4.1

Member: CristaNoel

59

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

1,690 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: CristaNoel

60

After the Flood

by P. C. Jersild

120 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: CristaNoel

61

The Memoirs of a Survivor

by Doris Lessing

1,206 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CristaNoel

62

by Tatyana Tolstaya

854 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CristaNoel

63

299 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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