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My list of Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. I know there are many others, but these are the books I have read and can vouch for.
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message 1: by Howard (new)

Howard white I am swiping a copy of this well thought out list for my own use at my public library . There are a lot of titles not usually mentioned on this type of PA novels lists. Thanks.


message 2: by jw (last edited Jan 26, 2015 09:16AM) (new)

jw No Damnation Alley or Night of the Long Knives? What about a Boy and his Dog? These are more of the classic SF genre, but surely apocalyptic and recommended for anyone interested in such tales. The Broken Empire series from Mark Lawrence was compelling as well, though a bit cliche in places.


message 3: by Cygor (new)

Cygor Borg Such a nice choices, i like the list


message 4: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jan 17, 2017 02:36AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Maybe this will help some voters.


message 5: by Andrew (new)

Andrew Ritenour Ape and Essence Huxley wrote a post-apocalyptic story.


message 6: by Leonard (new)

Leonard Ratliff This is undoubtedly the WORST vetted list I've ever seen, seriously.

Whoever is in charge of this garbage needs to SERIOUSLY reconsider whether they have any business being it's curator and if it's strictly based on review scores, then there needs to be a restructing of that as well.

When books like "The remaining", "The dog stars" and "Life as we knew it" are ranked MUCH higher than books like "1984", "Do androids dream of electric sheep", "The war of the worlds", "I am legend", "Parable of the sower" and "The postman" on a post apocalyptic list, there is something so seriously and fundamentally wrong with it that the whole thing needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up.

I'm completely done with GoodReads as this is ONLY the latest example. There needs to be a minimum requirement showing you have at least basic intelligence before being allowed to leave a rating on any given book so that things like "I liked the city the story was in" doesn't get the opportunity to be a reason why a book gets a five star rating. Pathetic.


message 7: by Leonard (new)

Leonard Ratliff BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) wrote: "Maybe this will help some voters."

I doubt it. The problem is that GoodReads allows members that struggle with tying their shoe laces or breathing to vote on rankings when the closest they ever came to reading the book was looking at the picture on the cover, OR they used criteria like "The main character had red hair like mine" so the book gets five starts. As I mentioned in my comments below, it's pathetic and it's made this place a laughing stock.


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