Riddley Walker
By: Russell Hoban
4.17
Format: None pages,
In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Wal…
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1. Engine Summer
By: John Crowley
4.02
Format: 209 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Born into the community of Truthful Speakers one thousand years after the Storm, he was raised on s… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now."-John Crowley, Engine Summer
"I was proud of this small insight; I had no notion how close I was to the truth, and therefore I was as far away as ever."-John Crowley, Engine Summer
"...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd, odd it is!"-John Crowley, Engine Summer
"path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's…"-John Crowley, Engine Summer
2. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- fantasy
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
3. The Memoirs of a Survivor
By: Doris Lessing
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broke… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- post apocalyptic
- fiction
4. Pavane
By: Keith Roberts
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the year 1588, Queen Elizabeth was assassinated. That single tragedy set off a whole series of e… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
5. Riddley Walker
By: Russell Hoban
4.17
Format: None pages,
In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Wal… read more
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- speculative fiction
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6. Farnham's Freehold
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, h… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
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- fantasy
7. The Book of Skulls
By: Robert Silverberg
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, colleg… read more
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- science fiction
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8. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
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9. The Butterfly Kid
By: Chester Anderson
3.65
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is the first novel in the "Greenwich Village Trilogy." Anderson's semi-autobiographical novel … read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
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10. Waldo and Magic, Inc
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
North Power-Air was in trouble. Their aircraft had begun to crash at an alarming rate, and no one c… read more
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11. The Springs of Affection
By: Maeve Brennan
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
These masterly stories trace the patterns of love in three middle-class Dublin families, patterns a… read more
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12. Epitaph for a Spy
By: Eric Ambler
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simp… read more
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13. The Silver Metal Lover (Silver Metal Lover, #1)
By: Tanith Lee
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood.... Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking … read more
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14. The Wake
By: Paul Kingsnorth
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and bruta… read more
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15. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
By: Kate Wilhelm
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, throu… read more
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16. The Thing Itself
By: Adam Roberts
3.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale… read more
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17. The Inheritors
By: William Golding
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea.… read more
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18. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- novels
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
19. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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20. The Mirror Book
By: Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writ… read more
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21. Nobber
By: Oisín Fagan
3.58
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling s… read more
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- fiction
"I do not know what it intends to portray [...] but whatever it is that it does portray, it portrays it very mightily. It does not fit into anything, though it does at the same time seem to remind me …"-Oisín Fagan, Nobber
