The 10 Greatest Apocalyptic Novels Of All Time

[GeneralCinema]

I don't know how accurate this list is, but I stumbled across it and decided to post it for anyone looking to expand their library.

World War Z

Blindness

The Road

The Postman

Oryx and Crake

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Alas, Babylon

Lucifer's Hammer

Swan Song

On the Beach

Z for Zachariah

I Am Legend

[PumpkinKing]

The Road is the best novel I have ever read. The emotional wallop it packs is well worth the time you invest in reading it, as is the poetic language he incorporates. Cormac McCarthy is a genius without peer in contemperary literature.

[BadKitty]

I really want to read The Road. 

I think no list of apocalyptic novels would be complete without Frank Herbert's White Plague.  That novel creeped the shite out of me. And where is The Stand?

Also, I'd think Stephen King's Gunslinger series would count.  The books were very hit and miss, but the first book at least was pretty fabulous.  Not sure it would make a top 10 list for me, but it would be up there.

[BQueen]

Cannot recommend Swan Song enough.

I refuse to read The Road because I just know it will leave me depressed.

[BadKitty]

Cannot recommend Swan Song enough.

I refuse to read The Road because I just know it will leave me depressed.

I won't read it because of the kid thing.  Sigh.  Having a kid just sucks the fun out of some stuff, like reading about kids nearly getting eaten by post-apocalyptic cannibals.  I still half regret ever seeing Nobody Knows, because it was a completely brilliant movie but should have been rated NP-C, for "no parents admitted without a counselor." 

[GiveMeGore]

I won't read it because of the kid thing.  Sigh.  Having a kid just sucks the fun out of some stuff, like reading about kids nearly getting eaten by post-apocalyptic cannibals.  I still half regret ever seeing Nobody Knows, because it was a completely brilliant movie but should have been rated NP-C, for "no parents admitted without a counselor." 

check out the movie Baby Blues