apocalypse/post-apocalypse reading. anyone?

[tyaca]

i really like books in which most of the world's population have been wiped out.

not bothered by genre, happy to read YA and kids books. any ideas?

My list so far...

Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake, and Year of the Flood.

Stephen King: The Stand
Jean Ure: Plague
PD James: Children of Men

God, there must be loads more. When i was a teenager, the apocalypse stuff was all nuclear holocaust. YA I've read recently has all been environmental.

Recommend me some more!

Me too. I think that it just wasn't what they were expecting from Stephen King. Also maybe because it was technically a zombie book?

ooh ooh ooh also the Shadow Histories chronicles - they are good I reckon

Just marking my place really. Love these kinds of book, have read The Handmaidens Tale, but glad of some more to read.
Was The Road made into a film recently, or was that totally different?

Maggie Gee - The Ice People is good too.

Yes, same Road

or even..The Time Machine by HGWells
and was Soylent Green (film with Charlton Heston) ever a book?
Under the Skin by MFaber v.v.frightening, but furry creatures post apocalyspse coming up from the earth beneath to kidnap us...

Road/Chrysalids all excellent

for YA, there's The Hunger Games, which is set in Post-apocalyptic America.
It's brilliant.

there's also Life as We Knew it by Susan Pfeffer - where an asteroid hits the moon and messes up the earth. The Dead and the Gone is the same disaster but told from America instead of the UK.

soylent green was 'Make Room! Make Room!' wasn't it?

I hated Cell - thought it was very boring and unoriginal (and I am a massive King fan).

I also didn't think a great deal of The Road.

Thanks for this thread! Nothing to add - although I am a huge fan of The Road, The Pesthouse, and How I Live Now.

Great thread - just my sort of thing!

I loved The Road, and am not usually one for muscular masculine writers. Z for Zachariah is excellent. Reread Children of the Dust recently - god, it's disturbing!

I don't think anyone has mentioned The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall - about a female paramilitary organisation in the Lake District. Not a classic, but worth a read.

I will keep pushing Swastika Night as one of the best early feminist dystopia fiction

set very far into the future many centuries after Hitler won the war and where women are not considered human

I love these books! I devoured the Plague books, Children of the Dust, Brother in the Land, all of them. And Empty World is one of those that really stays with you, I'd love to read it again but have never found a copy.

I have a canticle for Liebewitz but am finding it very difficult to get into.

I am Legend was a much better book than movie.

Vampire Earth series on amazon

Read The Passage www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1103760-Man-flu-Why-dont-you-just-man-up.
It is so so good and reminds me of Stephen King's The Stand.

Opps wrong link sorry