 | Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse by Stephen King
Buy new: £8.03 / Used from: £7.32 Excellent collection of authors here to start you off.
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 | Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Buy used from: £3.00 A very underrated book. The sequel is good too.
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 | On The Beach (Vintage Classics) by Nevil Shute
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £4.53 A classic from the guy who also wrote A Town Like Alice.
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 | The Death of Grass (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Christopher
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £2.80 Written in the 50's, this reprint is a timely reminder to us all of messing around with nature.
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 | The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Wyndham
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £3.08 Another classic, but the more recent 'sequel' was very disappointing.
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £2.50 I admit I was initially put off by the hype, but for once the hype was justified. Bleak but beautiful.
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 | Age Of Misrule: World's End, Darkest Hour, Always Forever (Gollancz S.F.) by Mark Chadbourn
Buy new: £7.22 / Used from: £3.01 OK, it's got dragons and magic, but is set in the UK 'today' and is a brilliant read - this is the full trilogy in one volume.
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 | Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Buy new: £9.23 / Used from: £10.48 It's being reissued!
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 | Flood by Stephen Baxter
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £3.74 How the earth drowns and how humanity deals with it - excellent!
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 | Ark by Stephen Baxter
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £7.02 Sequel to Flood and the story continues into space and on earth
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 | The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Speculative fiction or alternate history... take your pick. Asks "How would our world have developed without Europe and European culture?" Currently midway through and so far it is gripping.
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 | The Stand by Stephen King
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.56 The best book he has ever written!
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Not strictly speaking post-apocalyptic but chilling nonetheless.
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 | The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £3.00 Is this what we face? An early one of his books.
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.69 Virus creates vampires leaving one man left... the Will Smith film isn't bad either.
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 | Bloodring: A Rogue Mage Novel (Rogue Mage Novels) by Faith Hunter
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.80 More magic but set in future earth controlled by scary angels.
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 | Wraeththu Omnibus by Storm Constantine
Buy new: £9.73 / Used from: £2.00 Earth is a wasteland and a new human mutation arises, the Wraeththu. Got it today and looks intriguing.
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 | The Postman by David Brin
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Forget the Kevin Costner film, this is the real thing.
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 | Z. for Zachariah (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Robert O'Brien
Buy new: £4.23 / Used from: £0.01 I read this as a teenager and it sticks out as being memorable. Maybe I should read it again?
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 | The Year of the Comet by John Christopher
Buy new: £8.43 / Used from: £6.21 On my wishlist!
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 | The Children of Men by P.D. James
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £0.50 More of a dystopian future but a great read.
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 | A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £2.14 Another classic of the genre.
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