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Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
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September 2010
Compiled by Lisa Colcord
of the Glendale Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Atwood, Margaret Oryx and Crake (2003)
Atwood, Margaret The Year of the Flood (2009)
Barnes, John Mother of Storms (1994)
Baxter, Stephen Flood (2008)
Bell, Alden The Reapers are the Angels (2010)
Brin, David The Postman (1985)
Brockmeier, Kevin The Brief History of the Dead (2006)
Brooks, Max World War Z (2006)
Buckley, Carla The Things that Keep Us Here (2010)
Butler, Octavia Clay's Ark (1984)
Christopher, John The Death of Grass (1958)
Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games (2008) Catching Fire (2009) Mockingjay (2010)
Crace, Jim The Pesthouse (2007)
Cronin, Justin The Passage (2010)
Diamond, Emily Raiders' Ransom (2009) (J, most of the world underwater)
Dick, Phillip K., The Man in the High Castle (1968)
Dickinson, Peter Z for Zachariah (1975)
Dunkle, Clare The Sky Inside (2008) The Walls Have Eyes (2009)
DuPrau, Jeanne City of Ember (2003) People of Sparks (2004) Prophet of Yonwood (2006) Diamond of Darkhold (2008)
Forstchen, William One Second After (2009)
Frank, Pat Alas, Babylon (1959)
Grant, Michael Gone (2008) Hunger (2009) Lies (2010) Plague (2011)
Grant, Mira Feed (2010) Blackout (2011) Deadline (2012)
Harkaway, Nick Gone Away World (2008)
Hegland, Jean Into the Forest (1998)
Heinlein, Robert Farnham's Freehold (1964)
Hoban, Russell Riddley Walker (1980)
Huston, Charlie Sleepless (2010)
Johnston, Anthony Wasteland (2009)
King, Stephen The Stand (1978)
King, Stephen Under the Dome (2009)
Knight, E. E. Vampire Earth series: Way of the Wolf (2001) Choice of the Cat (2004) Tale of the Thunderbolt (2005) Valentine's Rising (2005) Valentine's Exile (2006) Valentine's Resolve (2007) Fall with Honor (2008) Winter Duty (2009) March in Country (2010)
Kunstler, James World Made by Hand (2008) The Witch of Hebron (2010)
Matheson, Richard I Am Legend (1954)
McCarthy, Cormac The Road (2006)
McDevitt, Jack Eternity Road (1988)
Miller Jr, Walter M. A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
Ness, Patrick Chaos Walking Trilogy: The Knife of never Letting Go (2008) The Ask and the Answer (2009) Monsters of Men (2010)
Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournell Lucifer's Hammer (1977)
Nunez, Sigrid Salvation City (2010)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth Life As We Knew It (2006) The Dead and the Gone (2008) This World We Live in (2010)
Pow, Tom The Pack (2006)
Rawles, James Wesley Patriots (1998)
Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now (2004) (YA novel set in an occupied London, near future isn't exactly post apocalypse but I think it is a great read-alike for The Hunger Games in tone and action.)
Ryan, Carrie Dead Tossed Waves (2010)
Ryan, Carrie The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009)
Shute, Nevil On the Beach (1957)
Smith, Mitchell The Snowfall trilogy: Snowfall (2002) Kingdom River (2003) Moonrise (2004)
Stewart, George Earth Abides (1949)
Stirling, S. M. Dies the Fire (2004)
Theroux, Marcel Far North (2010)
Vaughan, Brian Y: The Last Man series (starting in 2003)
Westerfeld, Scott The Uglies Trilogy: Uglies (2005) Pretties (2005) Specials (2006) Extras (2007)
Wren, M.K. A Gift Upon the Shore (1990)
Wyndham, John Day of the Triffids (1951)
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