A post not so much about food but…. a list of apocalyptic fiction!

Apocalyptic fiction is one of my favorite genres of fiction. Checking out this list from Powell’s I have come to the conclusion – sadly – that I have not read hardly any at all! I’m surprised based on what I have read that I even know this is a genre. hehe

Here’s Powell’s ’50 list’ of Apocalyptic fiction:

1. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
2. A Gift Upon the Shore by M.K. Wren
3. A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
4. A Messiah at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
5. Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
6. Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
7. Battle Circle Trilogy by Piers Anthony
8. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
9. The Burning World by J.G. Ballard
10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
11. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
12. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
13. Destiny’s Road by Larry Niven
14. Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
15. Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick
16. The Drought by J.G Ballard
17. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
18. Earth Abides by George R Stewart
19. Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
20. False Dawn by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
21. Famine by Graham Masterton
22. Farnham’s Freehold by Robert A Heinlein
23. The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card
24. Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
25. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
26. The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
27. Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven
28. Nature’s End by James Kunetka & Whitley Strieber
29. Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Reuter Leiber
30. Night of the Triffids by Simon Clark
31. One Second After by William R Forstchen
32. The Penultimate Truth by Philip K Dick
33. Plague by Graham Masterton
34. The Postman by David Brin
35. The Protectors War by S.M. Stirling
36. Pulling Through by Dean Ing
37. The Rift by Walter J Williams
38. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
39. The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
40. Shades Children by Garth Nix
41. The Shore of Women by Pamela Sargent
42. The Stand by Stephen King
43. Steel Beach by John Varley
44. Swan Song by Robert R McCammon
45. Thunder and Roses by Theodore Strugeon
46. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
47. The White Plague by Frank Herbert
48. The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
49. The Wind from Nowhere by J.G. Ballard
50. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Okay the ones in bold I’ve read. I’m ashamed. Time to get my apocalyptic reading done. Maybe I meant movies earlier when I said “they’re my favorite”.

There were two others that I’ve read that weren’t on the list that I would consider apocalyptic fiction. The Passage by Justin Cronin and ?? I just realized I have no idea the other book’s name. Boo!

All I know is I picked the book up at a hostel in Dublin this spring, read it and gave it away by the time we arrived in Youghal. Boo again!

Anybody else like reading this stuff?? 

xoxo